I haven't read this, thanks for the tip Ralph.Ophelia, have you ever read "Memo," by David O. Selznick? Mr. Selznick, producer of Gone With the Wind, Rebecca and many other great films, was a prodigious writer of memos/letters, and that's what this book is - simply a collection of his workaday memos during his time in the film industry. Gone With the Wind, from buying the book, casting, writing and re-writing, is a huge chapter in the book. It's probably out of print now, but if you ever get a chance to read it, please do. It's one of my facorite books of all-time - full lof the gossip and minutia that I thrive on.
Actually, I'll nominate you "most daring BT poster of the year".
I think before, no other BT poster, apart from me, had admitted to reading anything about stars. And only one other reader, Constance, admitted to reading -- and loving-- Harry Potter!
I've read parts from Things Fall Away Mia Farrow's autobiography.
Some of it fell under some of my interests: the medical world as seen through the eyes of the patient, and powerful men in our society, the part about Woody Allen.
I've never been a great fan of Woody's, I like some of his films-- preferably when he doesn't act in them, my favourite being "The Purple Rose of Cairo".
The way he constantly refers to rich people and their analysts in his films, and give the impression the whole thing is a circus, made me wonder.
If all she writes about him is true it's more than I wanted to know about anybody, but one thing caught my attention. At one time Woody Allen was seeing two psychiatrists, both of them every day, including Sundays!
One may think it's laughable, but the sort of ego and celf-centredness this reveals is astounding.
Also, as usual, the sky's the limit for the rich and famous.
In France, waiting lists to see a psychiatrist can be several months, and then they'll see the patient half an hour a week.
One woman I know tells me her son, in his twenties, is depressed and the psychiatrist has been seeing him once a month!
Anyway, I was hoping Mia Farrow would write about her films as well, but so far -- though i'm not reading in chronological order!--this doesn't seem to be coming.