Originally posted by vandervelde Marc Eliot's biography of Cary Grant - arrived to-day by post.
Very detailed biography by no means sensationalistic yet sounds like psychological novel. Full of data (*how much was week sallary, was studio in financial troubles, was the acotr on loan or on contract, box office result upon opening week) but at the same time sharp in description of personalities.
Grant was spying his own wife Barbara Hutton on the order of J. E. Hoover.
He loved to spend most of the day in his bed and could talk only about the money and career. Besides Randolph Scott, he spent a lot of time with Howard Hughes.
Grant's mother had spent 19 years in asylum probably sane.
Etc.
I finished yesterday Thieves fall out by Gore Vidal (under pseudonym Cameron Kay) and I purchased it via abebooks very cheap after I had read fabulous reviews.
Spy trash novel full of conventions but one twist: a gay subtext (Egyptian police officer preffer men). But, the main character falls in love with beautiful German spy Anna Mueller and they escaped at the end: happy end is so pleasing.
I wouldn't mind more descriptions, some chapters cosist almost exslusively of dialogs.
What are you reading?
11 Apr '16 14:24
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