Goldwater easily won on the first ballot, but Scranton by then had written a furious open letter in which he attacked "Goldwaterism," saying that it had "come to stand for a whole crazy-quilt collection of absurd and dangerous positions".
Alexandra Styron's account of "the whole crazy-town scene in which I was raised" (like many children of flamboyant parents she appears to long for regulation and stability), and of the slow dawning of the severity of her father's condition, is handled with great skill.
Alas, as if by clockwork or the professional lout's handbook, she turns out to be wildly insecure, possessive, needy, the whole crazy-woman nine yards, which means that, at least as far as the filmmakers are concerned, she's both a drag and a threat.
Hey, you know what's really useful about that whole crazy-ass right-wing Nonsensatron Dispatch From The Looney Cortex, where Obama's trip to India was said to be costing $200 million a day?
His next album, Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, was released that same year and sold well despite his initial inability to tour to promote it.
