tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093406789467906233.post3609182623647001486..comments2024-03-03T17:23:47.413-05:00Comments on Yankee Jazz Beat: Carla Maria Rotolo (1941-2014)Eric Bruno Borgmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00802087263407478259noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093406789467906233.post-81096179652631400432022-03-08T22:41:26.628-05:002022-03-08T22:41:26.628-05:00I lost my sister to a horrible illness. Loved her ...I lost my sister to a horrible illness. Loved her more than anything. And told her so. As time goes on I love her more. Very sorry about Carla and Suze. They missed a lot.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00059539285339240487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093406789467906233.post-45032930339122791622021-08-12T14:41:16.176-04:002021-08-12T14:41:16.176-04:00Thanks Thanks memo rindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409154692943202674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093406789467906233.post-68505565733777014632019-12-07T16:54:17.720-05:002019-12-07T16:54:17.720-05:00Thank you for this necessary and balanced write-up...Thank you for this necessary and balanced write-up about poor Carla. So sad about the estrangement.Twiglethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16044080748027142610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093406789467906233.post-53276277217550008392015-11-20T06:49:17.849-05:002015-11-20T06:49:17.849-05:00Thanks Judy for your comments. It is sad with how ...Thanks Judy for your comments. It is sad with how their relationship ended up. Although it may be true that Mary did start drinking after her husband died suddenly in 1958, she wasn't responsible for the car accident. I'm sure Suze would have included her mother had been drinking at this time if that were the case. Suze moved in with Carla for a time before she and Dylan moved in together. They even worked behind-the-scenes on theater productions together. They also double dated at the time as well, so they were mostly getting along together at this period. Carla and Dylan were the same age and after awhile, Carla's opinion of him changed. He seemed to have wanted Suze's family to bud out, but that's what Italian American families can be like. The fact that Dylan wasn't truthful about himself and had a roaming eye wanting to be free to date other woman while still going with Suze, does show that Mary and eventually Carla were right to be concerned with Suze and Bob's relationship. Apparently, this caused some resentment between her and her mother and her and her sister. It does seem pretty obvious that their relationship would have eventually failed without Mary and Carla's "pressure." Perhaps the real rift between Suze and Carla occurred when Carla was interviewed by several Dylan authors. Suze felt that she should have kept quiet whereas Carla, who always had an interest in music, would have felt that this was important information for music history. It wasn't just Carla that Suze kept at arms length, she also didn't want to allow her mother to see her son. Later, when a cousin tried to get her to have a book signing at his shop and mentioned that they were family, her response was, "Enzo and Luca are my family."`<br /><br />I did encourage Carla to write down her many stories and remembrances back in 2005, but she didn't think the written word could capture the essence of her verbal stories.<br />Eric Bruno Borgmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00802087263407478259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093406789467906233.post-14756061685080989212015-11-19T23:34:08.229-05:002015-11-19T23:34:08.229-05:00i find it especially interesting that Suze shut Ca...i find it especially interesting that Suze shut Carla out of her life, that is pretty heavy, to do with a sister, they were the only children of their parents and shared some hard times growing up with their alcoholic emotionally abusive mother. Then, when she was old enough, Carla moved out and got her own place, leaving Suze alone with the mother, which Suze describes as a very hard time in her life, at 14, sitting across the table from her drunken mother screaming insults at her day after day, until some relatives intervened and took Suze to live part time with them. This is portrayed in Suze's autobiography. There was also a very bad car accident injuring both Suze and her mom pretty badly, and i wonder if her mom was under the influence at the time. I think things got better when her mother remarried. Suze met Dylan when she was 17 and when she was 18, moved in together with him. Both the mother and Carla applied a lot of negative pressure about the relationship, it was relentless according to Suze and led eventually to her going to Italy with her mother, partly to escape all the social pressure surrounding Dylan as he began to rise to fame. She was gone almost a year, and when she returned, resumed her relationship with Dylan, living together. He wrote to her almost every day while she was gone. Against this background, it struck me to learn in this memorial that there was no contact between the sisters in adulthood, apparently coming from Suze's side, not wanting her sister in her life. It makes me wonder what it was Suze was trying to avoid or escape from. I wonder if Suze was also cut off from her mother during that same period of time. I'm sure Carla was shocked to learn of Suze's death, but also, obviously, she was well aware of the complete cut off between them, and perhaps of the reasons for it. Too bad Carla didn't write an autobiography. She had an interesting and historic life. judy Weintraubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04024697670730038856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093406789467906233.post-69186916718961197662015-05-01T18:02:08.989-04:002015-05-01T18:02:08.989-04:00How does one have a "bad kitchen fall?" ...How does one have a "bad kitchen fall?" Wonder what happened. At any rate, RIP Ms Rotolo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093406789467906233.post-71449454623308831802015-04-23T23:11:57.766-04:002015-04-23T23:11:57.766-04:00Really interesting article, a lot of valuable inf...Really interesting article, a lot of valuable information. stevehttp://www.bobdylancommentaries.comnoreply@blogger.com