Valentines & Vitriol

Description for VALENTINES & VITRIOL by Rex Reed with and introduction by Liz Smith:

When celebrities talk to Rex Reed they find themselves revealing more about their lives, their friends and enemies---and, ultimately, the way we live now---than when they talk to any other journalist. For example:

BETTE DAVIS: "Karen Black changes her makeup in the middle of a scene so nothing matches on the screen, she sleeps all day, never gores to rushes to see what she looks like, and you can't hear one bloody thing she says on the set. When I made movies, you could hear me in a tunnel!"

DAVID BOWIE: "I like men, I like black girls, I can be a hundred different people in a hundred different scenes."

VALERIE PERRINE: "I'd much rather be getting laid...I wanna play a whore again. It's so much more fun to be tacky!"

LILLIAN HELLMAN on Tallulah Bankhead: "That hatred was mutual."

Sylvia Syms, Marvin Hamlisch, Dody Goodman, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Sophia Loren, Jeff Bridges, Pearl Bailey, WAlter Matthau, Melina Mercour, Jacqueline Susann, Carol Channing, and the Andrews Sisters are among the other stars who send valentines and vitriol flying every which way in this dazzling new book by the bestselling author of PEOPLE ARE CRAZY HERE and DO YOU SLEEP IN THE NUDE?