Valentines and Vitriol

Rex Reed

ISBN 10: 0440093368 / ISBN 13: 9780440093367

Published by Delacorte Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1977

About this Item

When celebrities talk to Rex Reed, they find themselves revealing more about their lives, their friends and enemies-and, ultimately, the way we live now - than when they talk to any other journalist. For example: Bette Davis: "Karen Black changes her makeup in the middle of a scene so nothing matches on the screen, she sleeps all day, never goes to rushes to see what she looks like, and you can*t hear one bloody thing she says on the set. When I made movies, you could hear me in a tunnel!" David Bowie; "I like men. I like black girls, I can be a hundred different people in a hundred different scenes." Valerie Perrine: "I'd much rather be getting laid . . . I wanna play a whore again. It's so much more fun to be tacky!" Lillian Hellman on Tallulah Bankhead: "That hatred was mutual." Sylvia Syms; "Mae West took me on the road for a year and was wonderful until I got my first rave review. Then she turned into a monster. I weighed over two hundred pounds, and Mae added forty more pounds of padding to my costume to humiliate me. Marvin Hamlisch: "I had to beg Barbra Streisand to sing 'The Way We Were.' She never wanted to do it. She said it was too simple. Dody Goodman: "At first, Jack Paar couldn't do enough for me. Then I started getting too popular . . . so he cut me down to two or three nights a week. Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Sophia Loren, Jeff Bridges, Pearl Bailey, Walter Matthau, Melina Mercouri, Jacqueline Susann, Carol Channing, and the Andrews Sisters are among the other stars who send valentines and vitriol flying every which way in this dazzling new book by the bestselling author of People Are Crazy Here and Do You Sleep in the Nude? All orders shipped protected in a box. Some staining to inside of dust cover and inside of front and back covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Valentines and Vitriol
• Publisher: Delacorte Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440093368
• ISBN 13: 9780440093367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Photographs
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 22 ounces
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Stories about celebrities by Rex Reed