At Home With Kate

[karina]

www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471783765/sr=1-1/qid=1146601207/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-0053008-1823801?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=books

Another book to look forward to in October by Kate's cook's daughter. After its initial postponement, glad this is finally going to be published.

[Cate]

Oh that's awesome!! Can't wait. Thanks Karina

[isis]

Thanks for the scoop, i am anxious to buy it....
Please, the first who buy it give us his or her thought

[Richard]

I'm definitely going to purchase that book. It sounds like it's right up my alley, and by that I mean it seems very intimate.

[Shaun]

I'm giddy! The books written by those who knew Kate on a personal level always turn out to be the best. Has anyone seen some of Kate's self portraits? Those ought to be good.

[isis]

Here is the book description :

A new book about Katharine Hepburn that goes where none of its predecessors have been able to go -- beyond the silver screen and into the daily life of the glamorous and mysterious film icon. Eileen Considine-Meara takes readers into Kate's townhouse on 49th Street in New York and introduces the many characters -- friends, neighbors, and fans -- who were welcomed and entertained in it, from Lauren Bacall to Michael Jackson to Stephen Sondheim. We learn that Kate was demanding and at times controlling -- but we also learn of her wonderful intelligence, sense of humor, and her abiding character, generosity, and sense of loyalty to those she loved. She loved to work hard in her garden, she loved to swim at the beach off her estate in Connecticut, and most of all, she loved to read in front of a roaring fire, even in the sweltering summer. This book includes rare photographs, self-portraits drawn by Hepburn, and personal memorabilia that Kate bequeathed to Eileen's mother, Norah Considine, as well as a delightful assortment of tasty and slightly eccentric recipes that Kate, an expert hostess, enjoyed and asked that Norah serve at her frequent cocktail and dinner parties. At Home with Kate is a complete delight.

[isis]

ooohhh new photos, self-portaits ... ;D

[isis]

If you want to see the cover :

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471783765.html

[Richard]

That's just awesome. I can't wait to see the photos.

[Shaun]

The cover is splendid.

[kathfan88]

That sounds like a good book. I can't wait to read it.

[dreamer]

Is was a splendid book - just finished - and still tears in my eyes.

It is written with respect and love - got more in love with the private person Kate

Norah I must say - wauh what a warm and loving personality

Kate lies on the floor painting - grand (so do I )

What I did like most - as a reader you get a peek but without the feeling that there is something said that shouldn't be said - find it is written with the tenderness for Kate as it should be - there might be some who misses the great new revelations - no .. one find the private caring Kate - just great

[Sherry]

Yep, this is a very nice book. No big revelations just a lot of sweet stories about Kate and Nora and their unique friendship. Kate's generosity is on display throughout. It also gives you a clue to how demanding the kind of fame that she had can be -- the endless letters from fans, the solicitations, invitations and calls, etc. Kate handled it all remarkably well with dignity and class. And although it is sad to reach the end when Kate passed away, it's uplifting to know that she was surrounded by the love of people who cared for her deeply.

[dreamer]

AT HOME WITH KATE
Cook-and-tell tales of Hepburn

BY DANIEL BUBBEO - STAFF WRITER

Turner Classic Movies will screen Hepburn's rarely seen first film, "A Bill of Divorcement," Jan. 28 at 7:15 a.m.

Guess who came to dinner at Katharine Hepburn's house? Warren Beatty, Michael Jackson and, yes, Sidney Poitier were just a few of the showbiz notables who dropped by Kate the great's Manhattan town house at 244 E. 49th St. to share hearty meals dished up by Hepburn's cook, housekeeper and friend of 30 years, Norah Considine.

Now, just in time to mark the diamond anniversary of Kate's screen debut, 1932's "A Bill of Divorcement," Considine's daughter, Eileen Considine-Meara, dishes out "At Home With Kate: Growing Up in Katharine Hepburn's Household" (Wiley, $24.95), a smorgasbord of recollections about the Oscar-winning actress as well as tasty recipes for everything from "Kate's Brownies" to "Stephen Sondheim's gazpacho."

"Sitting down with her family and friends was very, very important to her," Considine-Meara, 43, said. "She also had the luxury of a full-time cook. The prices at restaurants gave her indigestion. She was not a frivolous woman. But her guests always got a lovely meal. She always used to say, 'There's no better restaurant than Norah's at 244.' That's where she was comfortable."

Sandwiched among the recipes (Hepburn loved anything with red meat and lots of butter) are stories about the celebrities who dropped by. Dessert with Martina Navratilova was topped off with the tennis ace giving her winning racket to Hepburn. And then there was the Gloved One, who overcame his shyness to converse with Kate about Spencer Tracy over dinner. As a thank-you, a few nights later Jackson had a stretch limo arrive to take Hepburn, some of her friends and Norah to his concert at Madison Square Garden.

Considine-Meara admits that her mom sometimes found Hepburn to be a demanding boss, but always a generous one. Take the time Hepburn saw a picture of Considine-Meara as a child and, rather than saying, "She's lovely," remarked that her teeth were crooked. An appointment was immediately arranged with Hepburn's Central Park West dentist, and the actress footed the bill to have the girl's teeth straightened, a three-year ordeal.

The author's first impression of Hepburn, however, was quite different. "She was very beautiful. She had style, and to a young, impressionable girl that stood out. I thought she seemed to have so much freedom, she was her own boss," Considine-Meara said. "She was an interesting role model. A whole house of people who revolved around her. It really was another world."

And for the private Hepburn, a world she kept to herself. Still, Considine-Meara has no doubt that Hepburn would have been delighted by the book. "It details her on a day-to-day basis, but it does sort of validate who Kate Hepburn is," she says. "This is the person I saw, who my family saw. She was part of my extended family. And a kind and loyal friend."

Turner Classic Movies will screen Hepburn’s rarely seen first film, "A Bill of Divorcement," Jan. 28 at 7:15 a.m.


www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-2know5054028jan17,0,2428465.story

[Judy]

dreamer said:

AT HOME WITH KATE
Cook-and-tell tales of Hepburn

BY DANIEL BUBBEO - STAFF WRITER

Turner Classic Movies will screen Hepburn's rarely seen first film, "A Bill of Divorcement," Jan. 28 at 7:15 a.m.

Guess who came to dinner at Katharine Hepburn's house? Warren Beatty, Michael Jackson and, yes, Sidney Poitier were just a few of the showbiz notables who dropped by Kate the great's Manhattan town house at 244 E. 49th St. to share hearty meals dished up by Hepburn's cook, housekeeper and friend of 30 years, Norah Considine.

Now, just in time to mark the diamond anniversary of Kate's screen debut, 1932's "A Bill of Divorcement," Considine's daughter, Eileen Considine-Meara, dishes out "At Home With Kate: Growing Up in Katharine Hepburn's Household" (Wiley, $24.95), a smorgasbord of recollections about the Oscar-winning actress as well as tasty recipes for everything from "Kate's Brownies" to "Stephen Sondheim's gazpacho."

"Sitting down with her family and friends was very, very important to her," Considine-Meara, 43, said. "She also had the luxury of a full-time cook. The prices at restaurants gave her indigestion. She was not a frivolous woman. But her guests always got a lovely meal. She always used to say, 'There's no better restaurant than Norah's at 244.' That's where she was comfortable."

Sandwiched among the recipes (Hepburn loved anything with red meat and lots of butter) are stories about the celebrities who dropped by. Dessert with Martina Navratilova was topped off with the tennis ace giving her winning racket to Hepburn. And then there was the Gloved One, who overcame his shyness to converse with Kate about Spencer Tracy over dinner. As a thank-you, a few nights later Jackson had a stretch limo arrive to take Hepburn, some of her friends and Norah to his concert at Madison Square Garden.

Considine-Meara admits that her mom sometimes found Hepburn to be a demanding boss, but always a generous one. Take the time Hepburn saw a picture of Considine-Meara as a child and, rather than saying, "She's lovely," remarked that her teeth were crooked. An appointment was immediately arranged with Hepburn's Central Park West dentist, and the actress footed the bill to have the girl's teeth straightened, a three-year ordeal.

The author's first impression of Hepburn, however, was quite different. "She was very beautiful. She had style, and to a young, impressionable girl that stood out. I thought she seemed to have so much freedom, she was her own boss," Considine-Meara said. "She was an interesting role model. A whole house of people who revolved around her. It really was another world."

And for the private Hepburn, a world she kept to herself. Still, Considine-Meara has no doubt that Hepburn would have been delighted by the book. "It details her on a day-to-day basis, but it does sort of validate who Kate Hepburn is," she says. "This is the person I saw, who my family saw. She was part of my extended family. And a kind and loyal friend."

Turner Classic Movies will screen Hepburn’s rarely seen first film, "A Bill of Divorcement," Jan. 28 at 7:15 a.m.


www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-2know5054028jan17,0,2428465.story

You beat me to it, dreamer. I was just going to post this review...Judy