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Post by martha on Aug 28, 2008 16:31:10 GMT -5
ME. in kate's slightly altered (absolutely appropriated) and often self-edited audio tour of her own life ... i'm re-reading and listening (for the first time) at this moment ...
ah .. we're now at a point where kate is talking about laurette taylor who she saw the original production in GLASS MENAGERIE in chicago (before it traveled on to broadway)! the blackstone hotel (still exists, just now being converted to a fancy hotel and co-op combination i believe) and then to the theatre ... ah, my friends. we seek what little things tie us this amazing person, this 'creature', this kate. i'm also reading a biography of laurette ... about whom kate observes , related to laurette's comfort in a theatre and a theatrical role: "this was her life . .. she knew how to do this in her bones" .. ah. excuse me my rhapsodic enjoyment of the confluence of two streams of biographical reverie in my little world ...
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Post by martha on Aug 28, 2008 23:45:11 GMT -5
o.k. .. one of my favorite sections among many favorite sections of this fine tome is a paragraph or so i'm sure i shared before ... but here goes again. in the chapter on cukor. this section, page 174 I was there at dinner once: dessert -- a beautiful cake came in -- seventy candles. Judy Garland quietly stood, and in her own particular hushed and heartbreaking voice she sang: Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, dear Ethel, Happy ... It was Ethel Barrymore's seventieth birthday. We all wept with joy and feeling and whatever it was. It was romantic. And all the shine. And that Selznick-Brice-Judy-Spencer-Peck-Walpole-Maugham atmosphere.
Hearing Kate actually reading those lines today? Took my breath away.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Aug 29, 2008 3:44:15 GMT -5
I'm so happy you're devouring Kate's Me, chum! And of course that Judy shoutout would be your favorite! There's another one, I believe, in the Mayer chapter. I would post something a little more coherent, but at the risk of sounding obnoxious I am going to stop myself.
Tell me to go sleepybyes Mommapantsizzlepootiddly.
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Post by martha on Aug 29, 2008 8:33:01 GMT -5
I'm so happy you're devouring Kate's Me, chum! And of course that Judy shoutout would be your favorite! There's another one, I believe, in the Mayer chapter. I would post something a little more coherent, but at the risk of sounding obnoxious I am going to stop myself. Tell me to go sleepybyes Mommapantsizzlepootiddly. ah yes, the long pondering of the challenge of living, just living, for mysteriously talented people like judy and spence (kate combines that ponder in the mayer chapter) .. as kate combines the pondering of spence and laurette taylor in an earlier chapter. kate's sage observation: for these special creatures, the work was easy (for the rest of us, their work product was a kind of magic) .. the living was hard. i've been loving and going back to that mayer chapter piece, for years. this long sit with kate's voice, full on, has been a long time... between reads.
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Post by Tracy Lord on Sept 14, 2008 18:28:15 GMT -5
I'm dying to have the audiobook to this! My Library says they have a copy but I've looked every time I go and it isn't there plus it's on tape not cd :/ I hope to get it one day.
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Post by Hep on Sept 14, 2008 21:37:20 GMT -5
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Post by Jone on Oct 1, 2008 8:39:44 GMT -5
The book has just arrived!!! Oh I'm gonna start reading right now!!!
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Post by CrazyForKate on Oct 28, 2009 15:15:47 GMT -5
One question. Is there anywhere I can find a download of the audiobook? Can't seem to find one on amazon, and google didn't help. Any ideas?
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Oct 28, 2009 22:36:43 GMT -5
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Post by CrazyForKate on Oct 28, 2009 22:44:39 GMT -5
Thanks, but got to BitTorrent first (ah, BitTorrent, friend of those with no money and good anti-virus)...wow, they cut out a lot of stuff.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Oct 28, 2009 22:55:05 GMT -5
Yes, she did. "Memorial Day" is every bit as relevant as ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN THAT WOMAN'S LIFE. Alnd "Willie Rose and His Maserati" is another work of fine literature. That mastery of the written word should be taught in schools.
But more than anything, I just want to hear Kate say, "Fuck the roots!"
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Post by CrazyForKate on Oct 29, 2009 15:34:34 GMT -5
I for one miss Leaving the California House- my favourite chapter. Also, Leland Hayward suddenly doesn't exist. Oh, well, at least they kept some of the end, as well as a few of the movie descriptions.
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Post by charliesgirl7681 on Dec 3, 2009 10:42:19 GMT -5
I finished reading the book about a week ago and finally hunted down the audio book. When she started reading her letter to Spence and gets choaked up on the first line I got goosebumps.
I love hearing her reading it, even though its not the full book. She adds so much more, her laughing at herself and adding a few more bits. Its great.
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Post by carol on Apr 17, 2010 6:30:04 GMT -5
'Me' is one of my favourite books! I have so many fav parts in it that I can't choose what my fvaourite one is, but I really like 'First trip to Hollywood' and 'Brief encounter'. I need to get the audio book!
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Post by Serena on Aug 15, 2010 16:11:00 GMT -5
I have a question about something in the book: when Kate describes meeting Spencer's daughter Susie for the first time, she says "All of a sudden, almost following us, came a girl..." Now, I somehow imagined that they first met after Spencer died, but since Susie was born in 1932 she was 35 by that time. Maybe 35 year old females can still be called girls (I hope so because I'm close to that age) ;D, but maybe I'm wrong and they met earlier?
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