Tynan's profiles are models of the genre, an inspiration for today's journalists and critics. The 50 profiles in this collection, originally published between 1943 and 1979, provide a veritable Who's Who of arts and letters, including Katharine Hepburn, C.S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Miles Davis, W.C. Fields, Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Tom Stoppard, and Greta Garbo.
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Tynan's profiles are models of the genre, an inspiration for today's journalists and critics. The 50 profiles in this collection, originally published between 1943 and 1979, provide a veritable Who's Who of arts and letters, including Katharine Hepburn, C.S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Miles Davis, W.C. Fields, Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Tom Stoppard, and Greta Garbo.
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Don't remember where I heard about this book, but am glad I ordered it! What a wonderful writer. A lot of the people profiled are from before my time, but the profiles are witty, insightful, humorous, stylish.......I can't say enough about Kenneth Tynan. An example might serve. The opening line from his article on Greta Garbo. "What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober." Not the kind of book to rip through on a rainy weekend. Savour it bit by bit. A definite winner.
