This was a jewel of a book. I've always been a massive Audrey Hepburn fan, and have eaten breakfast in front of Tiffany's more than once, but I didn't know a great deal about the making of the 1961 movie, nor the juicy details that went along with it. Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's as...
Subtitled “Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman”, Wasson examines the production of the movie and the little black dress that turned Audrey Hepburn into a fashion icon. In recounting the making of the movie, Wasson reveals that Truman Capote, author of the nove...
I nearly had to force myself to start reading this. I confess that I've rarely enjoyed musical movies, and I've never seen any musical play with a professional cast. I've usually rejected them as the wrong kind of absurdity. I should have hated this book. I already knew that Bob Fosse was in s...