Amy Adams in Tim Burton’s Big Eyes
Margaret Keane is 87 years old. She was recently in NYC for the MoMA premiere of Big Eyes, the new Tim Burton film about her husband, and the lies he told, passing her paintings off as his own, making them rich and famous. Walter Keane’s 1983 memoir The World of Keane was filled with lots of swinging 60s stuff in it, with three-ways and celebrities skinny-dipping in their pool. She told New York Magazine;
“That was all in his imagination. That did not happen in my house. I stood up for a few things. After I left, I don’t know what he did. But I don’t think there is a single true line in that whole book. He did sometimes bring celebrities in the house, but nobody was swimming in the nude… I remember Phyllis Diller swimming in the pool, but she had on a bathing suit. Natalie Wood was wonderful. And Joan Crawford was an extremely good friend. In the beginning, when she thought Walter did the paintings, we were unknown artists, she promoted us. Our first show in New York, she sponsored it. She invited the people, she got the press there, she did it all. I can’t believe that she was such a bad mother! I don’t know if it was true or not, but she was certainly good to me.”
I cannot WAIT to see this movie which premieres on Christmas Day. To see Margaret’s work (or buy me a print) go here. You can read the full story in New York magazine here.
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