Looking foward to this on Kindle. Should be a riot!
Stand back! Sally Burton just lit a literary firecracker and tossed it in the room. The widow of Britain’s greatest film actor is presiding over the long-awaited publication of her late husband’s diaries, and they are beyond explosive.
Opera’s greatest diva, Maria Callas, is “a bore”. Laurence Olivier is a “shallow little man with a mediocre intelligence”. Marlon Brando is a “sober self-indulgent obese fart”, while Lucille Ball is “a monster of staggering charmlessness and monumental lack of humour”.
Michael Parkinson “lost his talent as a promising writer”, and photographer Terry O’Neill is “very little, very scruffy”. The Duke of Windsor is “gaga”, while his wife is “the most vulgar woman I’ve ever met” – this said to her face.
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance."- Taylor Caldwell , 1965