curiouser and curiouser

I have never been able to figure out why so many love to hate JonBenet, meaning those that speak derogatorily of a brutally murdered 6 year old. Makes me wonder. There is the one extreme - those creeps that fantasize and covert from afar with the other end of the spectrum being those that seem to somehow hold a six year old responsible for her own murder.

The article below is a new angle and low in negativity. Apparently horribly miscast as the muse for a 1985 production of Alice in Wonderland, this movie occurred long before JonBenet was even born and a nearly a decade before the vicious murder - -

Alice, Bratty in Wonderland
Published in the Daily Beast
by Nicole LaPorte

"From Lewis Carroll to Tim Burton, Alice has always been one of fiction's biggest pills. Nicole LaPorte traces her evolution from Victorian know-it-all to '50s princess to JonBenét clone....

Alice entered her JonBenét Ramsey stage in 1985—of course, on American television. In this small-screen movie, directed by Harry Harris, Alice is a walking American Girl doll, played by Natalie Gregory, and she's so young that the script has her state her age, 7 and a half, though that feels like a stretch. Here, she transforms into that classic, distinctly American child who is alternately cute and bratty and, ultimately, supremely annoying....[...read more]

who?

Everybody is happy in Boulder now. The embarassment of the bungled investigation of JonBenet Ramsey's vicious and still to be solved murder is fading to a memory; the recent Gallup poll and Westward's Patricia Calhoun says it is so - -

Boulder: As memories of JonBenét Ramsey fade, the town is happy at last
Published in Westward
By Patricia Calhoun

"The panhandler outside looked happy. The hostess inside looked happy. The server looked happy. And we were happy...when the results of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index were released, putting Boulder right at the very top of every city in the country for overall well-being.

..."Do you think you could be happy in a place where everyone's so happy?" I asked my niece. "I thought part of the college experience was being miserable."

We were mulling that over when I, the helpful tour guide, pointed out one of Boulder's municipal buildings, glinting in the sun. "You probably saw that a lot during all the coverage of JonBenét Ramsey," I said.

"JonBenét who?" she responded.

Happy at last.[...read more]