Our Sally of the Sally Field Programme was molested

OMG, not our Sally. [bold]Straight men are pigs[/bold].

This actually makes me sad. Who would want to hurt someone like sweet Sally??? A straight man of course.

So she wrote this, I assume, while Burt was still alive and could defend himself? I don't know what her claims are but if she thought Burt was going to read her book it makes those claims more believable. I hate to think she just wants to sell a lot of books.

Must've helped her portray Sybil so convincingly.

Her real life stepfather was a character in "Hooper," the Brian Keith guy, which much have been difficult for her to deal with at the time.

And she called out a lot of people who are still with us, so I'm certain she'd intended for Burt to see and respond.

Brian Keith in Hooper wasn't her stepfather. It's Jock Mahoney.

Might help explain why Sally seems to have gone over the edge the last few years.

Jock Mahoney is the NEW Lex Barker!

Her step father liked her. He really really liked her.

The list of famous actresses who were NOT molested by a stepfather, cousin, uncle, brother or teacher is probably a very short one indeed.

Why didn't she just fly away?

I'm glad she was able to live a full and rich life. Nowadays sex abuse victims are encouraged to wallow in self pity forever. I am not saying we should ignore or dismiss their pain like society used to but I think now victims are actually discouraged from healing . Neither extreme is healthy .

So Jock was a hunk who played Tarzan and molested his step daughter, same as Lex Barker played Tarzan and molested his stepdaughter whose mother was Lana Turner.

R10, now a days there is treatment available for victims of sexual abuse. Even in the 70s and into the 80s it was shameful to as much as see a shrink (except perhaps for Californians.)

Same with war veterans, they suffered in silence or took it out on others.

Hate to tell you this, r11, but Buster borrowed my fondue set. When he returned it there were two forks missing and the others were all bent out of shape.

[quote] Who would want to hurt someone like sweet Sally???

I would. Do you have any idea the harm she's done to countless unsuspecting older people by shilling Boniva? That shit is one of the absolute lowest rated drugs on the market and is literally crippling people. This bitch has blood on her hands. Shameful!

It's not Sally's fault. If someone has an issue with it it's their doctor's fault. Get over that crazy fucking nonsense.

I was molested first.

Is it cruel of me to mention that as I scrolled past this thread, upon a quick glance of the photo, I thought it was Brett Somers on the set of Match Game '77?

R8 Bella Thorne too. Shes still talentless though (Thorne that is )

R11 that's so weird that they both played Tarzan. How famous was this guy? I have never heard of him.

She dated Monkee Davy Jones.

r14=Blythe Danner

[quote]Hate to tell you this, [R11], but Buster borrowed my fondue set. When he returned it there were two forks missing and the others were all bent out of shape.

I blame his son, Cuffy.

I heard that Troy McClure abused his privilege.

It goes like it goes, like the river flows,

down your little throat, Norma, so you don't get knocked up.

Swallow!

Gets a little bit better, don't it, honey?

Sally needs a new hairstyle - her hands are nice though !!

She looks like the Mandy Moore character on "This Is Us" in the present-day scenes.

R11:

Buster had crabbes.

She used to be so cute. I guess I'm confusing her with the Flying Nun. The real Sally was in a sad codependent relationship with Burt Reynolds and probably everyone else. But she is a great gay mom !!!!

It goes like it goes.

God - after I wrote r28 I looked at her pic and felt so guilty !!

Don't feel guilty, R28/30. She got to look like a teenager well into her sixties.

I really, really do like her. This is very sad to me to learn. I don't think I've ever read a bad word about her.

I’m seeing her in a couple of weeks on her book tour. I’ve loved her work since the 70s, she’s one of a kind.

R19, Mahoney was mostly known for TV Westerns, I think. Lex Barker was a bigger name, but not A list, the way his one-time wife Lana Turner was. He was married earlier to Arlene Dahl, who says she doesn't believe the claims by Lana's daughter Cheryl Crane that Lex raped a pre-teen Cheryl, since Lex had such a big "package" sex with him would have killed a young girl. Arlene was also married to Fernando Lamas (their kid was Lorenzo), who had an affair with Lana when they were making a movie. So everyone was screwing everyone.

[quote]It's not Sally's fault. If someone has an issue with it it's their doctor's fault. Get over that crazy fucking nonsense.

Signing on to pimp a poisonous drug in exchange for blood money isn't her fault? Nice logic.

Buster Crabbe painted my microphone white.

R35, is it possible that when she signed for the ads, the med was still thought to be safe?

I will say this, she looks FANTASTIC in person. I saw her after that awful Glass Menagerie revival and she looks a good 20 years younger than she is.

R35 has things a bit mixed up. Her reality therapy is going well, though.

[quote] I will say this, she looks FANTASTIC in person. I saw her after that awful Glass Menagerie revival and she looks a good 20 years younger than she is.

Like Meryl, she's had a world class plastic surgeon who refreshed without reinventing. She's willing to have some wrinkles to still look like herself, and she's extremely wise to do so.

[Quote] She's willing to have some wrinkles to still look like herself

That's what all of them should do. A few wrinkles won't kill them.

Playing doctor with Jock............

Chain, chain....

What female hasn’t been at some point in her life...?

What is the point of airing dirty laundry like this? It’s so unseemly.

That may explain why she was fucking her "son" while they were shooting Brothers & Sisters.

That always seemed odd to me.

I read she thinks subconsciously she was trying to work out her relationship with the stepfather in her relationship with Burt. She just didn't realize it at the time. Apparently, Burt really hurt her, I am assuming with his infidelity and refusal to attend the Oscars when she was nominated. It was even talked about at the time and in papers that Burt was so jealous of her nomination he just couldn't be there to see her win. I am sure when she won he made her pay for it dearly. Both emotionally and physically. Judy Carne claimed he beat her during their marriage.

Fykhh

R45 = predator; enabler

Here's a little montage of Jock Mahoney. I remember when he was [italic]The Range Rider[/italic] on early 1950s TV. He could have molested me any time he wanted to.

Sally turned that frown upside down and won America's heart! She shows what a little gumption can do!

Dirty laundry is one thing, R45.

Dirty laundry with your step-daddy's dried cum and your blood in it is another thing altogether.

Sally's a doll!

She experienced boundary issues with all her daddies.

For the love of God, r54, why didn't Gary Morton talk Don Porter out of......

She makes Burt sound mentally ill in her book

R56 why?

Because he was

I think Burt was deeply closeted and didn't want to be attracted to men. I think he tried with women but raged against them when he just wasn't sexually attracted to them like he was to men. I think his being all macho with them was him overcompensating. Same with Lee Majors and Farah. When she was in CAs he would talk in interviews about how she had to be home in time to cook him dinner. And in interviews at the time she agreed. So in that respect, he was mentally ill.

I think Sally and Burt had broken up by the time of her first Oscar. Comedian David Steinberg is her date.

If they were still together I can see why Burt wouldn't go since Norma Rae was the same year as Starting Over which got nominations for Jill Clayburgh and Candice Bergen but none for Reynolds.

I wonder if he went to the Golden Globes (which he was nominated for too along with Sally, Jill and Candace.)

Burt "discovering" Robert Urich always seemed....well interesting.

In my college Journalism class (around 2003) we were studying how to write broadcast sound bites from wire service news. I got a story about how Burt was being sued by a girlfriend for abuse and stuff. I remember the teacher saying I should emphasize that the woman accused Burt of stepping on her toes a lot to hurt her. The teacher just thought the stepping on toes stuff was so odd.

No, they were together during Norma Rae. It was much talked about at the time and people watched to see if he would relent and go with her to the Oscars. He didnt.

Seems kinda funny Bur dies before SF book comes out...

It’s tragic, but I wonder if the depth of her performances, particularly on TSFP, owes something to her pain? Silver lining?

So was David Spielberg just a friend or what?

Men come and go but Oscars are forever.

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She looks like Sybil in the OP picture

I thought Jimmy Webb defended himself quite well against her charges.

This is not new news.

R68 sounds like a delusional fangurl

This bitch was striking a very different tone just two weeks ago:

“There are times in your life that are so indelible, they never fade away. They stay alive, even forty years later. My years with Burt never leave my mind. He will be in my history and my heart, for as long as I live. Rest, Buddy.”

Burt told NPR that the problem between him and Field was that he loved her and she never loved him.

Take that for whatever it may be worth.