HARD TO GET Fast Talk and Rude Questions Along the Interview Trail

Collins, Nancy

ISBN 10: 0394576616 / ISBN 13: 9780394576619

Published by Random House, New York, 1990

About this Item

Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Presents a collection of conversations with such superstars as Jack Nicholson, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, and Joan Rivers, and reveals the secrets of a good interview.; 357 pages.

Seller Inventory # 45767

Bibliographic Details

• Title: HARD TO GET Fast Talk and Rude Questions Along the Interview Trail
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0394576616
• ISBN 13: 9780394576619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Presents a collection of conversations with such superstars as Jack Nicholson, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, and Joan Rivers, and reveals the secrets of a good interview

Reviews

This collection of interviews that have appeared in Esquire , Playboy and Rolling Stone , etc. shows Collins to be a tenacious, stop-at-nothing interviewer. The celebrities met here are a cross-section of hot properties of the early '80s: Roone Arledge, Robin Williams and Mikhail Baryshnikov among them. Although the lengthy introduction gets the book off to a slow start, the pieces possess an immediacy that holds up although they were written 10 years ago. One tale of journalistic skulduggerystet one l, per Web. sparkles with intrigue--Collins's breaching of the extensive pre-publication security surrounding H. R. Haldeman's The Ends of Power to get an early copy of the book for the Washington Post . Other bright spots include accounts of Baryshnikov's defection from the Soviet Union, Sylvester Stallone's fastidiousness and Dudley Moore's preoccupation with sex.
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