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Daily Mail
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Mia Farrow, 80, reveals which very famous Hollywood icon was 'scary in person'
Mia Farrow has lived a storied existence appearing in some of Hollywood's most memorable movies and growing up among Hollywood legends. The Tony nominee, 80, dished about her life growing up with her parents, actress Maureen O'Sullivan and director John Farrow, in Interview magazine. She said meeting stars such as Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn and director George Cukor was a common occurrence. In the chat with Tony winner Cole Escola, 38, Farrow admitted she found one grand dame of the silver screen, Joan Crawford, to be 'scary.' Farrow said she first met the Oscar winner when she was a young actress when they ran into each other on the Fox lot in Los Angeles. 'I forget what movie was shooting, probably that one with Bette Davis, the scary one,' she told the Oh, Mary! star. 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?' he asked. 'If that was shot at Fox, then that was what they were shooting. And for whatever reason, she started sending a whole refrigerator of Pepsi Cola for my trailer 'cause I was in a TV series called Peyton Place.' she revealed. 'She's scary. And she was scary in person as well,' Crawford was married at the time to Alfred Steele, who was the president of Pepsi-Cola at the time, and she became a prominent face for the company. 'I don't particularly like Pepsi Cola, but a lot of Pepsi Cola kept coming to my trailer, more than anyone would ever want,' she explained. The two had another encounter when Crawford visited her mother's home in New York City, and Farrow said she got 'a strange vibe' from the Mildred Pierce star. 'So I'm back in New York, and she knew my mother. I hung up people's coats for my mom when they came into the house. And I hung her coat and out falls a flask of alcohol. She grabbed it like that, and she put it in her handbag. She drank quite a lot,' she said of The Women actress. 'Then she invited me to her apartment. I thought it was a party, but I arrived, and I was the only one there,' she said. 'I was 17, and everything was green in her apartment. It just had very low lighting. And there were no other guests, just Ms. Crawford and me. And I just wasn't very comfortable.' To get out of the situation the Secret Ceremony star quickly came up with an excuse. Farrow said Crawford once invited her to her apartment in NYC. 'I thought it was a party, but I arrived, and I was the only one there,' adding she quickly made up an excuse to leave, telling Crawford she didn't feel well; circa 1950 'I just made up a lie that I wasn't feeling very well and I didn't want to give her any diseases. I think I said the word 'diseases' as I walked out of the room. I was scared of Ms. Crawford,' she said. Farrow also mentioned it was a bit of luck that helped her land one of her most memorable roles, that of a new mom with a devilish child in the thriller Rosemary's Baby. 'Jane Fonda and other great actors had turned it down because they had never heard of Roman Polanski, and it was just a little horror movie,' she said. 'I'm eternally grateful because it really gave me my career. And people still watch it, at least on Halloween.'
New York Post
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Mia Farrow recalls abruptly leaving ‘strange' Joan Crawford's apartment: ‘I was scared'
Mia Farrow was not a fan of Joan Crawford. In a new Interview magazine piece, Farrow, 80, spoke to fellow Broadway star Cole Escola about Crawford, calling the 'Our Dancing Daughters' actress 'scary.' 'And she was scary in person as well,' Farrow added. 8 Mia Farrow attends the 78th Annual Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press Event on May 8, 2025. Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions 8 Joan Crawford in 1944. Getty Images The 'Alice' star recalled that she interacted with Crawford as a teenager while filming 'Peyton Place' on the Fox lot in California. At the time, Crawford — who was almost 40 years older than Farrow — was married to Pepsi-Cola president Alfred Steele. 'For whatever reason, she started sending a whole refrigerator of Pepsi Cola for my trailer 'cause I was in a TV series called 'Peyton Place,'' Farrow explained. 'I don't particularly like Pepsi Cola, but a lot of Pepsi Cola kept coming to my trailer, more than anyone would ever want. And then she came over to see me and I got a strange vibe from her.' 8 Dorothy Malone and Mia Farrow on 'Peyton Place.' Bettmann Archive 8 Johnny Mack Brown and Joan Crawford in 'Our Dancing Daughters' in 1928. Getty Images Farrow described another weird moment with Crawford at her mother Maureen O'Sullivan's house in New York. 'So I'm back in New York, and she knew my mother. I hung up people's coats for my mom when they came into the house,' Farrow shared. 'And I hung her coat and out falls a flask of alcohol. She grabbed it like that, and she put it in her handbag. She drank quite a lot.' 8 Joan Crawford in a promotional still from 'The Best Of Everything' in 1959. Getty Images Additionally, Farrow recalled that she was 17 she had an unpleasant experience at Crawford's NYC apartment. 'I thought it was a party, but I arrived, and I was the only one there,' Farrow said, adding, 'I was 17, and everything was green in her apartment. It just had very low lighting.' 8 Mia Farrow at the 2025 Drama League Awards in New York City. Bruce Glikas/WireImage 'And there were no other guests, just Ms. Crawford and me,' Farrow continued. 'And I just wasn't very comfortable. So I just made up a lie that I wasn't feeling very well and I didn't want to give her any diseases. I think I said the word 'diseases' as I walked out of the room. I was scared of Ms. Crawford.' Crawford died in May 1977. The legendary actress had an infamous feud with her 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' co-star Bette Davis. 8 Joan Crawford in 1936. NBCUniversal via Getty Images Farrow, meanwhile, was close friends with Davis, who died in 1989 at age 81. 8 Bette Davis in 1968. Getty Images In the Interview magazine story, Farrow slammed Davis' daughter B.D. Hyman's 1985 memoir, 'My Mother's Keeper,' and called it 'a trashy book.' 'B.D. betrayed her mother in a horrible way, wrote a trashy book and stuff,' said Farrow. 'So we've known each other since childhood but I lost all respect for her. I really loved her mother, by the way.'
New York Times
06-06-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back
For more than 60 years, my family owned a small paint factory in Long Island City, Queens, in the shadow of the neon Pepsi-Cola sign just across the East River from Manhattan. That factory and the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant are long gone — two of the hundreds of industrial facilities that once existed throughout the city. What has replaced some of them are gleaming towers of condominiums, many with seven-figure price tags. Trendy restaurants have supplanted blue-collar diners. In a few decades, New York's industrial base was extinguished, yet today, the city has never been more populous or more prosperous, a winner in the process that the economist Joseph Schumpeter called 'creative destruction.' President Trump — who is persisting with his incoherent effort to increase American manufacturing — shows little sign of grasping this key concept. Just as New York prospered as a postindustrial economy, so can the United States flourish without attempting a wholesale rebuilding of lost industrial prowess. I understand that the relaxation of trade barriers, particularly since China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, helped accelerate the disappearance of manufacturing jobs. In retrospect, we should have been less lackadaisical about the loss of an estimated one million manufacturing jobs to China in the 2000s. At a minimum, we should have done more to help displaced workers adjust. But that doesn't mean we should try to bring those jobs back. In the heyday of American manufacturing, such workers enjoyed far higher wages than those in services. No longer. That advantage has been shriveling for decades and, by some measures, has disappeared entirely. And manufacturing work is often unpleasant. Assembling iPhones is the definition of tedium — long hours performing repetitive tasks, like inserting the same small component over and over, for pay well below our minimum wage. Little wonder many Americans — particularly younger ones — view classic factory work as unappealing. Today, there are nearly 500,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Perth Now
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Mia Farrow reveals 'strange vibe' she got from Joan Crawford: 'She was scary...'
Mia Farrow was "scared" of Joan Crawford when she met her. The 80-year-old actress was working on the same lot as the late Hollywood legend - who suffered a fatal heart attack in 1977 - in the 1960s, and recalled getting a "strange vibe" from her at the time, and this was escalated when she received an invite to her apartment. She told Interview: "She's scary. And she was scary in person as well. " I more than met her. I forget what movie was shooting, probably that one with Bette Davis, the scary one. If ['Whatever Happened to Baby Jane'] was shot at Fox, then that was what they were shooting. And for whatever reason, she started sending a whole refrigerator of Pepsi Cola for my trailer 'cause I was in a TV series called 'Peyton Place'. "I don't particularly like Pepsi Cola, but a lot of Pepsi Cola kept coming to my trailer, more than anyone would ever want. And then she came over to see me and I got a strange vibe from her. "So I'm back in New York, and she knew my mother. I hung up people's coats for my mom when they came into the house. And I hung her coat and out falls a flask of alcohol. She grabbed it like that, and she put it in her handbag. She drank quite a lot. "Then she invited me to her apartment. I thought it was a party, but I arrived, and I was the only one there. The 'Great Gatsby' star - who was famously married to legendary crooner Frank Sinatra for two years in the 1960s - didn't feel comfortable in Joan's presence when they were alone together and made up an excuse to leave straight away. She added: " I was 17, and everything was green in her apartment. It just had very low lighting. And there were no other guests, just Ms. Crawford and me. And I just wasn't very comfortable. "So I just made up a lie that I wasn't feeling very well, and I didn't want to give her any diseases. I think I said the word 'diseases' as I walked out of the room. I was scared of Ms. Crawford."
Buzz Feed
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Just 10 Frighteningly Confusing Photos I Saw This Week That Are Still Making My Head Spin
Hello again, and welcome to our roundup of the most confusing photos we found on Reddit this week. Check out last week's if you missed it — and let's get right into it! 1. Why do the beams in this apartment complex look broken? u/aquacakra / "There are no beams in the middle. There is nothing between the balconies." — u/eXclurel 2. Explain why these two cats look conjoined. "The cat on the right has his arm around the cat on the left." — u/KeltarCentauri 3. Where is this man's actual leg? u/GhostshipX / "He is resting his left foot on his right knee. You can hold a lot of weight like this comfortably for a long time. Lifting with your arms is easier to do but requires strength to hold even for a while; forget about holding the kid like that for 10 minutes while he plays his game or whatever that machine is." — u/Homicidal_janitor 4. Why does it look like there is a hole in the sky for this building? u/Raxxla / "The shaft is reflected off the bottom of the shiny plate disc on top." — u/godon2020 5. How about this hole? Is it below sea level? u/beavertownneckoil / "Standing at the top of this hill, and this hole is at the top, and the sea is visible way below at the bottom of the hill, but a photo was taken so the edge of the hole aligns with the beach." — u/VentureIntoVoid 6. Yikes! But, thankfully, not a real person. What is it? I am not sure, but I am assuming someone did this on purpose. 7. I truly don't know where this person's head is. Do you? u/No-Community- / Well, the person definitely has a head. It is on the other side of the horse, even though it doesn't look like it! 8. What are we looking at here? u/Kryczka88 / A side view of the Pepsi Cola sign in Queens, New York. "This is cool. At this angle, it looks like a lightsaber as well. (If you ignore the outline of the billboard on the left)." — u/Stingwing4oba 9. Hey, are these floating pants!? u/awkwardlemon223 / 10. And, wait a minute, this person has legs, right?!!!
