Joely Redgrave: Bisexual Father And Marxist Mother

"Freedom of the press, and it being used responsibly, are very hot topics at present given the phone hacking investigation," writes Joely Richardson, in The Daily Telegraph.
"Last week a national newspaper published excerpts from an unauthorised biography titled The House of Redgrave — The Secret Lives of the Theatrical Dynasty...
"The newspaper pulled out a truncated version of a sentence that stated “the day Vanessa Redgrave walked in to find her husband in bed with her father”. It repeatedly ran this statement as its headline. If one were to have read the whole piece, it did mention right at the very end — small print as it were — that “someone (now dead) supposedly said it to someone”.
"If we are to enter a phase of journalism where “rumour has it” is printable, then no one is safe. It’s vastly irresponsible and as my favourite Chinese whisper joke goes “send reinforcements we’re going to advance” whisper, whisper down the line, “what did he say?” — “He said send three and fourpence we’re going to a dance!”.
"The argument of “today’s news, tomorrow’s fish and chips” no longer holds, with information stored on the internet. This should heighten the bar of responsibility, not lower it.
"The articles reduced my parents to the labels of “Bisexual Father and Marxist Mother”. Myopic to say the least. My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. In fact she has not been a member of any political party for decades. In the last two general elections she has voted Liberal Democrat. For the past 16 years she has been a Unicef Global Goodwill Ambassador.
"My father’s bisexuality is a footnote if anything, not a headline of what defined his great contribution to the arts. Are Tennessee Williams or Terence Rattigan known as “gay playwrights”?" [Err, yes - Fagburn].

The Daily Mail - for it was they - have now doctored the headline and the article which read; "Revealed: The day Vanessa Redgrave found her husband in bed with her father" so it now reads "The cursed legacy that still haunts Vanessa Redgrave"
Here's the original version.
Thankfully Fagburn's favourite extract from this rather silly-sounding book "Vanessa Redgrave and the red sex slaves: How her bid to start Marxist revolution plunged her into bizarre scandal" is still available untouched.
Fagburn does love Vanessa - but she is almost as ridiculously litigious as Elton John.