Biographies - good and bad

[smith]

Catherine

Its an hilarious read and I believe one of the rarer books on Katharine .

Enjoy

Kerrie

[Shaun]

I have got to read that book now! Catherine, where did you get your copy?

[Richard]

Ahhhhhhh! I'm buying that book!

I too Catherine would like to know where you got it.

[karina]

Catherine, you're making me want to go and read it all over again. I bought it from Amazon a couple of years ago (absolutely brand new from their "used" section) and read it twice straight off - but it's definitely due for another read through. Definitely one of the very best KH books around.

[Cate]

I got it off amazon.com. Used but in mint condition for around $8 including shipping! It is a great read although I find myself losing concentration when he begins to talk about himself ;D

[Cate]

Another funny part (does anyone know what movie they went to see in Westwood? I think I figured out Joan Van Ark was the actress).

"She's got a lovely face but she can't act and she's a lard ass."
"A what?" I asked, startled.
"A lard ass," said Kate again, loud and clear. Her voice rang over the parking lot.

OK one more and I'll stop! It's just too funny.

Kate refused to park underground, so she drove in an ever-widening circle around the Music Center trying to find a place to park. Phyllis complained, gently at first and then vehemently, that we were getting farther and farther from the theatre.
"Remember Alan's foot," she said, pointedly. Alan said nothing.
"Aha!" cried Kate. She had discovered an empty lot with a barricade across the entrance to keep people like us out. She stopped the car and leaped out.
"What are you doing?" I yelled at her.
"I'm going to lift the barricade," she said, "and in we'll go."
"Let me do it!" I shouted.
"You stay where you are. I'll do it!" she shouted back. So the three of us sat in the car while the woman in her sixties struggled to raise the barricade. I felt like a perfect jackass as she huffed and puffed and heaved and groaned but couldn't budge the barricade at all.
"Kate! Kate, get back in the car!" Phyllis called, annoyed.
She had to. Finally.

[Sherry]

Glad you are enjoying Prideaux's book -- really is a very interesting look at Kate in the later part of her life.
You'll enjoy the parts describing the making of the TV movies that he did with her.
Best thing about his book -- he liked her -- loved her --admired and appreciated her. Loved her sense of fun, her foibles, her quirks, everything.
Wait'll you get to the part where he describes her as being "cute as a button".

Sherry

[Cate]

I can't wait

[gypsygem81]

Thanks for posting those interesting snippets from the book Catherine. They were great stories! I really appreciate it. You guys are all such huge fans, I feel like such a novice! I have so much work ahead of me to reach your levels!!

Love Gem

[Shaun]

Yeah you've got a lot of work to do to be on the same level as God ;D

Would you call this the best book about Kate that wasn't written by her?

[Cate]

I'm still trying to decide, Shaun. The Prideaux book focuses a lot on himself... which I tend to skip over sometimes. ;D So far, Berg's book is second (after Me). But I must say, there are some hilarious stories in here. I'm finding out things that I didn't know (at least according to Prideaux -- rhymage!):

She didn't like music (?!! -- he thinks she considered it "noise")
Didn't like perfume of any sort ("What's that smell?" "cologne" "Well, don't ever wear it again.")

[Shaun]

Hmm I find it hard to believe that she didn't like music. I'm sure she liked classical, didn't she?

[Shaun]

In ME she said that she had a copy of the Coco soundtrack but when she went home to play it she realized she didn't have a record player. Maybe Kate wasn't too keen on musisc.

[HollywoodHepcat]

She really adored Cole Porter...even recorded some of his songs...she and Spence used to listen to Brahms together on George C's backyard with the portable player..but other than that, I don't think that music was a form of art that interested her as much as say, oh drawing. Maybe she didn't like music as much because she felt she couldn't sing...

[Cate]

Ha! Amber, I was thinking the same. I wonder if it was one of few things she couldn't do and therefore pushed it aside. She did learn the piano in a pretty short amount of time for The African Queen didn't she? Because she didn't want a double or something. I had heard she listened to classical with Spence but that could also be because it was Spence Whenever her neighbor played the piano at crazy hours of the night -- which, knowing Kate that probably meant any time after 3 in the afternoon -- she would bang on the window... actually go outside to the communal garden and look into his windows. Sometimes I think she was crazy but then I read something else that makes me think she had it all together. ;D