Conversations In The Raw edition by Rex Reed Arts Photography eBooks
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For over two decades, the art of the interview was very nearly the sole province of Rex Reed, the Master of the Celebrity Profile. In Conversations in the Raw, the second of his four best-selling celebrity profile collections, he turns his focus on cult legends such as Bette Davis and Jean Seberg , international superstars such as Simone Signoret, screen idols such as Ingrid Bergman and Paul Newman. and, as always, Reed's unerring choices of newcomers who just might make it big such as Jon Voight just finishing his work on Midnight Cowboy. Writer Tom Wolfe has said about Reed “Rex Reed…raised the celebrity interview to a new level through his frankness and his eye for social detail. He has also been a master at capturing a story line in the interview situation itself.”
Along with Wolfe, Truman Capote, Kenneth Tynan, and Harry Crews, Rex Reed achieved a literary reputation for a genre, the celebrity profile, once relegated to gossip journalists who as often as not wrote studio-approved fantasies of the lives of the stars.
Devault-Graves Digital Editions has reissued Rex Reed’s quartet of best-selling profile anthologies Do You Sleep In the Nude?, Conversations in the Raw, Valentines & Vitriol, and People Are Crazy Here. Virtually anyone who was anyone during the 1960s, ’70s, and early ’80s in the movie and theater world are captured for the ages in these books. When asked why he no longer writes celebrity profiles, Mr. Reed answered simply “The movie stars of today are no longer interesting.”
But when they were, Rex Reed was there to file them away for history. It is to the reader’s pleasure to rediscover them.
Included in Conversations in the Raw are profiles of Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Myrna Loy, Simone Signoret, Patricia Neal, Oskar Werner, Paul Newman, Joseph Losey, Omar Sharif, Albert Finney, Jean Seberg, Leslie Caron, Burt Bacharach, George Sanders, James Earl Jones, Oliver Reed, Jon Voight, and many more.
Conversations In The Raw edition by Rex Reed Arts Photography eBooks
Celebrity profiles, but with depth. Rex Reed profiles the stars and celebrities of the time (1970's) in a way that makes them stand off the page and seem very much alive. Their stories are told in the celebrities' own words, mostly, and you get a real feeling of who these people are. Reed also writes in what was then considered a new and unusual style for non-fiction - new journalism - applying creative fiction writing techniques to non-fiction subjects that made the subjects stand out with greater impact.Product details
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I knew about Rex Reed's first book, Do You Sleep In the Nude?, and loved it, but somehow I didn't know about this second volume, Conversations in the Raw. It is almost like a sister publication to the first book and is just as delightful. Reed was simply the best profile writer around in my opinion. The other two profile books are great too. Do yourself a favor and dig into these. If you love Hollywood and Hollywood people, then how can you possibly live without these books?
Oh, I love Rex Reed. He's so scathingly un-forgiving of those who dare try and pass off their feeble attempts at the various arts as "talent." What makes his witty, biting assessments so potent is that his often brutal honesty is usually right on the money, as they say. Not that he doesn't occasionally find praise for certain performers or performances, but, it's his critiques of the often hypocritical, pretentious, or mediocre efforts of the entertainment business that will have you screeching in aghast hysterics, and, feeling relief that you're not on the end of his verbal sword. Sexy Rexy tells it like NO ONE else can, and his pieces on various personalities from this book, or any of his others, though they were written 20 years ago or more, are just as witty, fresh, and unique as his column, which you can still read today in The New York Observer. Though often written, you can be sure, with his trademark blase' sneer of contempt, he says what no one else DARE say, leaving the poor deflated victims in his wake. He is the most erudite, clever, brilliantly funny critic we've ever had. Whether it be a book, movie, social function (Liza's wedding!), or play, his yah or nay is needle sharp in its accuracy. "Conversations In The Raw" was the first book of his that I bought, and, after being so outrageously entertained and informed, I made it a point to acquire all of his books... most are out of print, but worth the search. His pen, though often dipped in poison, is always honest in its observations of the folly around him. If you were good, he will praise you as no one else can, but, if not, oh dear....better leave town for the weekend.
Delightful second collection of Rex Reed's essays (following DO YOU SLEEP IN THE NUDE?), published in 1969, it collects previously published pieces from The New York Times, Women's Wear Daily, Holiday, This Week, Playbill and Cosmopolitan magazine.
There are profiles/interviews with Bette Davis, Ruth Gordon, Jane Wyman, Indred Bergman, Myra Loy, Uta Hagen, Simone Signoret, Patricia Neal, Zoe Caldwell, Oskar Werner, Colleen Dewhurst, Irene Papas, Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Joseph Losey, Omar Sharif, Albert Finney, Jean Seberg, Mart Crowley, Leslie Caron, Burt Bacharach, George Sanders, James Earl Jones, China Machado (editor of Harper's Bazaar), Oliver Reed, Jon Voight, Carol White, Leonard Whiting & Olivia Hussey, and Patty Duke. He also goes on the sets of several films to give abehind-the-scenes look at their making PAINT YOUR WAGON, THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Francius Foird Coppola's YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW. And there are overviews of the (1968) 40th annual Academy Awards, the (1968) 25th annual Golden Globes, Mickey Mouse's 40th birthday party, and life in Malibu, California.
A great time capsule of film writing.
Going way back in time but a fun read. Interesting to see people views in the mid-sixties and how their lives actually turn out. Lesson reinforced is we typically never have a clue where we will end up. Enjoy the ride.
Celebrity profiles, but with depth. Rex Reed profiles the stars and celebrities of the time (1970's) in a way that makes them stand off the page and seem very much alive. Their stories are told in the celebrities' own words, mostly, and you get a real feeling of who these people are. Reed also writes in what was then considered a new and unusual style for non-fiction - new journalism - applying creative fiction writing techniques to non-fiction subjects that made the subjects stand out with greater impact.
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