Review: Entertaining yet sobering look at a show business life
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2012
You know it is one thing to know and not do, but a whole other thing to not know and can't do. This story is very profound. I first caught it a few months back, and with apologies to the writer, I thought it was a piece of fiction mainly because I just cannot fathom parents waking up a toddler out of their sleep to entertain to keep them going. But that was the middle of a depression and times were tough. I really thought it was fiction in spite of the picture and all. As I kept on reading it, I will say this now, I have absolutely positively NO LOVE for Hot Papa! NONE!! If I was the mother, once I got a few thousand and a bank account, he'd been serious history. This lady loved this man knowing full well he was a zilch on handling business for family. If anything, he was all about himself and himself ALONE...He left his family at times during the off season in abject poverty. A tent in the middle of the winter with little or nothing to eat, gambling off their trailer for a little money, taking the best watch or jewelry off your own wife and children's bodies because you just had to gamble, that is low down and funky. And when they got grown and the mother was past tired, he banished her from the stage and told her to go home. sadly, he died tragically himself but to me it's karma. then, the kids barely got an education, so in essence, they couldn't read, write or anything. That is some sad business. real sad, but Flossie overcame hers and eventually earned her high school diploma. great story.