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Article: Woman of the years; The real Katharine Hepburn comes through in posthumous bio/memoir.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- July 15, 2003
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Byline: STEPHANIE SCHOROW
In our celebrity-obsessed society, any time one of us mere mortals has a chance encounter with a star, we pepper the lucky one with the key question: "What were they like?"
Readers of "Kate Remembered," by A. Scott Berg will learn about Katharine Hepburn's meteoric rise, her slumps, her many affairs, her offbeat family and what she thinks of everyone from Bob Hope to Meryl Streep.
Mostly, they will get a chance to experience what the star was like, with an intimacy far greater than any dirt-digging tell-all.
"What I tried to do," said Berg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, "was write as if there were a ...