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But the bigger the movie budgets got, the less Heche generally got to do.
We have a romantic-comedy to make.
DeGeneres made the cover ofTimeand went on to land a daytime talk show.
Even media coverage that tried to seem sympathetic bought into a noxious line.
Anne, are you crazy?
is how ABC News anchor Barbara Walters opened her 2001 interview with Heche about her memoir.
No, Im not crazy, Heche said.
Ive lived a crazy life.
I grew up in a crazy family.
And it took me 31 years to get the crazy out of me.
You wrote in your book that you were insane, Walters followed up.
I had another personality, Heche said.
I had a fantasy world.
That I escaped to.
I called my other personality Celestia.
I called the other world that I created for myself the fourth dimension.
I believed I was from that world.
I believed I was from another planet.
I think I was insane.
My dad loved movie stars and my mother loved Jesus … Jesus or movie star?
Jesus or movie star?
After careful and unconscious debate, I tackled the easier challenge first.
Heche said that her father raped her regularly from infancy through age 12.
He was a very promiscuous man, and we knew his lifestyle then, Heche told Larry King.
The death was ruled an accident, but Heche always wondered if it was suicide.
The wounds she carried were deep.
The majority of her story occurs on desolate highways and in the shabby motel where shes fated to die.
The cast was filled with charismatic actors trying to slip into the mind-set of old movie performers.
Heche managed to do both and not just because her rounded features and short blonde hair evoked her predecessor.
Heche makes you feel Marions paranoia and desperation but also appreciate her boldness in flouting American norms.
Her most dazzling achievement is owning the shower scene, perhaps the most widely imitated death in film history.
It has stealth capabilities beyond any Ive ever seen.
Once again, here she was, transforming her pain into art.
Catfightcould have been the start of a full-fledged comeback.
But it wasnt in the cards.
She continued to work, but nothing landed with as much force.
My brother Atlas and I lost our Mom, her son HomertoldPeoplemagazine.
Heche lived a jagged life.
The pieces never fit.
She did the best she could.
