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Howard
Hawks
The
Grey
Fox
of
Hollywood
Description
The first major biography of
one of Old
Hollywood8217sgreatest
directors. nbspSometime 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
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declare his independence from the major studios.
He played Svengali to Lauren Bacall, Montgomery
Clift, and others, but Hawks8217sgreatest
creation may have been himself. As The Atlantic
Monthly noted, 8220Tod McCarthy.nbspnbspnbsp
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.8221nbsp8220Afluent biography of the
great director, a frequently rotten guy but one
whose artistic independence and standards of film
morality never failed.82218212Th New York
Times Book Review nbsp8220Haks8217slife,
until now rather an enigma, has been put into
focus and made one with his art in Todd
McCarthy8217swise and funny Howard
Hawks.82218212Th Wall Street
Journal nbsp8220Exellent.nbspnbspnbsp A
respectful, exhaustive, and appropriately
smartass look at Hollywood8217smost versatile
director.82218212Nesweek
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