Review: Who can resist Betty Dravis?!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2011
Seems I've been reading works by Betty Dravis for years now  starting with her novels and continuing through her Dream Reachers interviews with famous people.  This little Kindle book  becomes a celebration of sorts, re-visiting some excellent interviews with the likes of Jane Russell, Ann Southern, Ted Kennedy and of course Clint Eastwood - and as always it is fun to hear the remarks she stimulates these stars to make.  But for this follower of Betty Dravis it is the preparatory notes before the interviews that recreates such a remarkable atmosphere for the time when the interview was created.  There is time to get to know the foibles of the psyched up interviewer encountering hilarious problems before beginning a formal interview, and there is ample time during the interview to realize how warmly her subjects adjust to the situation that for most interviewees would be a trauma or an embarrassment.That is where Dravis shines most brightly - giving us, her readers, a lot to think about, laugh about, and relate to - all in a tender and always-a-smile-on-the-face sense of well being.  If you haven't tasted the interviewing techniques and the infectious writing style of Betty Dravis, then this little Kindle book is a terrific place to start.  Makes you wonder who her next 'person of interest' might be!  Grady Harp, November 11