Comments on: Princess Diary

By: Wrapitup

Wrapitup — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:30:13 +0000

And yeah, awesome piece. Thanks, lawyergay.

By: Wrapitup

Wrapitup — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:09:35 +0000

Wow. that poor girl.

By: Unfun

Unfun — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:53:15 +0000

Wow. Great piece.

By: htotheomo

htotheomo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:31:48 +0000

This is heart-rended, no matter what her father did, and is a nice tribute to a friend at a time when you needed one.

This post is very sincere and why we are here. Of course, I will go to my grave wondering why you were listening to the music you listening to.

By: lawyergay

lawyergay — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:33:27 +0000

Nina: I don’t know if you’ve watched The Queen and I, but “denial” doesn’t even BEGIN to cover how sadly delusional the Iranian ex-pat royalist community is. Some of the best scenes in this film are of the filmmaker mingling uncomfortably with what can only be described as “Krazy Persians.” They all either think Reza Pahlavi, Leila’s brother, is about 2 weeks away from assuming the Peacock Throne, or that he is about to marry them or one of their daughters. Also, Farah’s house near Washington is the most desolate kind of McMansion.

By: Nina Hagen

Nina Hagen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:27:57 +0000

My fave quote about the Shah:

“He’s a son of a bitch but he’s our son of a bitch.”

Lyndon B. Johnson

By: lawyergay

lawyergay — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:24:39 +0000

@Nina: Thanks. I thought you might appreciate this.

By: lawyergay

lawyergay — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:09:42 +0000

Curly: Leila was also anorectic. Fuck me it’s so goddamn sad. Farah is at her most sympathetic in “The Queen and I” when she is at Leila’s grave with the filmmaker talking about how desperate she was to have news of her daughter whom she hadn’t heard from for days. Finally, she called the psychiatrist Leila was seeing in London and got him to go to the hotel and just insist on being let into her room. That’s when Leila was found dead.

What’s so remarkable about this movie is that the filmmaker knows how wretched and evil the Shah was, but she is also ineluctably drawn into Farah’s sympathetic orbit. Both Farah and Sarvestani are exiles from Iran, which has all the makings of being a totally awesome country, except for the crazy clerics/totalitarians who seem to keep running the show.

By: Nina Hagen

Nina Hagen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:01:50 +0000

BTW, as someone who also went to school with princesses, she sounds so…different.

By: Nina Hagen

Nina Hagen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:00:10 +0000

Nice…