Knowing Hepburn and Other Curious Experiences

Résumé du livre

Playwright and screenwriter James Prideaux has written a number of film scripts for Katharine Hepburn and over a twenty-five year period known her as a friend and fellow professional. In this sharp-tongued, witty, and clear-eyed memoir of the star, other show business personalities enter and exit over the years including Elizabeth Taylor, John Travolta, Angela Lansbury, Raquel Welch, Julie Harris, Geraldine Page, Ryan O'Neal, Patrick Duffy, and Burt Reynolds. What is unusual is the portrait that comes through of Hepburn: a down-to-earth, funny, exhausting, eccentric, difficult, generous, self-obsessed megastar who by turns becomes vulnerable when she reminisces about her life with Spencer Tracy, outraged when she is slighted, protective of her friends and then dismissive, calculating about her image, which she flaunts at odd moments, tender with awestruck strangers, reclusive but generous, frank to a fault, bullying and overbearing, and totally professional - in short a full-blooded portrait of an extraordinary woman who is also the last of the great stars.