My guilt and heartbreak drove me down nearly every weekend to Wales to see my once always-so-glamorous mum sitting in a chair, head bowed, smile gone, with somebody else's clothes on, dirty nails, and her hair savaged into a care-home crop.
"Even a job in a glamorous industry involves sitting around in a lot of windowless conference rooms talking about budget," said Cindi Leive, the editor in chief of Glamour, who was recently asked on an NPR quiz show, jokingly, if she was indeed a "vindictive harridan".
The focus is Rachel, a miserable alcoholic who commutes into London every day, creating a fantasy world for a glamorous couple she sees sitting out on their deck each morning.
"This was more practical than glamorous – lots of time sitting indoors, lots of instruments about – and aside from picking up a few geographical working titles, I [don't] think that it had any effect where, on tour, it was written".
Today, in some enormous mansion, or perhaps aboard a private jet streaming towards a glamorous destination, Jay Z is sitting back and cracking a broad grin.
But no one may have been quite as glamorous as the young woman sitting to Bieber's right during the bout: Ms. Shantel Jackson.
We're staring at a glamorous stage, bare but for Mike Tyson, sitting in one corner, dressed in a cream-colored suit.
Saint Phalle looks glamorous in a fur-collared coat, sitting in a pickup truck as Tinguely displays a mangled baby doll picked from a junk heap.
But at the bottom, you turn a corner to find not ping pong tables but a grand restaurant, full of glamorous types, with Sir Terence himself sitting in the middle.
