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Post by Shaun on Jun 13, 2005 8:46:06 GMT -5
Does anyone know if any authors have a new Kate biography in the works? It would be great to read one that covered her life and career respectably and included new details about her life without sounding like some tabloid rag.
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Post by smith on Jun 13, 2005 9:26:46 GMT -5
There are a number of books coming up . Whether you call them respectable depends on your point of view .
There are at least 2 due out this year . One by William J Mann who is an historian of gay Hollywood . He is a decent writer - his book is going to focus on Katharine's persona and yes I believe he will claim she is gay
Another by Robert J Parrish - I don't have high hopes for this one .
A decent biography takes years to write and I would be concerned that neither of these writers have accessed the thousands of letters and items that Katharine donated to the Academy
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Post by Cate on Jun 13, 2005 16:47:54 GMT -5
Was it Anne Edwards or Barbara Leaming who was supposed to be coming out with a follow-up to her biography? Does anyone know when that will be?
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Post by smith on Jun 14, 2005 7:25:05 GMT -5
I doubt that Leaming or Anne Edwards would publish a new updated biography . Anne Edwards actually updated her 1985 book in 2000 but she just added some scurrilous claims and didn't give sources or back up her new material - Then in 2003 she came out with the honeymoon story which of course is not true . So the cynic in me saw that as as an attempt to cash in - she's gone back to wherever she came from .
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