This Week Probably Clocks Up The Greatest Amount Of Bitches Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                       Now, darlings, for all who are gay and/or love tearjerkers, few things top Barbara Stanwyck as "Stella Dallas," back in 1937.  The final scene is happy and heartbreaking, but who can forget, earlier, the scene where Laurel (Anne Shirley) awaits her birthday party guests, and--due to class differences, exhibited by her mother--no one shows up.

                                        Teddy Bollinger, pictured above, is this column's version of Laurel Dallas.  His story does have a happier ending, though.

                                          Teddy invited 32 of his classmates, and their parents--which adds up, approximately to 96 people--to his sixth birthday party, at Peter Piper Pizza restaurant, in Tuscon, Arizona.  Teddy must have been excited and ready, as were his parents, who planned the whole thing.

                                             As can be seen from the picture of Teddy, above, like Laurel, no one showed up for his party!  It may be his party, and he can cry if he wants to, (I mean, "You'd cry, too, if it happened to you?") but why should he have to?

                                              Consequently, we have a record 90 plus winners of The Raving Queen's Bitch Of The Week Award.  Those unidentified (and are now probably too ashamed to admit it; what excuses could they give?) classmates and their parents, who dissed Teddy and his parents on the day of the party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                 Two sets of families did decline, with excusable explanations. But what about the rest?  With not even an explanation?  What is wrong with these people?  If I were Teddy's parents, I would remove him from the school pronto!  If this had been back in the days of "The Bad Seed," Miss Fern would never have tolerated this. And if Teddy had been a very different kid, well...all of a sudden those classmates would disappear mysteriously.

                                                   But Teddy is a sweet child, and his story has a nice ending.  His birthday, which was October 3, was a washout. But when this hit the media, word got to the Phoenix Suns Basketball Team, and they invited Teddy to celebrate his birthday with them, inviting  he, and I presume, his family, to their game, in town, against the Los Angeles Lakers.

                                                   For Teddy, it was like a dream come true, better than what he could have imagined.  It was nice to see this child get a compensation beyond his dreams that was so deserving.

                                                     Alas, I was a different kind of kid.  For me, Celeste Holm would have had to fly in as the Fairy Godmother, sing "Impossible!," and whisk me off to Manhattan, shop at Lord And Taylor's, then to Serendipity, and a Broadway show!

                                                       But that's me!

                                                        To those no show bitches, I say what kind of people are you?  What is wrong with you?  And what do you think this is teaching your children?

                                                           I would hold them all accountable!

                                                            Teddy, you just hold your head high, and walk past these social morons, like Audrey Hepburn did, at the close of "The Children's Hour."  It would be the classiest "Fuck you!" you could ever give!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a pivotal shot of Anne Shirley, as Laurel Dallas, getting ready for that ill-fated party.  Thank God Teddy's story had a happier outcome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!