Where’s the link?
I e’d the Mods and asked if this was OK, and told them I would only link to my publisher, not to Amazon. By the way, I asked the same question when Opal was taken to task!
Eve, just a quick question - and a really stupid oone -
How did you end up with the University Press of Kentucky as your publisher? Are they an arm of a bigger house? Loyalty from your younger days?
Really just curious - nothing needs to be read into the question.
Nicole Kidman
c/o Creative Artists
9830 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Tel (310) 288 4545
I think her agent might have changed, so I would call Creative Artists and get his/her name before you send a copy of the book.
Congrats!
In her OP, you dope. You clicked it, remember? 
DMark—Thanks, I’ll be on the horn with her people post-haste.
Lawoot—I noticed that UKY had a really good line of show-business biographies; the kind of books the majors just don’t publish. So I submitted to them, and have been with them ever since! My old Kentucky press, far away . . .
I read your review, it’s great to know it was a doper “grappling nobly with this captivating sprite”
Well, count me in to fork out for a copy - Genevieve is my mother’s all-time favourite movie so you’ve just provided me with a simple and easy solution for her birthday gift, something I usually sweat over for months. Will you hate me too much if I only buy the one? I want to read it too but am poor… from the way Dirk Bogarde describes her in his autobiographies, the full story must be fascinating, he makes her sound incredible.
Fantastic review, I am so pleased for you!
Hell, Potter, I can’t afford to buy my books, either—I’m a penniless writer!
DMark, I called and got Nicole’s agent’s name, and am sending him a letter and the book this week. If this gets made into a film, you can visit me on the set and I will provide you with luscious extra-boys or -girls, whichever you prefer!
—Sprite-Grapplin’ Eve
Wasn’t she friends with Audrey Hepburn? (You should do a bio of Audrey, Eve, that would kick serious ass!)
Cool!!!
No thanks. Been there, done them.
Just put me down for tickets for the grand premiere (which I hope is in London and you will also spring for airfare?)
Hey, don’t blame us! We get them that way. And whenever anybody asks (if they bother) we tell them to take the plastic off wrapped books, no problem.
So as a Barnes & Noble employee, and therefore Official Barnes & Noble/Straight Dope Liaison (I’ve always wanted to be a Liaison), I give everyone here permission to unwrap Eve…um, Eve’s book.
Guin, she was indeed friends with Audrey Hepburn—they dated the Hanson brothers at the same time (no, not the '80s rock group). I interviewed the current Lord Hanson, Audrey’s one-time fiancé and the brother of Kay’s boyfriend. Nice chap. Kay was not in High Button Shoes; I spoke with a company member who says, “all the Audrey Hepburn books say Kay was in that show, and she wasn’t—they just took dance classes together.”
As far as writing a book on Audrey; there are already, what, about 500 of those? By far better writers than I. I like taking someone who’s never had a book done on them and shaking the dust off 'em. I mean, if I don’t write about people like Anna Held and Theda Bara, who else would be nuts enough to?
Well! Another book to put on my Amazon Wish list. If only someone would actually BUY ANYTHING OFF OF IT FOR ME!
grumble
But you know, I think I’ll buy this one myself.
By the way, Cranky, I am having dinner tonight with one of the authors of this book, and am bringing along that wonderful 1930 photo book you sent me—it has a number of Ruth Harriet Louise shots he’s dying to see.
Congrats Eve. Luck, joy and success.
So, Eve - what era in iflm is the most recent that you are interested in? Early talkies? 1930’s? WW2? (just wondeing, as I have a friend who is the daughter of a couple of Hollywood-types, that were big in the 40’s-50’s)
Lawoot—I’d say the 1950s are the most recent I’d be interested in writing about. I like researching “the time and the place” as well as “the girl.” Next best thing to having a time machine, such fun! So far I’ve immersed myself in H’wood of the 1930s and 1910s; New York and Paris of 100 years ago, and now Britain in the 1940s and '50s. I’d really like to go back to the mid- to late-19th century, but am having a hard time finding a subject. I’m torn between two subjects for my next book: one in H’wood of the 1920s, the other in New York of the pre-WWI era.
Anyway, thanks again, all, for the kind words and wishes. I’m certainly not asking you to buy my book—$25 is a lot of moola, and I rarely can afford to buy books, myself. But if you can get it out of the library, I’d love some feedback . . . Unless the feedback is “it sucks!” of course . . .
P.S. Who were your friend’s parents? If they’re still alive, I’m always available for ghosting memoirs . . .
How 'bout ZaSu Pitts? 
My friend is the daughter of Anne Baxter and John Hodiak