What Are You Reading

[pgoat]

Just finished Gene Tierney's autobiography (goodness, that poor lady had quite a life) and I'm now starting The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz.

Just curious - did she mention Spencer Tracy in any detail? Not looking for any dirt, but I had just recently heard of that affair and had thought Hepburn was his one big Hollywood extramarital relationship.

 

[imoldfashioned]

Just curious - did she mention Spencer Tracy in any detail? Not looking for any dirt, but I had just recently heard of that affair and had thought Hepburn was his one big Hollywood extramarital relationship.

If I recall correctly, Tracy had quite an affair with Loretta Young as well.

 

[AmateisGal]

Just curious - did she mention Spencer Tracy in any detail? Not looking for any dirt, but I had just recently heard of that affair and had thought Hepburn was his one big Hollywood extramarital relationship.

The only mention she makes of him is when they were filming their movie, Plymouth Adventure. She called him "the finest film actor of my time" and she said her mother thought he was the most tormented man she had ever met. Gene also said this:

"A few times he asked me to lunch or dinner. He was relieved that my mother came along. These dates were perfectly respectable, but Tracy kept watching the door in case Katharine Hepburn walked in."

So I don't know that they had an affair, per se, but could the supposed "affair" have been a result of the whole publicity department trying to make it appear that two co-stars were in love? I had never heard that she had an affair with Spencer, so I don't know any of the details.

Her main relationships that she talks about are with Oleg Cassini, her first husband; JFK; Prince Aly Khan; and her second husband, W. Howard Lee.

 

[AmateisGal]

Ooh, you're in for a treat! I love that book!

It's fascinating, so far! I'm a bit of a novice to the whole "behind-the-scenes" history of Hollywood in the '30's and '40's, and it's eye-opening.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

You can cancel that tracker. He's only good IN the Amazon, not on.

Thank you Sir, you're a prince among men. I'll have to track down that version of Miracle on 34th Street, it sounds good.

Here you go. The Christmas Collection It's the last item on the last of three discs.

Hans plays an employee of Macy's. Not a big role, but a good sized one.


Lee

 

[AmateisGal]

Hubby gave me an early Christmas present - Ian McEwan's Atonement. I plan to start it tonight!

 

[LocktownDog]

Just started The Devil In The White City.

Richard

 

[Harp]

The Artist as Critic; Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde,
Edited by Richard Ellmann

Wilde at his most irreverent best.

 

[carebear]

I just got back from vacation, plane rides are good for reading.

One Bullet Away - Memoir of a Marine Infantry Plt Cmdr in Afg, who becomes a Rcn Plt Cmdr in Iraq. Dartmouth grad, very well written and worth reading.

Lord Kelvin's Machine - Steampunk

Use Enough Gun - Ruark on African hunting in the 50s and 60s

The Sky People - Beginning of a sci-fi trilogy, Habitable Venus and Mars and a US non-commie Russia, near future, I liked it

Gods and Generals - about halfway through

 

[sweetfrancaise]

I just picked up The Corrections. I'm not too absorbed yet, 'though I enjoy the writing style--has anyone here read the novel?

 

[LocktownDog]

Moved onto The Agnostic Reader.

Richard

 

[anon`]

I'd been reading Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf," but that's slightly stalled at the moment. Instead, I've been reading Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, a gift from my mum for Christmas.

 

[PADDY]

Vacancies' pages...

...for staff writers/reporters in the US [huh] Don't ask!!

 

[LocktownDog]

...for staff writers/reporters in the US [huh] Don't ask!!

Uh-oh. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Richard

 

[Feraud]

This weekend my wife and I found a cool independent bookstore on Long Island.
I bought and have begun reading this book- Blues People: Negro Music in White America.

 

[Avalon]

This weekend my wife and I found a cool independent bookstore on Long Island.

Is it Book Revue? 'Cause that's a great place.

Right now I'm reading "The Parade's Gone By..." by Kevin Brownlow - the quintessential book on silent film, by the people who made them. I've taken it out of the library before, but received my very own copy for Christmas.

 

[RedPop4]

To America : Personal reflections of an historian. Stephen E. Ambrose.

 

[LocktownDog]

Now onto Naval Customs by Leland Lovette, 1939.

 

[Feraud]

Is it Book Revue? 'Cause that's a great place.

That is it!

 

[Avalon]

That is it!

Wonderful little book shop. Used to frequent it with my (now-ex) boyfriend.