Look Here, Read: “My Heart Broke in Hollywood,” with art by Jim Steranko

3 thoughts on “Look Here, Read: “My Heart Broke in Hollywood,” with art by Jim Steranko”

1. “My Heart Broke in Hollywood” first appeared in Marvel Comics’ OUR LOVE STORY #5 in 1970. Its plot (and setting) is very much like that of Frazetta’s “Empty Heart” from PERSONAL LOVE #28 in 1954:

   http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2009/02/frank-frazetta-romance-stories-1953.html

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2. Any resemblance between the two stories is superficial, at best. The Frazetta-illustrated version revolves around a simple situation-/romantic-comedy style misunderstanding caused by a lack of communication — notice how the roadblock to romance immediately dissolves when the woman finally demands that the man she is in love with tell her exactly what his problem is, which turns out to be no problem at all — whereas Lee’s version is a sexist fantasy in which a young woman who claims that she “longed for an acting career in Hollywood — all of my life,” and is in early stages of working to make it happen, abandons her personal ambitions in a heartbeat for a completely different kind of “career in Hollywood,” namely, a “lifetime contract” as “the star” that the dashing, charismatic director with whom she has fallen in love has selected “to take the role of — my wife!”

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3. From today’s edition of The Vancouver Sun, a sign of the times…

   Lady Gaga fears she may be single forever, ‘but it’s the price I’ll have to pay’

   Singer says she will always put her career first

   BANG Showbiz

   February 20, 2011

   Lady Gaga admits she could be single forever – because she won’t put a man before her career.

   The ‘Born This Way’ singer refuses to make sacrifices in her professional life for her lovers because her music is her priority, and if that means she doesn’t stay in relationships then so be it.

   She said: “Women have to make decisions and it’s the toughest thing ever. Is it a man or is it a career? I was with a man once who couldn’t understand that other things could come first. I tried not to let them but then I was just unhappy, I had to break away. I know I run the risk of being alone for ever, but it’s the price I’ll have to pay.”

   One of the reasons why Gaga won’t make compromises for guys is that her music can never disappoint her like a man could.

   She added: “I’d never let any man come before my career. I guess there’s some fear inside of me which makes me this way. My music is never going to roll over in bed one morning and tell me that it doesn’t love me any more. I have a big problem with rejection.”

   “Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.” — Eugene Field

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