I watched the movie Whatever Happened to Baby Jane again tonight and had a thought: Insurance companies could use a clip from this movie to help sell long term care insurance.
The story is about two aging actresses played by Bette Davis and Joan Crawford (Bette Davis is the crazy, evil, drunken sister. But you find out that Joan's character is not all sweet either, but definitely more palatable.) To make a long story short, Joan's character has an accident and is left in a wheelchair, and both of their acting careers go down the tubes.
Bette's character in effect holds Joan's character hostage in an upstairs bedroom and starts abusing her. Parts of it are very hard to watch. Joan's character becomes more and more frightened and sicker and is going to die. Bette's character serves dead rats to Joan for dinner and such, so Joan is afraid to eat, making her even weaker. I read that Bette Davis was 54 when she made this movie. Good grief! I hope she was made up to look so much older, and that she didn't really look this bad herself.
Anyway, it is about 2 hours of painful, yet wonderful cinema. Long term health insurance can help you stay independent of crazy, vindictive relatives! When my former company started offering such plans, a bunch of us signed up for it, just knowing that that would keep us freewilled and independent of any relatives who might want to have it in for us, lol!
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