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WHY WON'T OLIVIA de HAVILLAND & HER SISTER JOAN FONTAINE EVER MAKE UP!?!?!

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WHY WON'T OLIVIA de HAVILLAND & HER SISTER JOAN FONTAINE EVER MAKE UP? --- On television the other night my director husband and I were watching an Errol Flynn documentary when they were interviewing Olivia de Havilland who has been fueding with her sister Joan Fontaine for many years now. It saddened me that after all this time the silbing rivalry and jealous, petty sister jabs were still hurting and strong within both Olivia and Joan. I had the great honor to meet Ms. de Havilland many years ago at a P.R. function and people were asking all sorts of questions except for the one I was thinking that was probably taboo. In all my young writer energy and enthuasiam, right in the middle of the workshop when everyone was asking Olivia de Havilland questions on the entertainment business, I jumped up and asked outright to her, "Why won't you just make up with your sister!" The whole room froze like the Mr. Freeze from the old Batman t.v. series came in and blasted the crowd. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a big man coming my way in the room, and you could hear the coffee pots hissing. Lee Solters was once a P.R. icon handling such past luminaries as as Michael Jackson, Liz Taylor, Carol Channing, Sinatra and it turned out he handled Olivia de Havilland. Before the rotund looking man in a tux that looked like someone's goon reached me, I re-adjusted myself and said, "I too have a sister and we're estranged!" Instead of ignoring me, she asked, "Why are you and your sister not talking," but she said it like she was annoyed that I had to bring her sister up at all, when she had specifically stated that no press or writers were to ask anything about her sister Joan Fontaine. "Silly young lady," she said to me from the large stage at tha Beverly Canon Theatre where she'd just finished doing "Love Letters" t a sell out crowd. It was just around the corner from my own apartment and I heard the hoopla from my living room window which faced the parking lot of Gucci's on Rodeo. There was a small ruckus going on at the small theater in Beverly Hills where I lived just around the corner on Reeves Drive, near Wilshire Blvd., 2 blocks from famed agent power company's CAA and William Morris Agency, behind the storefronts of Barney's. "Ms. de Havilland, I meant no disrespect, I just have tried everything to make up with my own sister who is a wedding planner and a owns night clubs in Florida and has such a gifted daughter and because of our fued my mother and brothers have joined with my sister and refuse to even talk to me!" When she didn't stop me, I continue my tirade. "It's been at least ten years now and I thought you could shed some light on how you deal with it!" By this time Lee Solters was within arms length of me and actually reached out and grabbed me by the collar. "Let's see your Press pass Lady!," he bellowed like the raging bull he portrayed. I pulled out the phoney pass I'd lifted on the set of a now defunct NBC show called The Return of Perry Mason starring Dyan Canon as Jody the soap opera queen who kills her husband and it was the pilot starring Hal Holbrook as the new Perry Mason, which never got to the screen, but I was in the first episode as a reporter and actually said my first 'under 5' lines to Dyan Canon who took a liking to me on the set. Although the show never rolled out on NBC, it was my first 'speaking role ever". Those 10 word were burned into my head forever! 'Jody, what's going on at the set and your marriage?' I scereamed the sentence for over 30 takes in a courtroom drama scene. Now here I was for real and asking it in that same way to the icon movie star Olivia de Havilland as to why she can't make up with her own sister after decades of resentment. Time is short and I'd love to make up with my own family and wish I could take away the sting of why dear sister of mine will not forgive so I thought asking Ms. de Havilland would have some effect. My sister split began with the fact that out of the blue my sister's husband started writing me emails like crazy after 9/11 and he and I started this ugly email barrage that was bascially trashing my sister in every page, due to resentment growing on both sides of the coin. I might have been jealous, in fact, I was. I admit it, but when her hubby started dishing her, I fell into the hole. This email barrage went on for almost one year until my sis got suspicious and found a way to check her hubby's email and then printed out all the emails and gave them to my neuroic mother who carried them around in her purse like the transcript to the Nixon tapes until the whole one sided manuscript was torn and tattered. So when I was at the event I thought of my own reasons as to why my sister will not make up with me, just like Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland? Why can't they make up? Is it Joan who doesn't want to make up, or Olivia? By the time I was thinking straight Lee Solters looked at my fake press pass from the set of The New Perry Mason Show and shook his head. "You, out, now!" Before I could say another word, I was tossed out on my arse so fast, but I did manage to get some of it on videotape. Once I was outside there was a huge protest going on at the event, because directly across the street on Canon Drive in smack dab in the middle of Baverly Hills California Marvin Davis movie icon was opening a new ritzy deli and the prices were sky high so people gathered and were screaming "Prices are steep, Davis is cheap!" over and over and over until even the unflappable Davis started to look hot under his tight dark collar. I had my video rolling and there walks up Carol Channing herself to check out a sandwich named after her, so I drifted across the street directly over to her, still wonering why Joan Fontaine and Oliva de Havilland can't just make up, and as I saw Carol Channing standing there on the street being interviewed by Entertainment Tonight, I fell right into that and started videotaping her and throwing questions out at her! "Why are you here Carol?" I yelled. The man taping from ET gave me the evil eye! But Carol was chipper and sweeter with me right away and started to igore all the other media and said, "I love a big salami," which prompted me to started joking about it with her to which she actually responded. Her answers were so off handed and right off the top of her head but she was being drowned out by the jazz bang that was trying to play louder than the protesters. Her receptiveness got me thinking and I ran around to the back stage door of the Canon Theatre where Olivia de Havilland was giving her discussion on the entertainment business. I sneaked back inside no problem and saw the meeting was breaking up now. I again went up to Oliva de Havilland and just blurted out "I am very sorry," while trying to keep my video camera running and just playing the whole thing off! "So Ms. de Havilland?" I asked. "Yes," she answered exasperated but a strange bond formed for a split second between us. "Will you ever make up with your sister Joan Fontaine?" She seemed to flinch at the name, and that's when Solters arrrived on the scene again and threatened to call the cops if I didn't leave the premeises. As I scammpered away I saw Carol Channing and Marvin Davis being lifed by a crane with a huge plastic soup dumpling that they would offically be throwing into a large soup bowl below them. Davis looked worried, but Channing took it in stride and the deed was done amongst the protesters screaming and the Jazz band trying to play louder to blare out the protest. As I ran down the corner around 45th and 8th I hid in a doorway. Suddenely I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was Olivia de Havilland! She beckoned me closer and whispered ever so throaty - "Darlink, don't ever make dirt of your family nor try to best them in anything, nor talk negative or bad of them. It's a silent pain I bear, Dear, and I didn't mean to get butt (she said 'butt' with such gusto) you ejected from the hall," she said sweetly, her old eyes sparkling with just a hint of emotional tears. "You are a young girl so try and make up with your family, for it is easier to dispise longer than to forgive. It's just easier not to make up, not to try, just to live your life and make other sisters in life. It's only flesh and blood, you know," she laughed as she passed me and entered a waiting limo. I was in shock. But she was right. I stayed planted there until at last I heard the fading of the jazz band and the protesters were dispersing as well. The police had shown up after Marvin Davis (some were worried about him being hoisted up 40 feet to drop a dumpling in a oversized bowl below, he could have been the dumpling and the soup and the whole restaurant)! Carol Channing did her appearance and was leaving. My heart was beating a mile a minute and I felt exhililarated and faint when out of the blue Ms. Channing looked over to me as she was making her fast exit and smiled brightly at me and waved! But I will never forget that 'de Havilland' smell...a slight hint of expensive perfume from Paris with the oily odor of real mink and real alligator shoes. She was an icon, but took one fleeting second to answer my question. The answer: Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine will not be making up in our lifetime!

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