![]() ![]() ![]() I hope you’re all staying safe and sane during this crazy time. She also thanked coronavirus first responders and other essential workers who “are keeping us safe.” On Wednesday, she posted a photo and message on Instagram thanking those who had wished her a happy birthday. But when Adele’s reality seemed to collide with Adele’s ideal, she too became outrage fodder. The multiple-Grammy winner’s “regular gal” persona, so deliciously at odds with the aching perfection of her voice, is the antithesis of the suburban perfection foisted on Reed. So if Donna Reed were a member of the White House press corps, Trump would no doubt be lashing out at her as well, shocked to discover that the actual woman was nothing like the stereotype she has been used to perpetuate.Īdele, meanwhile, got caught in a spin cycle that was Donna Reed in reverse. ![]() In 1984, she replaced an ailing Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie on “Dallas,” and when a recovered Bel Geddes returned to replace her, Reed sued and received a $1 million settlement. About the treatment of women in Hollywood (where she was known as a “troublemaker”), the Vietnam War (she co-chaired Another Mother for Peace and supported presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy) and nuclear power. As many rushed to point out, Reed was always outspoken, and often quite angry. ![]()
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