NYTimes: Glenn Close has Nothing Left to Prove
Super-intimate profile of the Patron Saint of Datalounge who is still working all the time and so is incredibly busy.
Things I had forgotten that the profile reminded me of:
*Her great grandfather was the cereal magnate C. W. Post
*Her parents belonged to a cult that made them missionaries who shipped her all over the world
*the worst thing in her life that still traumatizes her is that the cult's offshoot that she joined was... the upbeat musical group Up with People! She spent years fighting with the adults involved in it and she still cries when she thinks about her wasted years with them.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 23 | October 11, 2025 3:51 PM
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"Up With People" PTSD is a rare diagnosis and one that is notoriously difficult to treat.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 10, 2025 10:52 PM
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[quote]She spent years fighting with the adults involved in it and she still cries when she thinks about her wasted years with them.
I’d like to hear more about this. What was she fighting about?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 10, 2025 10:52 PM
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Hmm, Kris Jenner was a producer on the new Ryan Murphy show.
Guess we know now how Kim got cast.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 10, 2025 11:11 PM
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Glenn went to my boarding school, Choate, many years before I did, so not sure how much missionary traveling she was doing.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 10, 2025 11:15 PM
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Is Choate pronounced like To-ast?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 10, 2025 11:20 PM
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Sad last days for Glenn. It’s sad she is working with Kim Khardashian in a supporting role.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 10, 2025 11:31 PM
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"Her great grandfather was the cereal magnate C. W. Post". This is not true.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 10, 2025 11:31 PM
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Glenn would have gone to Rosemary Hall. It didn't become Choate Rosemary Hall until 1978.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 10, 2025 11:38 PM
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Does Choate still have all of the black and white photos hanging of their past plays going back decades? It was all boys so you had them in drag playing the female roles.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 10, 2025 11:42 PM
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Young G's Stanley Kowalski at Rosemary Hall paved the way for her mature Albert Nobbs!
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 10, 2025 11:51 PM
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[quote]*Her great grandfather was the cereal magnate C. W. Post
No. Glenn's grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, was once married to Marjorie Merriweather Post, but Glenn is not related to the cereal magnate.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 11, 2025 12:00 AM
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Glenn's maternal grandfather, Charles A. Moore, Jr, was the older brother of socialite Mary Elsie Moore, who married Don Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, and begat Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi, grandmother of Brooke Shields.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 11, 2025 12:11 AM
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Where is all this going? Did her peeps come over on the goddamn fucking Mayflower?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 11, 2025 12:22 AM
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This is why she needs to write a memoir (as I suggested a few weeks ago). She's had an interesting life I wish she'd share with her fans.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 11, 2025 1:25 AM
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Did you see the mention of Faye in the article? ALW was drunk when he hired her?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 11, 2025 2:07 AM
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In the book "Failure Is Not An Option" by gay boy Patrick Hinds, he claims that his lesbian mother once had an affair with Glenn Close when they were both in college.
He also talks about his disastrous evening with Bea Arthur. Very funny.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 11, 2025 2:14 AM
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The bitch still has to prove her innocence to me!!
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 11, 2025 2:28 AM
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Beautiful clothes in those photos. I love Glenn’s campy glamour poses next to the gigantic rocks, too.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 11, 2025 2:30 AM
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She reportedly auditioned for Carrie White.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 11, 2025 2:34 AM
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It’s surprising the NYTimes got it wrong about C.W. Post being her great grandfather, that’s easy to fact check.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 11, 2025 2:45 AM
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The FORMER New York Times
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 11, 2025 3:51 PM
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