Costly performances
Subtitle: Tennessee Williams : the last stage
By: Bruce Smith.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Paragon House
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.; Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Description: Sympathetic, admiring, gifted with seemingly total recall and afflicted with grammatical lapses, a Chicago publicist describes his close three-year friendship with the aging, alcoholic, drug-addicted Tennessee Williams. In Key West, Chicago and New York, assisting the playwright as he worked on the production of his last two plays, Clothes for a Summer Hotel and A House Not Meant to Stand, Smith kept a journal in which he recorded episodes of the dramatist's paranoia, his feelings about Marlon Brando, Truman Capote, Paul Newman, Geraldine Page...