Howard Hawks
The Grey Fox of Hollywood
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Howard Hawks
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Narrated by:
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Ryan Horn
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By:
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Todd McCarthy
About this listen
The first major biography of one of Old Hollywood’s greatest directors. Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Howard Hawks was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first directors to declare his independence from the major studios. He played Svengali to Lauren Bacall, Montgomery Clift, and others, but Hawks’s greatest creation may have been himself. As The Atlantic Monthly noted, “Todd McCarthy. . . . has gone further than anyone else in sorting out the truths and lies of the life, the skills and the insight and the self-deceptions of the work.”
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Critic reviews
"Excellent...a respectful, exhaustive, and appropriately smartass look at Hollywood's most versatile director."—Newsweek
"McCarthy does a good job of distilling not so much a style as an unflinching philosophy of life.... He gives us the stoic, comic essence of Hawks and his films."—Entertainment Weekly
"Spectacular.... McCarthy's thick, rich biography...chronicles in vivid detail how perhaps the last great popular artist in the movies worked."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
Some important points:
Firstly, Howard Hawks is a hero of mine. What an amazing film director! So much talent.
Secondly, Todd McCarthy has done his homework and is a credible and talented writer.
However, the narration is abysmal. Horn's dication is completely off. He pauses at the wrong time, his voice is monotone, and his pronunciation is mindboggling - Peter Bogdanovich is suddenly Bongdanovich! Repeatedly.
I really wanted to enjoy this book. It is exactly the type of biography I love listening to. Maybe this is why I feel so aggrieved.
Truly Awful Narration
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