Katharine the Great: A Lifetime of Secrets Revealed... (1907-1950)

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Compiled over a period of 45 years, and based on hundreds of interviews with people who knew her, this is the best and most unapologetic biography of Katharine Hepburn's early career ever penned. You've read what KATE REMEMBERED....Here's what Katharine Hepburn wanted to forget.

FOREWORD Magazine, a respected literary review based in Michigan, nominated it as one of ten finalists for BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2004 in their Book of the Year Awards. The winner of that contest will be announced in NYC in June of 2005.

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AWFUL.....!!!.......2007-06-01

I couldn't even finish this book because I found myself either rolling my eyes and saying "Oh please" as I was reading it. There were more stories about the alleged gay trysts of Hollywood actors than about Katharine Hepburn herself. Where does this author get his information? This book is full of untruths and gossip. This book basically says that all men in Hollywood were either gay or bisexual. Everyone from Desi Arnaz to Jimmy Stewart to Gary Cooper were all into men and sleeping with one another. Sheesh. Wishful thinking on the authors part? If the male actors were friends they were also lovers according to this author. Amazingly, all the handsome actors in Hollywood were gay or bisexual. The less attractive male celebrities were never mentioned as being anything but straight. This book is supposed to be about Katharine Hepburn not the supposed same sex flings of Hollywood actors.
In the book, Ms. Hepburn comes off as a gossipy, jealous, nympho who is either sleeping with everyone(male or female) who comes in her path or stabbing them in the back. I'm not saying Katharine Hepburn was a saint but the lies and misinformation in this book are just too hard to take. For instance, the book says Jimmy Stewart was born in the state of Indiana but he in fact was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania. The author can never seem to get his facts together. This book is more like the Enquirer or the Star magazine than an actual biography.
If you like trashy, sleazy, mostly fictional books that try and masquerade as biographies then this book is for you.
If you want to read a real biography on this legendary actress' life, look elsewhere.

Ew........2006-12-31

Just ew. In addition to being truly painfully written, this is gross. Nothing is sourced, all the dialogue (no matter who allegedly spoke it) uses exactly the same vocabulary, intonation, etc., and overall the book seems to be more about the author (whom I now believe is in desperate need of psychiatric help) than about Katharine Hepburn. Interesting, also, that all the so-called "scandalous" material seems to come from only a few people, none of whom have ever been anything but remotely associated with Hepburn. The author seems to be in constant need to drive home the shock value of his assertions: Hepburn was bisexual! She was promiscuous! and etc. Even if she was (which he definitely has not managed to prove), so what? She still stands as one of the greatest and most talented actors of all time, and people still get enormous enjoyment out of her movies. In addition to this, she was a far better and more interesting writer than the author of this fictional book.
The existence of this book makes a sweeping negative statement about us as a society--that a sick, pathetic individual like this author could publish anything, and that he would be able to continue publishing trash. After reading 100 pages I feel as though I need a shower--I am incredibly ashamed of myself for reading even one page.
Besides the disgustingness and nonexistent research of this book, it was incredibly boring. It exists mostly as a laundry list of supposed affairs and dissipations, all written in ungrammatical boring prose. This is probably this book's greatest sin--no matter how unconventional Katharine Hepburn's life was, I don't think anyone would argue that it was boring.

should have been better.......2006-10-10

The book gets 3 stars because of sloppy editing and proofreading (i.e.p.148: "He housed Kate and Laura and the Hays-Adams Hotel" and clearly wrong information: p. 138 "In the late 1930s, when she was a struggling actress, Katharine Hepburn had waited for an interview...in Harris's offices above the Moresco Theatre." ; p. 141 "In 1933, several years after her stint as Harris's driver, ...Kate arrived, fresh from California, at Harris's offices above the Moresco Theatre." Hepburn was a struggling actress in the late 1920s, not the late 1930s.

At times, pages read as if they had been written by assistants who did not keep up with what had preceded their contribution. Information is needlessly repeated. And, the writing is inconsistent. veering from good to sophomoric to good to bad to good again.

Hepburn deserved better.

Admiralby researched and exquisitely written.......2005-04-03

This book gives up the charming, remarkable Katharine Hepburn as no other book has before. So far, it's the most fascinating celebrity biography I've ever read, although it seems to have outraged her most diehard fans. Too bad. It's a great read. Although Miss Hepburn was a rather bony woman, Darwin Porter gives her flesh and bones in this remarkable, riveting portrait. Shrewdly objective, yet sympathetic in tone, the book re-creates her life and times and does so exceedingly well. The book should be read for the new light it sheds on the character, career, and armours (both male and female) of this remarkable American woman, who was my all-time favorite movie star. I'm delighted to know that she had a private life, too, although one filled with her share of woe like all of us experience. A vivid and perceptive portrait of the greatest female film star of the 20th Century.

All the negative reviews removed...hmmm.......2005-01-18

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Don't be fooled. There is nothing well written or insightful about this awful book. You can't libel the dead, so Porter goes to town on just about everyone, with pages and pages of supposed "notes" that are nothing but a list of names with no attributable quotes.

There are also those who claim that the book's detractors (and trust me, they outnumbered these paid hacks by a large margin at one time) just can't believe that there were gay golden age Hollywood starts who slept around. As a gay man I find this the most insulting aspect of this whole enterprise. Darwin Porter seems almost pathological in his need to validate his own orientation by asserting that EVERYONE in old Hollywood was gay. It seems silly and more than a little pathetic that anyone would need to work this hard to quiet his own demons, but this book says a lot more about the author than it does about Katharine Hepburn.

On a final note, take a look at the other "reviews" by the people on this page. You'll find more than a few of them who only seem to review Darwin Porter books. Curious, very curious.

Still, Amazon has chosen to leave these while removing the honest reviews from real people. Even more curious.

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This study of the music of a group of important composers of the twentieth century includes Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. Arnold Whittall explores the cultural contexts and critical perspectives which shed light on certain works by these composers. In particular, he reveals the continuum between the progressive and the conservative underlying the great variety of styles and musical genres in twentieth-century composition.

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In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully between the cultural and the technical, the general and the particular, to explore the various contexts and critical perspectives which illuminate certain works by these composers. Considering the extent to which place and nationality contribute to the definition of musical character, he investigates the relevance of such images as mirroring and symmetry, the function of genre and the way types of identity may be suggested by such labels as classical, modernist, secular, sacred radical, traditional. These categories are considered as flexible and interactive and they generate a wide-ranging series of narratives delineating some of the most fundamental forces which affected composers and their works within the complex and challenging world of the twentieth century.

Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation.(Book Review): An article from: Notes

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Excellent book for all players.......2006-03-16

This book is excellent for players wanting to improve declarer play. Format is easy to follow, and summaries and quizzes at end of each chapter are helpful.

Excellent approach to fine declarer play; thanks to Seagram!.......2004-09-25

Here we have a recent (2003) entry in the growing and popular "25" series of fine bridge books. This time co-author David Bird joins the accomplished teacher Barbara Seagram to concentrate on declarer play. The 25 chapters are organized mostly by increasing difficulty, starting off with something as basic as Simple Finesses and progressing to more intermediate topics such as holdup plays and planning NT offenses, to subjects as sophisticated as dummy reversals and counting the opponent's shape/points.

The format of "25 Ways" follows the successful earlier entries in the series. Each topic is introduced, illustrative examples highlight the discussion, and each chapter features about three hands that test the student on his digestion of the preceding material. As usual, an explanatory answers page helps check one's rationale against the "proper" solution. The writing tone is conversational which helps make what is basically a textbook a little more fun to read. With material aimed at beginners through somewhat advanced intermediate players, there's probably something for most everyone in "25 Ways"; and it is a book we highly recommend during our "299-er" sessions at the bridge club!

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Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism?

In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and popular music that exacerbate every serious social problem we face, from teenage pregnancies to violence in the streets.

Michael Medved powerfully argues that the entertainment business follows its own dark obsessions, rather than giving the public what it wants: In fact, the audience for feature films and network television has demonstrated its profound disillusionment in recent years, with disastrous consequences for many entertainment companies. Meanwhile, overwhelming numbers of our fellow citizens complain about the wretched quality of our popular culture--describing the offerings of the mass media as the worst ever. Medved asserts that Hollywood ignores--and assaults--the values of ordinary American families, pursuing a self-destructive and alienated ideological agenda that is harmful to the nation at large and to the industry's own interests.

In hard-hitting chapters on "The Attack on Religion," "The Addiction to Violence," "Promoting Promiscuity," "The Infatuation with Foul Language," "Kids Know Best," "Motivations for Madness," and other subjects, Medved outlines the underlying themes that turn up again and again in our popular culture. He also offers conclusive evidence of the frightening real-world impact of these messages on our society and our children.

Finally, Medved shows where and how Hollywood took a disastrous wrong turn toward its current crisis, and he outlines promising efforts both in and outside the industry to restore a measure of sanity and restraint to our media of mass entertainment.

Sure to elicit strong response, whether it takes the form of cheers of support or howls of enraged dissent, Hollywood vs. America confronts head-on one of the most significant issues of our times.

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Good book but he ignores the obvious - the Jewish factor.......2007-08-28

I guess since Medved is a Jew himself, he doesn't touch the fact that Jews are the most influential group in Hollywood and they essentially set the "moral" agenda of various Hollywood film/TV products. Sure there are plenty of powerful gentiles in Hollywood, but it's the Jews who are pushing the envelope and making the top level decisions about how to steer U.S. and Western culture.
As a Jew myself who has lived both in Los Angeles and New York, my belief is that Jews in this country are hell bent on turning America into a secular progressive/Socialist nation. This is why Hollywood constantly attacks the family and church. It's also why Hollywood glorifies all the bad things of society: drugs, gangs, crime, etc. Their basic strategy is to, over many decades, incrementally tear down U.S. society (ie. wreck it) by promoting destructive things such as gangs, crime, perversion, drugs, and promiscuous sex while at the same time ridiculing all the positive things such as family and church. Simultaneously, Hollywood strongly promotes Socialist or "collective" ideals and often glorifies historical Communist/Marxist/Socialist figures... in this way, they are conditioning the youth of America to be open to such ideologies (and, they hope, embrace such ideologies).
There is one religion that Hollywood has pandered to -- Islam. You see, Islam and the West do not mix. Hence, Hollywood views Islam as just another destructive force on America and the West, in the same way that gangs and perverse sexuality are destructive forces. Anything destructive to America is a favorite of Hollywood.

Oh Now I have heard everything............2007-06-16

If Michael Medved (and other conservatives) had their way. We would be watching the 700 Club on all Tv stations. The Sound of Music would be made into all these new versions, and almost all so-called "Family Films" would be rated by the smallest number of people who said that they have our best intentions at heart.

Where in the world do these people get these ideas? I have no idea. But I will tell you this. There is much to complain about Hollywood, but at the end of the day, I prefer the world of the movie studios and film making, rather then the world of dumb politics that this book is full of. Then again, this is what Washington DC is also.

still the best book on what the media is doing to the American mind.......2007-04-15

"Although the quality of craftsmanship in today's motion pictures is hugely variable, their underlying attitudes are not." (p. xx). The year this book was published, movie attendance had plunged to "its lowest level ever in terms of percentage of our population." (p. xviii). Similar results applied for movie rentals.

Thus Medved sets the stage for his detailed presentation of the relentlessly anti-American attitudes of movies and TV, and the fact that these products are not selling, and the fact that the producers of them don't care! Foreign sales of American movies are increasing, where these movies feed the anti-American sentiment being fostered by so many other elements around the world. Hollywood now gets over half its income from foreign sales.

A friend warned Medved that if he published this book, "you're going to become the most hated man in Hollywood." (p. 17). Luckily for us, Medved refused to be intimidated.

Movies have not gotten any better in the years since this book was published. Medved claims that the movies are out of touch with Americans, but there are a great many Americans whom the movies are not out of touch with: the academics, the news industry people, the schoolteachers, the Islamists, the Reconquistadores, and the like. The movies are part of the attempt to "transform" America into something very different. If you want to know what this transformation is and how it works, read While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America From Within. It will keep you awake at night, but you need to know it.

It's not science, but it's good criticism!.......2007-03-03

Having done my own research on film content, which just happened to include a survey of 1991 releases (which constitute many of the examples used in this book), it was perhaps inevitable that I would eventually read this book.
As a social scientist, I noted numerous parts of the book that contained inaccuracies, exaggerations, and reasoning that was far from air-tight. However, at the same time, I was impressed that, although these elements could (and should) be tightened and corrected, I find most of Medved's arguments to be laudable and generally defensible. Certainly there are many persons who should read this book and evaluate their media consumption habits!
Some of the biggest shortcomings of the book include:
1. Frequent presumptions that general box-office patterns are to be attributed primarily to specific elements of film content (even though other parts of the book are more careful and sophisticated about such things), [**NOTE** new passage added a month after original review:] Since I originally posted my 4 star rating, I have discovered evidence that flatly contradicts one of Medved's claims!!! The nature of this error is so serious that it would cause me to lower my rating from 4 stars down to 3 stars, but Amazon provides no option to allow me to do that. The flaw is Medved's claim that box office dropped dramatically between 1965 and 1966, due to the new permissiveness that was allowed in film with the Valenti-revisions of the the production code and the addition of the SMA ("suggested for mature audience") label. Having looked at the box office figures, I now see no basis whatsoever for Medved's claim! There was a decline, yes, just as there had been and would continue to be for many years before and afterward. There is no way to attribute one year out of that to a shift in the production code, as Medved does. Therefore, this must be considered another case where his claims are exaggerated and overstated, despite my aesthetic and moral basis for agreeing with many of his arguments, and my general support for the kind of criticism that Medved attempts (and the industry's need to consider it). [end of added passage]
2. Poor proofreading, some errors, and a number of passages that are exaggerated. (The proofreading suggests that the book used an early word processor to produce, the errors that I caught are generally minor and don't tend to negate the points he's trying to make, the exaggerations tend to occur when Medved is clearly exhibiting an emotional involvement in the topic.)
These are perhaps regrettable weaknesses, but can be overlooked.
3. Some errors of reasoning can be found in various parts of the book, but again, while these are regrettable in that they will cause some readers to be unconvinced, Medved's failure to make all his arguments logically air-tight doesn't mean that most of the core ideas he relates are unsound. On the contrary, having come to his book years after doing my own research and arrived at *some* very similar conclusions, I know where he's coming from and the kinds of patterns and relationships he's trying to describe, in language that is accessible and convincing to general readers.

Now, for some of the positive features of the book:
1. Medved succeeds in refuting the claim that Hollywood product is simply "giving the public what it wants and demands."
2. Medved succeeds in pointing to some of the patterns in which questionable content has come to pervade most mass media products, even when unnecessary for the effectiveness of the work and when it offends some or most of its potential audience.
3. Medved demonstrates an understanding of some of the debates in aesthetics and criticism, and does a very good job questioning the nature of contemporary criticism, and pointing to some ways in which it (and film critics) falls short and risks becoming totally irrelevant.
4. Medved's exploration of the motivations underlying contemporary standards for film production, film criticisms, and industry awards is probably one of the better ones that has appeared in a widely-available forum in recent years.
5. Medved's introduction and conclusion sections should probably be required reading for anyone who wishes to judge the nature of this book. He is careful to draw a distinction between judgements about artistic merits and a moral evaluation of film content. He also tends to avoid simplistic fallacies that so often pervade this sort of writing, and he also concisely addresses the topic of film censorship that is frequently brought in to cloud the issue of film content. His discussion at no time can be simplified to the advocacy of censorship (as all industry defenders and apologists keep trying to do) and he insightfully cuts through many of the fallacies used by industry apologists in their public statements on these issues.
6. Medved's understanding of the harmful effects of violent (and immoral) media is adequate, and I was impressed that he actually hired a consultant to interpret data at at least one point during the writing of the book, rather than claim expertise of his own in data analysis. I believe that Medved did as capable a job as he could, but he is no social scientist. The results, however, hold up surprisingly well to scrutiny, despite various fallacies that creep into some of his more elaborate efforts to explore and evaluate patterns and trends.
7. Medved's suggestions for filmmakers are good ones! He describes well such issues as the different perceptions of critics when compared to general audiences, includes useful information to suggest differences between the artistic/industry communities and the broader public at large, examines various motivations (historical, political, artistic/personal etc.) that shape film products in ways that are often unappreciated by industry outsiders.

All in all, this book was surprisingly good. It isn't flawless, and there are times when Medved's emotions are not held completely in check, but he usually manages to avoid the sorts of errors that are otherwise pervasive about this sort of subject, and even when he makes mistakes in reasoning and in reporting the data/observations about the media, these mistakes fortunately tend not to contradict the merit of most of his arguments. While most popular authors on this subject may may one or more bold claims and then run with them, Medved is fortunately much more careful. Therefore, when he does stumble, not much of the load he was carrying gets spilled. Unfortunately, the current edition has a Rush Limbaugh blurb on its front cover. This should be removed, even though Medved is apparently not a conservative commentator, because Medved is also correct when he states in this book that the issue of media content is not simply a conservative/liberal political issue. It instead concerns anyone who has a sense of ethics that shouldn't be needlessly contradicted by questionable filmmaking choices and the sort poor aesthetic standards that are common today.

liberals vs. real america.......2005-05-06

Michael Medved is a great man. He almost gets it right in this
book, but he doesn't go quite far enough. He is far too easy
on the liberals who took over the entertainment industry and
have used it ever since as a weapon against normal america.

There is no question that the american entertainment industry
(film and television) is out to destroy, religion, the family,
patrotism, trust in our leaders and support for our troops.
While at the same time, the industry promotes socialism, crime,
secular humanism, sexual deveintism and drug use.

There is also no question about the number of people that the
film industry has destroyed. Medved is very good at chronicaling
the destroyed lives they have caused. And how they turned the
country against our troops during the vietnam war. He is also
good at showing cause and effect. Liberals teach children to
have sex which causes them to get pregenant which the liberals
then solve by getting them to murder babies. Those involved are
so tramatized by the experience that they fall into the trap
of illegal drugs prepared for them by the liberals. Its all
part of one larger effort to destroy america.

Medved misunderstand how this situation came to be. He misses
how criminal gangs (so-called labour unions) run by communists
used violence to intimidate the hollywood studios into hiring
degenerate criminals and firing anyone with morality who stood
in their way. Louis Mayer made good family films at MGM that
were very popular. Yet he was fired at the peak of his
popularity and MGM started to turn out endless hate america
movies by communists like Stanley Kramer. Popular stars were
let go and replaced with moral degenerates and drug addicts.
Great moral epics like the Sands of Iwo Jima and Hondo were
replaced by films about drug dealers or bikers or human rats
infesting our cities.

This was not done for profit. The movies long ago lost their
mass audience and it didn't bother these people a bit. They
need only to reach people one or twice over a few years to
spread the disease of communist ideas.

Michael Medved also doesn't go far enough in seeking a cure
to the problem. I think the start is for communities to stop
putting up with immorality. We need laws and judges that will
shut those making obsene works down. Where we should start is
by reforming the academy awards. Membership in the acadamy
should require good moral character and love of America and
freedom. The Academy also needs to start to look like America.
It wasn't America that gave the top award last year to a film
about sending poor women out to fight for the amusement of
others and then murdering her because she was sick. The people
who cast those votes need to be sent to france or somewhere else
outside america.

Medved has always been on the side of right. No better example
can be seen than in how he treated "the last temptation" and
"the passion". In the case of "the last temptation", all
hollywood was cheering for anti-christian hate film that nobody
wanted to see anyway. Then in the case of "the passion" all
the same hollywood liberals were angry and disguested that
such a film could be made or released. Medved was on the
side of right in both cases against the liberals.

The side of good is winning back America and the day will come
when the criminals are brought to justice. A day when we will
have entertainment for America again rather than filth and
disease for a handful of liberals. First it was the presidency
and the congress, next it will be the courts, after that comes
education and entertainment. America will be redeemed and
its institutions will begin to serve it again rather than a
bunch of weak liberal intellectuals.

Talk On Television: Audience Participation and Public Debate (Communication and Society)

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Talk on Television examines the value and significance of televised public debate, at a time when everyday conversation is increasingly dependent on television. At the same time, more people are are making appearances on these shows to discuss their personal lives and social issues.

Analyzing a wide range of programs including Donohue and Oprah Winfrey, the authors draw on interviews with both studio participants and home viewers. Their work, the first audience study of this type of programming, addresses not only a growing genre of media previously ignored, but also points towards contemporary debates in social theory. Livingstone and Lunt ask how the media manages these discussion programs, and whether they are truly providing new "spaces" for the participants. They learn how audiences interpret seeing themselves on the shows, analyze the contribution made by "experts", and unravel the conventions--debate, romance and therapy--that make up the genres. Through this, they consider television's function as a medium of education and information, finally discussing the dangers and opportunities the genre holds for both audience participation and public debate in the future.

Talk on Television asks questions and presents evidence regarding the active audience, public participation, the significance of public discourse, and the role of the mass-media in the public sphere.

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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the free press-fair trial debate over news cameras in the courtroom--one that discusses the issue from a historical, legal, and social scientific perspective. It incorporates the key aspects of the debate in one volume, examining witness privacy and protection, defendant reputation, the purported "educational" benefits of televising trials, the coverage of trials from an entertainment or voyeurisitic perspective, and whether any proposed benefits of televising trials are negated by potential negative costs to the participants involved or the audience in general.

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