Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit
[ 2006-04-20 11:43 ]
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中文譯名: 《奧黛麗·赫本》
Publisher: Atria
ISBN: 0671024795
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注：紐約時報最暢銷圖書，作者為赫本的兒子Sean Hepburn Ferrer，大量照片表達了兒子對母親的懷念。
Hepburn's son (with actor Mel Ferrer) shows his mother as a
compassionate, emotional woman who searched for and offered love above
all. He traces the roots of his mother's longing in her experiences with
her distant father and the destruction of her native Belgium during WWII.
Via photos and stories, he notes how Hepburn (1929-1993) aimed to live an
everyday family life of home, school and holidays. Rendering her husbands
respectfully and without off-color stories, Ferrer doesn't offer
lascivious behind-the-scenes dramas or quips about directorial injustices.
Instead, he lets designers and composers who worked with Hepburn
talk about the actor's inimitable talents. Composer Henry Mancini believes
her "quality of wistfulness" inspired the songs he wrote for her,
especially Breakfast at Tiffany's "Moon River." Designer Cecil Beaton
calls her an "authentic existential Galatea" with a voice containing the
"quality of heartbreak." Ferrer also details Hepburn's influential
friendship with clothing designer Hubert de Givenchy, including the
dressmaker's generosity in Hepburn's final days.
Directors William
Wyler and Billy Wilder also appear, as do actors Gary Cooper and Fred
Astaire (the latter was Hepburn's co-star in her favorite movie, Funny
Face). Movie-related photos abound, but the most memorable images are of
Hepburn's family and the children she met in her work with UNICEF. Her
1989 speech to members of the United Nations staff on the millions of
dying children in developing countries concludes the book. What began as a
son's remembrance and selective movie survey becomes a call to action. In
this way, the work differs greatly from standard self-important star bios.
300 full-color and b&w photos. |
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