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Post by Tracy Lord on Jul 19, 2009 19:16:11 GMT -5
I just found this on amazon and I must say I am excited for it! It comes out in late October of this year.  Product Description Katharine Hepburn is a star of the silver screen, fashion icon, and quintessential class act. This visually arresting volume offers an intimate view into the life of a Hollywood giant - from her early years in the studio system, through the famed Spencer Tracy period, to her later life as a grand dame of cinema - and sheds new light on the woman named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female movie star in the history of American cinema. This latest volume in the acclaimed "A Life in Pictures" series has the series' trademark of stellar curration of celebrity photographs and casual snapshots. A dazzling collection befitting a true glamour goddess, "Katharine Hepburn" captures the life of a legend, onscreen and off. www.amazon.com/Katharine-Hepburn-Pictures-Pierre-Henri-Verlhac/dp/0811869474/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248048343&sr=8-14 |
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Post by babytheleopard on Jul 19, 2009 19:23:07 GMT -5
Wow that looks cool, can't wait for it to come out! ;D
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Post by gottamatch on Jul 19, 2009 20:43:59 GMT -5
Looks awwwesome! I hope they get it in Aussie stores!  Jess |
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Post by Sofia on Jul 20, 2009 5:03:09 GMT -5
Can't wait for october, then!
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Post by Tracy Lord on Jul 20, 2009 13:47:24 GMT -5
I have so many Kate picture books but yet I still want this one hehe. I guess you can't have enough of them, they are the best.
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Post by CrazyForKate on Oct 20, 2009 15:48:31 GMT -5
I looked up a review on Amazon and it says the book is sloppily edited and full of errors (such as getting her dates of birth and death wrong), and mislabels obvious films (claims "undated" photos that are really famous images/movies). I know an Amazon reviewer isn't a concrete source, but...be cautious. If the thing about the dates is true, then why bother? The creators clearly didn't.
Oh, and Higham's introduction is apparently terrible.
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Post by Judy on Oct 20, 2009 16:27:22 GMT -5
I looked up a review on Amazon and it says the book is sloppily edited and full of errors (such as getting her dates of birth and death wrong), and mislabels obvious films (claims "undated" photos that are really famous images/movies). I know an Amazon reviewer isn't a concrete source, but...be cautious. If the thing about the dates is true, then why bother? The creators clearly didn't. Oh, and Higham's introduction is apparently terrible. I know the Amazon reviewer and the review is spot on. Also I have the book and can vouch for the accuracy of that review. The Higham intro is full of unsubstantiated nonsense and errors, like the birth year. Yet he uses the fact that he wrote the first bio of her as his claim to authority. That book, too, is poorly written, though he DID get to interview many who do not appear in other books. But THIS one is just awful. When I read the first incorrect caption, I thought, okay, that happens everywhere now - even in Kate's ME. Then I read another ridiculous one - such as identifying Kate and Katharine Houghton walking on the studio lot during the filming of GWCTD as Kate and a crew member on the set of Suddenly, Last Summer - and another - such as the caption for a Cecil Beaton 60's photo of Kate as having been taken in 1990. And on and on. The book's full of them. It became sort of funny after a while. Incredible. And then, in the back, the publisher has the nerve to say that any errors will be fixed in future printings. Almost as if they KNEW it was full of mistakes. That's a first. Is that the way we are publishing books now? Just put any old thing down and if enough people call you on it, fix it in the next printing. Sloppy and stupid. Kate deserves better. The photos, however, are beautiful with a few exceptions of poor reproduction and some of them are those we've seen on those photo licensing places - stolen, I have no doubt - like one of her rehearsing Antony & Cleopatra with Robert Ryan or another of her sitting at her makeup table talking to Sidney Lumet with Dean Stockwell in the doorway. So those are fun to have. My advice is to skip the words. Just look at the pictures. They're beautiful - especially the cover shot. |
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Post by CrazyForKate on Oct 20, 2009 20:51:02 GMT -5
What surprises me is that he gets her date of death wrong. It was six years ago! Could he really not have spent five seconds on Google? Unless Kate actually died a decade earlier and her family is all lying about it and this somehow means she never had an affair with Tracy...conspiracy!!!! *Twilight Zone*
Well, in the name of $45 this student will just go down to the local Indigo and browse through it. I have no doubt any new photos will appear on this site in due time.
SEQUEL: I did go to Indigo. The pictures were nice, but in the end, not enough to tempt me out of $55 (ah, Canadian prices). And Charles Higham reached new lows. But I will be back in March for the Chandler!
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Post by martha on Oct 21, 2009 22:56:35 GMT -5
The photos, however, are beautiful with a few exceptions of poor reproduction and some of them are those we've seen on those photo licensing places - stolen, I have no doubt - like one of her rehearsing Antony & Cleopatra with Robert Ryan or another of her sitting at her makeup table talking to Sidney Lumet with Dean Stockwell in the doorway. So those are fun to have. My advice is to skip the words. Just look at the pictures. They're beautiful - especially the cover shot. i purchased this. my heart sank with the words (intro, caption, you've nailed it everyone) and the reproduction value of some of the images. but its outsized (the images) .. and that's what its about, this book. i totally agree, ms. judy. |
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Post by Tracy Lord on Dec 12, 2009 11:17:49 GMT -5
I have a friend that bought it and said the photos weren't anything we haven't seen already but she didn't mention the birth date etc. I can't believe it. Why would someone go to the trouble of making a book on Kate and they doing it sloppily? I am very disapointed. But I am glad I went for the Bette Davis Larger than Life book instead of this one!
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Just stumbled upon this interesting board.. Does anyone have any video interviews with KH?? Or maybe transcripts of them? I´ve been especially looking for the full version of the famous Cavett one forever and ever... 