Small packages

She was smaller, or tinier, than I had imagined she would be.  But actors and actresses almost always are.  On celluloid they are always “larger than life.”  In person initially they appear to be pretty much like everyone else and thus inevitably one hides the disappointment that someone they had looked up to was indeed a mere, normal mortal. Even though just four foot and eleven inches,  Anna Pearce was clearly different.  Her eyes danced.  Her smile was genuine.  Her questions incisive.  Even if one had not read her painfully honest autobiography , Call Me Anna , one could tell that “Patty Duke” was a survivor, a person at last at peace with herself, comfortable in her personna, full of energy/ Chris Carlson , Carlson Chronicles. More here.