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Title: The Unexpurgated Beaton : The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980 by HUGO VICKERS, CECIL BEATON ISBN: 1-4000-4112-0 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: a few gems in the sick ward
Comment: I eagerly read this book because of the title. I still can't pronounce the word.
Shades of Truman Capote (who is mentioned in Beaton's diaries a few times)! But this wasn't quite the "bitch-fest" we were all hoping for. I hated to read about Diana Cooper's decline, and all the others, the Edwardian actresses, the Windsors, and then a few snippets tucked in about the Guinesses and Rothschilds. Beaton is delightful when his subjects are still well away from death's door, but so many of his entries deal with the impending death and decline of former bright lights. I skipped the pages on his operation. Vickers overplayed the title on this one. I hardly think its worth publishing, though I'm sure he'll make a mint with the delightful P.L. Travers -tyle cover.
Rating: 5
Summary: Autumnal Gossip
Comment: This final volume of Cecil Beaton's diary, which takes us through the photographer-designer-artist-bon vivant's final years, heartily makes one wish that his earlier journals could be re-released similarly unexpurgated. Beaton waxes evil about (among others) Katharine Hepburn, worries about the aging and death of friends and contemporaries (not to mention his own), and records his sometimes unlikely encounters with seventies pop culture. The book is satisfying both as a good, dishy read on its own and as the summing up of a notable artist's long, productive, and generally fascinating creative life (how many people, after all, got to photograph one of Queen Victoria's daughters AND Viva?).
Rating: 1
Summary: What a Downer!
Comment: Mr. Beaton's diary offers several entertaining passages, but it is mainly a chronicle of his physical complaints, his declining health, and sadly, his bodily functions. Boring and depressing. If you really want to read this book, wait for the paperback.
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Title: Slim Aarons: Once Upon a Time by Slim Aarons ISBN: 0810946033 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's Capital by C. David Heymann ISBN: 0743428560 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli by Dilys E. Blum ISBN: 0300100663 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Grace and Power : The Private World of the Kennedy White House by SALLY BEDELL SMITH ISBN: 0375504494 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985 by James McCourt ISBN: 0393050513 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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