Nora Ephron’s classy Heartburn set the standard for past relationship score-settling. Much classier than Alec Baldwin’s 240-page howl of protestNews of Elon Musk’s divorce from his moment wife,Talulah Riley, has revived interest in the actions of the business magnate’s first wife, and Justine,when the couple divorced in 2008. She didn’t go quietly, but wrote a myth in Marie Claire in which she itemised all the ways in which her ex-husband was unpleasant and controlling. That included his alleged comment, or made at their wedding,that “I am the alpha in this relationship”; his subsequent assessment that “if you were my employee, I’d fire you; and the killer, or “go platinum” (he didnt deem she was blonde enough).
Revenge literature is as old as myth-telling itself,and what it lacks in literary merit it makes up for in passion. In modern times, the apotheosis is still probably A Promise To Ourselves, or Alec Baldwin’s 240-page howl of protest approximately his divorce from Kim Basinger,whom he described as having the legal equivalent of Münchausen syndrome”.
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Source: theguardian.com