Four Celebrity Profile Classics by Rex Reed
For more than two decades, the art of the interview was very nearly the sole province of Rex Reed, the Master of the Celebrity Profile.
While still in his 20s Reed became a widely-syndicated film critic based in New York and from that vantage point began to interview everyone in the film and theatre worlds who mattered.
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.
Devault Graves Books has reissued 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.
While still in his 20s Reed became a widely-syndicated film critic based in New York and from that vantage point began to interview everyone in the film and theatre worlds who mattered.
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.
Devault Graves Books has reissued 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.
In Do You Sleep in the Nude, the first of his celebrity profile collections, Reed captures the ego and zany personality of soon-to-be-superstar Barbra Streisand, the elusive Warren Beatty just finishing "Bonnie and Clyde," the last ever interview with legend Buster Keaton, and a classic and much reprinted portrait of Ava Gardner in her waning years.
Others profiled in this book include Carson McCullers, Lucille Ball, Lotte Lenya, Michaelangelo Antonioni, James Mason, Bill Cosby and Marlene Dietrich.
Do You Sleep in the Nude? by Rex Reed
Ebook edition: $4.99, 289 pages, 2013
Buy now from Amazon.
Buy now from Barnes & Noble.
In Conversations in the Raw, Reed turns his focus on cult legends such as Bette Davis and Jean Seberg, international superstar Simone Signoret, screen idols Ingrid Bergman and Paul Newman, and, as always, his unerring choices of newcomers who just might make it big such as Jon Voight just finishing his work on "Midnight Cowboy."
Also included are profiles of Myrna Loy, Patricia Neal, Oskar Werner, Joseph Losey, Omar Sharif, Albert Finney, Leslie Caron, Burt Bacharach, George Sanders, James Earl Jones, Oliver Reed and many others.
Conversations in the Raw by Rex Reed
Ebook edition: $4.99, 256 pages, 2013
Buy now from Amazon.
Buy now from Barnes & Noble.
In Valentines & Vitriol, Reed reports on Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the disastrous Russian-American collaboration "The Bluebird," captures Roy Scheider and Louise Fletcher just as the public is becoming aware of their talents, a late-in-life meeting with legend Bette Davis, William Holden coming to grips with aging and wanderlust, and a surprisingly revealing look at David Bowie who is a much more sensible person than his image suggested.
Also included are profiles of Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Lillian Hellman, Robert Redford and more than 20 others.
Valentines & Vitriol by Rex Reed
Ebook edition: $4.99, 254 pages, 2013
Buy now from Amazon.
Buy now from Barnes & Noble.
Also included are profiles of Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Lillian Hellman, Robert Redford and more than 20 others.
Valentines & Vitriol by Rex Reed
Ebook edition: $4.99, 254 pages, 2013
Buy now from Amazon.
Buy now from Barnes & Noble.
In People Are Crazy Here, Reed writes a long and intimate profile of Tennessee Williams, a rare look at George C. Scott in all his eccentricity, Doris Day's decision to leave Hollywood to care for animals, Jack Nicholson following his early success with "Easy Rider," and much more.
Also included are profiles of Alfred Hitchcock, Ann-Margret, Glenda Jackson, Bette Midler, Grace Slick, Alice Cooper, Cybill Shepherd, Tuesday Weld and more than 20 others.
People Are Crazy Here by Rex Reed
Ebook edition: $4.99, 270 pages, 2013
Buy now from Amazon.
Buy now from Barnes & Noble.
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, Reed was there to file them away for history. It is to your pleasure to rediscover them.
From an Amazon reader review:
"Celebrity profiles, but with depth. Rex Reed profiles the stars and celebrities of the time 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."
But when they were, Reed was there to file them away for history. It is to your pleasure to rediscover them.
From an Amazon reader review:
"Celebrity profiles, but with depth. Rex Reed profiles the stars and celebrities of the time 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."
Devault Graves Books
2197 Cowden Ave.
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 336-8524
2197 Cowden Ave.
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 336-8524