All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.
I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note session at Imagine for a TV show I wrote that they were producing, and they happened to say, 'You'd be great as Crosby, do you want to do this show we're doing, 'Parenthood?'
They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.
All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'
I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.
Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.