hadn t experienced before. i mean are he had a plan for what a family life was going to be like, and what they were going to be like as parents. i think that was a big part of the appeal for my mom. it s interesting, because they could not have been from more different worlds. my dad came from this relatively poor family in mississippi. had two parents for most of his childhood and brothers and sisters, and had family reunions and relatives were all around. you re listening to wyatt cooper reminiscing about life within a large rural family. these were joyous occasions for me, to see all these people gathered in holiday mood with their jokes and laughter. it was an exciting thing i knew. we belonged to one another. i m a loner, but i ve had to learn how to belong to a family. wyatt brought that kind of gentle feeling of family.
writer wyatt cooper. over the course of her life, my mom was photographed by all the great photographers and she worked as a painter, a writer, an actress and designer. gloria, you re terrific. if you were around in the early 1980s, it was pretty hard to miss the jeans she helped to create. but that was her public face, the one she learned to hide behind as a child. her private self, her real self that was more fascinating and more lovely than anything she showed the public. i always thought of her as a visitor from another world, a traveler stranded here who had come from a distant star that burned out long ago. i always felt it was my job to try to protect her. she was the strongest person i ever met, but she wasn t tough. she never developed a thick skin to protect herself from hurt. she wanted to feel it all. she wanted to feel life s pleasures, its pains, as well. she trusted too freely, too completely and suffered tremendous losses, but she
oh, god. sweetheart, i was only 17. okay. i know. at 21, she married again and had two sons with the legendary conductor. this is what he looked like when you first met him? well, it s a terrible photograph of him but he was 63 when i first met him and married him. was this something as soon as you saw him, you thought instant. really? knew him for a week and married three weeks later. really? yeah. i didn t know that. yeah. he was 63? yeah. wow. did any of your friends think it was weird? ah i don t know. i mean they didn t say anything? didn t matter to me. the marriage lasted more than a decade. then she met and married a director and then, my father,
then she met and married director sydney and my father wyatt cooper. over the course of her life, my mom was photographed by all the great photographers she worked as a painter, writer, actress and designer. gloria, you re terrific. if you were around in the 1980s it was hard to miss the jeans she helped create but that was her public face, the one she learned to hide behind as a child. her private self, her real self was fascinating and more lovely than anything she showed the public. i always thought of her as a visitor from another world, a traveler stranded here who had come from a distant star that burned out long ago. i always felt it was my job to protect her. she was the strongest person i ever met but she wasn t tough. she never developed a thick skin to protect herself from hurt. she wanted to feel it all. she wanted to feel life s pleasures, its pains, as well. she trusted too freely, too
married three weeks later. instantly. really? i didn t know that. yeah. and he was 63? yeah. did any of your friends think it was weird? i don t know. i mean they didn t say anything to you? didn t matter to me. the marriage lasted more than a decade. then she met and married director sydney loumette and then my father writer wyatt cooper. over the course of her life, my mom was photographed by all of the great photographers, and she worked as a painter, a writer and actress and designer. gloria in the early 1980s it was hard to miss the jeans she helped create but that was the public face, the one she learned to hide behind as a child. her private self-and real self was more fascinating than anything she showed the public. i thought of her as a visitor