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Article: Kate selectively remembered: out writer A. Scott Berg reverts to "don't ask, don't tell" in his Hepburn biography.
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2003
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Kate Remembered * A. Scott Berg * Putnam * $25.95
"I kept wondering why this virtual stranger, whose reclusiveness among movie stars was second only to Garbo's, had made herself so available to me," A. Scott Berg rapturously muses early on in Kate Remembered. And as this memoir of his 20-year friendship with the acting icon gushes on, with Berg claiming that she "established the greatest acting career of the 20th century, perhaps ever," its mixture of cautious disclosure and obsequious deference will strike a familiar chord with any gay man who has ever been besotted by a movie goddess.
But A. Scott Berg isn't just any gay man. He's a Pulitzer ...
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Article: Loving memoir of a special friend; Kate Remembered by A ...
The Birmingham Post (England);
July 26, 2003 ;
611 words
... ... Throughout her life, Katharine Hepburn kept quiet about a lot of things ... prize winning biographer A Scott Berg, who became her confidante ... more intimate account of what Hepburn was truly like, down to small ... candid. For the first time, Hepburn reveals that Tracy, the love ...
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