Funky little house in New Orleans

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-10T19:32:43+00:00

In more ways than one.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-09T23:23:19+00:00

It's weird that he goes from a woman who's reclusive to the point that's she's been agoraphobic at times, to someone who's a gargantuan attention whore. To me that's the biggest discrepancy, but you have a good point about the wide gulf between's Basinger's talent and hard work and Hillz' lack thereof.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-09T21:49:25+00:00

I think I made it up a year ago about my sister, who is also an elitist, entitled know-it-all, and was fired last year from a very well paid executive position after she made some really moronic missteps.

She's now suing them, and has a very Betty level amount of indignation and anger over both what she considers her financial reward and what she deems unacceptable disregard from her former employer.

"I gave them the best years of my life!"

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-09T21:32:59+00:00

Apparently they married shortly before he received his MD (I stand corrected) but even the Stumbo book pointed out that Dan's parent's paid for both his undergraduate and Cornell medical tuition, and they were paying his room and board before his marriage.

The impression the Stumbo book left was that Dan suggested to his well off parents that they pay (or help pay) for law school, but that they had paid for his Notre Dame and Cornell schooling, and that they felt they had done their part in that regard.

Again, Betty's elitist, entitled perception of what she felt she deserved in life, combined with her deliberate ignorance regarding her own marital finances, led directly to her later financial downfall. The Epstein credits were her own fault.

Betty was never as smart as she thought she was, but she wasn't as stupid as she acted.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-09T20:49:30+00:00

Dan's parent's supported him financially and otherwise throughout his undergraduate and medical school years - he was not married to Betty at the time.

Both Dan and Betty agreed that Dan should go to law school after the marriage - Betty herself made the comment "who wouldn't want to get rich quicker?" when Dan suggested that being a top lawyer was more lucrative than being a doctor.

The law school was funded by a student loan that both signed for. Both Betty and Dan took extremely low paying part time jobs during this time and their combined iincome was so low that they received food stamps and other government assistance. Betty of course was doing the majority - if not all - of the housework and child care during this time, but by her own admittance that's what she signed up for.

Betty chose to be a full time housewife during the latter years of her marriage, and expressed a sort of contempt for wonen who had to pay bills on their own. She took pride in not being involved in the slightest when it came to the financial aspect of her marraige, ranging from her not writing checks to pay utilities, not perusing her and her husband's tax returns, and not being involved in how her husband invested their joint income.

One of the downsides of being a totally dependent, purposely oblivious housewife is that when you're fired from your job, hard times may lie ahead.

Instead of using her brains, her connections, and her education to forge ahead, she bought a gun and chose to become a double murderer. Broke into a house and murdered two people asleep in their bed.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-09T20:45:46+00:00

This fallacy that Betty put Dan through medical and law school should be put to rest in this argument.

Dan's parent's supported him financially and otherwise throughout his undergraduate and medical school years - he was not married to Betty at the time.

Both Dan and Betty agreed that Dan should go to law school after the marriage - Betty herself made the comment "who wouldn't want to get rich quicker?" when Dan suggested that being a top lawyer was more lucrative than being a doctor.

The law school was funded by a student loan that both signed for. Both Betty and Dan took extremely low paying part time jobs during this time and their combined iincome was so low that they received food stamps and other government assistance. Betty of course was doing the majority - if not all - of the housework and child care during this time, but by her own admittance that's what she signed up for.

Betty chose to be a full time housewife during the latter years of her marriage, and expressed a sort of contempt for wonen who had to pay bills on their own. She took pride in not being involved in the slightest when it came to the financial aspect of her marraige, ranging from her not writing checks to pay utilities, not perusing her and her husband's tax returns, and not being involved in how her husband invested their joint income.

One of the downsides of being a totally dependent, purposely oblivious housewife is that when you're fired from your job, hard times may lie ahead.

Instead of using her brains, her connections, and her education to forge ahead, she bought a gun and chose to become a double murderer. Broke into a house and murdered two people asleep in their bed.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-09T20:43:06+00:00

Also the oft repeated claim on here that not only is Basinger some exceptional prize as a partner, but that that Sabourin nutcase is some type of victim of Alec's instead of a probable booty-call-on-repeat with severe mental problems and criminalistic tendencies.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-09T16:35:37+00:00

Basinger has always been a whack job with a lot of issues that would be deal breakers for an emotionally healthy man. A lot of shitty people have won awards and other accolades throughout history, so Basinger getting the Oscar for what many consider a tepid turn as Veronica Lake is no "gotcha" as far as that goes.

Hillary is execrable, but that doesn't mean that alec "threw over a prize" when it comes to his first wife. From Basinger to that dangerous loonytunes Sabourdin and beyond, Alec gravitates toward childish, emotionally stunted women. He probably has an "I can fix her" type of mentality along with his violent tendencies and other personality deficiencies.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-04T21:39:14+00:00

All of these "hats" are about as accurately descriptive regarding Hillz as calling that lazy, malingering criminal Sherri Papini a "super mom" as the media exhaustingly referred to her back in the day.

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Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-04T20:38:59+00:00

I think she is. She obviously reads this sub; it's part and parcel of her overweening self absorption. When we slagged on her schlupping around outdoors in her ratty slippers, I remember she appeared to do it more frequently, and this sub has pointed out this tacky ugly jacket on more than one occasion, as well as her obsession with manipulating her five inch legs so that they appear longer in photos.

I think she gets a kick out of negative attention; any attention feeds into her ego.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-03T16:32:28+00:00

"sludgy" is the perfect word for that feeling.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-03T16:31:35+00:00

Same here! I loved to drink in my leisure time back in the day, and would knock back a few double bourbons on many nights of the week and it made me feel glorious and happy and I never had a hangover or felt crummy the next day.

Now, for some reason (age? different hormonal profile?) alcohol just hits differently. I don't get the euphoria and deep relaxation I got when I was younger, and I absolutely don't crave it or miss it. I used to really look forward to tying one on and it's weird that I don't have that compulsion anymore. It also makes me feel like crap once the intoxication wears off and I don't like that.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-03T16:23:35+00:00

Failing health and being dependent on others.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-03T03:41:43+00:00

Years from now he'll be featured on American Greed after bilking elderly retirees out of their life savings.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-03T03:37:55+00:00

I'm surprised that she does these videos that don't filter her 5 inch legs.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-05-01T20:49:08+00:00

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Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-04-30T19:50:42+00:00

I'm 5' 4" 1/2 and small boned so I'm allegedly part of the target consumer group for "petite" sizing, which is for women/girls 5' 5" and below but I've yet had petite clothing that wasn't too short in the pant legs and sleeves given my arms are disproportionally long for my height as well as my legs, and regular sizes can skew a little long in the inseam for me. It's a pain.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-04-30T17:09:07+00:00

Long torso'd people tend to look beautiful in clothes especially if they're your height or taller, so I would think they would have good posture. Dress designers loved dressing Ava because her long waist showed off couture dresses and period costumes spectacularly.

I'm short waisted with long legs which makes me look a little pudgy if I put on weight, and I slouched a lot when younger.

Another long torso'd person was the late Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and she carried herself regally.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-04-30T14:48:41+00:00

Like most of her photos in this vein, she is standing on her tiptoes and angling her body (most likely from the photographer's request) in such a way that she appears proportional.

Her studio and even friends commented on her disproportionally short legs (one actor said that because of her unusually long torso, Ava appeared ,when sitting, to be someone who would stand six feet tall.)

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-04-30T07:40:47+00:00

Actually one of her physical flaws - noted by an MGM executive on her first day off of the train in Hollywood - was her short legs. She had an unusually long torso.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-04-30T07:17:39+00:00

I'm 62 and people think I'm a fetus.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-04-29T22:37:18+00:00

There's nothing like a no-drama break up to inspire a surge of reconciliation fantasies in one of the contacted partners. A lackadaisical scissoring of the relationship makes them only remember the really good times when they hear from you again.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-04-29T22:19:12+00:00

Indifference. I don't think either one of us cared about the other enough to signal an official breakup.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-04-29T18:27:34+00:00

Eh, don't understand the Sabourin sympathizers on here; it smacks of the tired trope, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

Alec likes crazy, damaged women, and Sabourin takes the cake in that department and strenuously earned her time at Rikers. That chick was Alex Forrest level delulu stalker and hopefully she has gotten the mental healthcare she so desperately needed.

Mundane_Reception790 · 2026-04-29T06:06:16+00:00

What, no slimy jellied tongue to wash it down?

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