texts: I didn't mean to -- </s> <s> Of course you didn't.  You didn't know Norma Desmond as a plucky little girl of seventeen, with more courage and wit and heart than ever came together in one youngster. </s> <s> I hear she was a terror to work with.
labels: She got to be.  A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.  Hold everything.