Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them - Rilegato

Langella, Frank

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ISBN 10: 0062094475 ISBN 13: 9780062094476

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2012

Riassunto

Interspersed with his own experiences, the Oscar-nominated actor, offers a collection of unforgettable encounters he had with many of the 20th century's most intriguing personalities, including John F. Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Splendid. . . . As much a memoir as a primer on the vicissitudes of an actor’s life, the book is a collage based on real-life situations that offer touching insights into stars like Rita Hayworth, and into the practical magic that informs Langella’s signature sensibility.” (The New Yorker)

“Rarely have I read a book about celebrities that is as insightful, candid, revealing, and as well-written as this one. Frank Langella’s memoir is not the usual author’s ego trip, but rather his remembrances of the many accomplished men and women that he has come to know.” (Gay Talese, author of A Writer's Life)

“A delightfully unabashed page-turner about people we wish we had known in the throes of work, love, and growing old.” (A.R. Gurney, award-winning playwright)

“Engaging. . . .Not just Langella’s “famous people I have known,” but a heartfelt love letter to the theater and to the days when stars were stars, not merely celebrities.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Dropped Names is a sizzling platter of stellar vignettes―pungent, for sure, but poignant too. . . . Mr. Langella is surgically precise, and eloquent. . . . The human condition in most of its vagaries is beautifully rendered between these pages.” (Liz Smith)

“ If Frank Langella’s memoir simply did what its title promises, it would be deep-dish gossip. But his memories of the stars he’s encountered during a lengthy career on Broadway and in film shed perceptive light on the costs of pursuing and maintaining fame.” (Detroit Free Press)

“Langella’s uncommonly eloquent book is enjoyable for the panoply of great names who turn up. . . . A natural raconteur, he seems to fit precisely Henry James’s famous description of the novelist as one ‘on whom nothing is lost.’” (New York Times)

“Frank Langella’s DROPPED NAMES is a different kind of memoir. . . . Not many of his peers could write such an eloquently dishy book.” (Los Angeles Times)

“The 65 chapters in this satisfyingly scandalous memoir paint Broadway and Hollywood as teeming with vulgar, neurotic and irresistible company, and Langella as relentlessly affable in the face of nonstop groping by celebrities in far-flung locations.” (Paperback Row, New York Times)

L'autore:

Frank Langella has been a star of stage and screen for over four decades. In 2009, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Richard Nixon in Ron Howard's big-screen adaptation of Frost/Nixon, a role that had previously earned him his third Tony for its stage performance. Langella scored an artistic and critical success in 2005 playing William Paley in George Clooney's historical docudrama, Good Night and Good Luck. Throughout the 1990s, Langella acted in a number of box-office and critical successes, including Ivan Reitman's Dave, Adrian Lyne's Lolita, and Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate. Most recently he has been seen in Oliver Stone's Wall Street II, All Good Things, and Unknown.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062094475
• ISBN 13: 9780062094476
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 354