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Summary: A quick and interesting read
Review: I read this book in two nights and enjoyed every minute of it, especially since it gives a lot of personal insight into Miss Hepburn's life. It tends to jump around a bit, but that is understandable given that it is based on the author's many visits with Miss Hepburn. My only complaint is that it needs better editing -- there were several grammar and spelling errors.
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Summary: 10 STARS FOR THIS BOOK - 5 isn't enough
Review: This book is absolutely incredible. I could not put it down. Mr. Berg writes so beautifully that I felt I could be sitting and listening to his stories in person. Yes, I am a Kate-aholic, but the human voice behind the stories is amazing. I laughed out loud and I cried alittle too. This is not a biography - it's lovely small stories of Mr. Berg's friendship with Miss Hepburn during the last 20 yrs of her life - and what a friendship it was. I sincerely hope that Mr. Berg will some day research & publish her biography. Do Not miss this book.
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Summary: A pleasant summer read
Review: Scott Berg has written a zephyr-filled remembrance of one of America's cherished leading ladies. His twenty-year association with Katharine Hepburn was clearly a joy to both author and subject and his anecdotes are wonderful. Much has been said about Berg's self-infusion in this book but I found it to be not at all distracting. He passes on the warmth and quirkiness of Miss Hepburn with a good deal of affection.After finishing "Kate Remembered" I felt a desire to rent out some of her films. This is a nice way to continue the tribute to her. Scott Berg has helped preserve her memory and added to our understanding of this wonderful woman. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Worth Reading
Review: Regargardless of what Liz Smith (NY Post) says about this book, I found it to be an extremely interesting account of Miss Hepburn's last years. Mr. Berg wrote in a way that gave insight, without making the reader feel intrusive. The recollections of her earlier years ring true, with no sense of sensationalism. Usually, I am not a fan of this type of book but, because of my interest in Miss Hepburn, I decided to take a chance...I am so glad I did!
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Summary: Memoir of a friendship
Review: I think the biggest problem with this book, and what is confusing so many readers and reviewers, is the title. A. Scott Berg is an accomplished biographer, whose formal biographies of Lindbergh, Goldwyn and Maxwell Perkins have won critical acclaim and major awards. This book is not a biography of Katharine Hepburn, though it contains a lot of biographical information about her. Rather, it is a memoir of Scott Berg's long friendship with a remarkable person, written in an informal and welcoming style. If we were each to call to mind memories of a particular and cherished friend, I think we'd find that those memories are interspersed with memories of others who played a role at that time in our lives, with what we were doing and feeling and where we were at the time we remember. So it is here. For example, some readers and reviewers have objected to the frequent appearances of, and references to, Irene Mayer Selznick in this book, and questioned their relevance to the story. Mrs. Selznick was a great friend of the author, intimately involved with the project he was working on during the first ten years of his friendship with Hepburn, the biography of Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn. Mrs. Selznick was the daughter of another Hollywood producer, Louis B. Mayer, and had been married to another legendary producer, David O. Selznick. Irene Selznick had, in fact, also been an intimate friend of Miss Hepburn's, for over sixty years. So of course, in writing this memoir, she would appear, and be very much a part of the story. What I missed most in this otherwise entertaining and moving memoir was more about the author himself, who I'm certain is an intelligent and accomplished person in his own right. I wanted to know more about him. He appears as being almost invisible here, a congenial but passive observer of all that he experiences. That is of course the role of a biographer, to be invisible...but this is not a biography. The book is well written, with occasional lapses in grammar and punctuation, a byproduct of the sad state of proofreading in today's publishing industry. A more careful parusal of the book before publication would have served the author and subject better.
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Summary: A pleasure
Review: The difference between this book and standard biographies is that Mr. Berg became of friend of Katharine Hepburn, and relates anecdotes gleaned from being part of her life. Hepburn was so sure of herself and opinionated, so enthusiastic and competent, and these qualities come out in his stories. He ate dinner with her, stayed at her homes in New York and Connecticut (where she always helped him turn down the bed!), visited relatives and, as she became more frail with age, assisted her through her last movie appearance.
Her love for Spencer Tracy is bedrock in her life, not dwelled upon, merely included as part of her story. Her respect for her other suitors, and her admission of her own selfishness with some of them, are candid and refreshing.
Berg kept up with her until the end, and Hepburn's death after a physical decline, was dignified and brought me to tears. This book was a total pleasure.
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Summary: A quick read
Review: I was disappointed with this book. While it was a quick read, it seemed to deal more with A. Scott Berg then with Katherine Hepburn. And while I could tell Berg was totally enamored with Ms. Hepburn, I craved more personal information in terms of a biography.
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Summary: One Star for Kate
Review: I had a running fascination with Katharine Hepburn from the time I was in boarding school, and wanted to be just like her. Scott Berg's appalling book reminds me of the girls in school whose pretense was soon uncovered. Using Hepburn as a vehicle for self promotion, Berg retells all the Hepburn stories that one has heard her tell in TV interviews or read previously. Preparing a manuscript and waiting for the subject's death to race it into print is clearly the work of a pretentious self-promoter. Read Hepburn herself. She is still in print. Or better still, watch her movies.
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Summary: Superb
Review: Mr. Berg has written a wonderfully interesting book. But much more, he has honored a friend and that comes thru in each page. Bravo!
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Summary: Kate Remembered
Review: I found this book to be exceptional. I finished it within 2 days. Mr. Berg's treatment of Katharine Hepburn appears to be unbiased. It simply is a memoire of the time spent with her. There are many anecdotes regarding Michael Jackson, Warren Beatty, and many others. I found myself bursting into laughter over many of Ms. Hepburn's sayings. I also found myself crying in the end. What a remarkable WOMAN and what a remarkable AUTHOR to share a piece of Hollywood legend with us. If you have any interest in Katharine Hepburn, I would run, not walk to the bookstore and GET THIS BOOK!!! It is inspiring, comical, and sad (only because this woman's life came to an end). We can all learn from her and from the author who chose to treat such an icon in such a sensitive, honest way.
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