I ask her if she has helped any of Parsons' biographers. I still have opinions forming on autobiography and biography. I can see the ghost of Cary Grant shaking his head at me over her shoulder. Humphrey Bogart appears along with Sydney Greenstreet wearing a fez. They both shake their heads.
Dames like to light their own Indian cigarettes.
But I don't think so. In fact they're very, very protective of me. They also are really sensitive about us being in a social situation, when everybody zones in on me and kind of dismisses them. And then they find out that these girls are my daughters, and all of a sudden they get attention. My kids just dismiss those people.