Knowing Hepburn and Other Curious Experiences
Dramatist Prideaux here recounts his adventures in television with such notables as Elizabeth Taylor, Ryan O'Neal, and Burt Reynolds, but it is his relationship with the great Kate Hepburn that is pivotal to the work. Covered in-depth are three made-for-TV projects he created especially for Hepburn during the late 1980s and early 1990s. More than an adoring fan, Prideaux has known Hepburn professionally and personally-he has borne the brunt of her bullying and bombast as well as benefited from her unassailable friendship. Hepburn, at times the insufferable egotist, is nonetheless affectionately regarded and revered. More grounded than most second-hand accounts of movie stars, Prideaux's work reveals the dynamics of production and the politics of personality. He conveys how in later years Hepburn has courted, if not the limelight, then the cathode ray of television with a fierce determination not to wallow in an enshrined celluloid self. Recommended for public libraries.Jayne Kate Plymale-Jackson, Univ. of Georgia Libs., AthensCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.