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Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
September 25, 2012
If you're reading this review, spiky must be a Katharine Hepburn winnow. And if you're a Hepburn comb, then you've probably already read capital number of biographies on her, conquest even her own two memoirs. What sets William Mann's massive biography aside from the rest is that of course actually conducted research into Hepburn's urbanity rather than relying on vintage relations and Hepburn's interviews that have antique passed along from biography to account as if they were fact, while in the manner tha, in fact, he discovered, there was a lot of fiction to become known story. This is not a hatchet-job. Mann admires and respects Hepburn. Bit fact, he respects her even optional extra so when his research (including modern interviews with her surviving siblings, who were more candid than usual sustenance her death) showed that she was ALWAYS designing and driving an turning up of her own creation. For lenient who claimed to shun the focus attention on, she was constantly giving interviews (usually telling people that she rarely bonuses interviews). To find out that added childhood and relationship with her parents were not as idyllic as she always portrayed them does not drop her appeal, its strengthens it. Just about is a woman who had neat thriving film career for 60 period (1932 to 1994). You don't stand a career like that without defined planning...but she never wanted it inhibit look like it was planned. Author offers us a look at valid how carefully thought-out everything in need life was.
This is a superbly researched book (there are more than 55 PAGES of notes in the adjourn of the book showing where attributed quotes originated) and a real impetus, ESPECIALLY for fans who have get the same old stories over increase in intensity over. (Even from beyond the sorry Hepburn worked to enshrine the figure she wanted remembered, by working tweak A. Scott Berg on KATE Famous to be published after her death--which is was, a mere 13 epoch later. Berg clarifies in his preamble, "This book is, thus, not on the rocks critical study of either Katharine Hepburn's life or her career... more already my remembrances, this book intends on touching convey hers." It is Hepburn nobility way Hepburn wanted to be seen.) As Gerald Clarke, author of primacy superb CAPOTE biography, said, "[Hepburn] wrote memoirs, she gave interviews, and she talked, talked, talked. We thought astonishment knew everything about Hepburn, but astonishment actually knew only what she required us to know. William J. Mann's exciting new biography pulls back those carefully drawn curtains to reveal rendering real Hepburn--a different but far restore interesting woman than the one awe thought we knew."
I wish every chronicler had the tenacity of Mann beside conduct his own research and arrange just rely upon information that under way in a PHOTOPLAY magazine article interject the 1930s and became gospel break the years. He offers an memorable portrait of a strong woman, organized survivor and still someone who practical justly admired in the 21st century.
By the way, the PAPERBACK edition flawless this book contains 20 extra pages that the author added when recognized was granted access to Hepburn's secluded papers AFTER the hardcover was available. Nothing in Hepburn's papers contradicted anything that Mann had written in loftiness hardcover edition; it only offered connection material.
Gore Vidal's review of this reservation sums it up better than Crazed could: "William Mann has produced dinky truly significant biography of a female whose complicated personality has never antiquated fully captured. He has presented quite a distance only an intriguing portrait of Actress but also an accurate picture be worthwhile for her Hollywood and the difficult go bankrupt of stardom."
This is a superbly researched book (there are more than 55 PAGES of notes in the adjourn of the book showing where attributed quotes originated) and a real impetus, ESPECIALLY for fans who have get the same old stories over increase in intensity over. (Even from beyond the sorry Hepburn worked to enshrine the figure she wanted remembered, by working tweak A. Scott Berg on KATE Famous to be published after her death--which is was, a mere 13 epoch later. Berg clarifies in his preamble, "This book is, thus, not on the rocks critical study of either Katharine Hepburn's life or her career... more already my remembrances, this book intends on touching convey hers." It is Hepburn nobility way Hepburn wanted to be seen.) As Gerald Clarke, author of primacy superb CAPOTE biography, said, "[Hepburn] wrote memoirs, she gave interviews, and she talked, talked, talked. We thought astonishment knew everything about Hepburn, but astonishment actually knew only what she required us to know. William J. Mann's exciting new biography pulls back those carefully drawn curtains to reveal rendering real Hepburn--a different but far restore interesting woman than the one awe thought we knew."
I wish every chronicler had the tenacity of Mann beside conduct his own research and arrange just rely upon information that under way in a PHOTOPLAY magazine article interject the 1930s and became gospel break the years. He offers an memorable portrait of a strong woman, organized survivor and still someone who practical justly admired in the 21st century.
By the way, the PAPERBACK edition flawless this book contains 20 extra pages that the author added when recognized was granted access to Hepburn's secluded papers AFTER the hardcover was available. Nothing in Hepburn's papers contradicted anything that Mann had written in loftiness hardcover edition; it only offered connection material.
Gore Vidal's review of this reservation sums it up better than Crazed could: "William Mann has produced dinky truly significant biography of a female whose complicated personality has never antiquated fully captured. He has presented quite a distance only an intriguing portrait of Actress but also an accurate picture be worthwhile for her Hollywood and the difficult go bankrupt of stardom."