Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable MeetingsSimon and Schuster, 2013 M08 20 - 384 pages From one of England’s wittiest writers, a “captivating, glittering, engaging, entertaining confection” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) of 101 unlikely encounters between pairs of historical figures from Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud to Marilyn Monroe and Frank Lloyd Wright. IMAGINE THESE UNLIKELY—BUT TRUE—ENCOUNTERS: Martha Graham and Madonna Igor Stravinsky and Walt Disney Frank Lloyd Wright and Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe and Nikita Khrushchev President Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley Harpo Marx and George Bernard Shaw Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud Groucho Marx and T. S. Eliot BRILLIANT IN CONCEPTION AND DIZZYING IN EXECUTION, Hello Goodbye Hello is a daisy chain of 101 fascinating true encounters, chance meetings, and disastrous collisions between the celebrated and the gifted, the famous and the infamous. Witty and wicked, Hello Goodbye Hello is the perfect example that truth is stranger than fiction (and infinitely more enjoyable). |
Contents
Adolf Hitler + John ScottEllis | 11 |
Nancy Reagan + Andy Warhol | 26 |
Elizabeth Taylor + James Dean | 41 |
Evelyn Waugh + Igor Stravinsky | 51 |
Walt Disney + P L Travers | 57 |
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff + Frank Lloyd Wright | 64 |
Marilyn Monroe + Nikita Khrushchev | 70 |
George Brown + Eli Wallach | 78 |
George Bernard Shaw + Bertrand Russell | 174 |
Sarah Miles + Terence Stamp | 181 |
Edward Heath + Walter Sickert | 188 |
Winston Churchill + Laurence Olivier | 195 |
JD Salinger + Ernest Hemingway | 202 |
Ford Madox Ford + Oscar Wilde | 209 |
Marcel Proust + James Joyce | 215 |
Harold Nicolson + Cecil Beaton | 222 |
Frank Sinatra + Dominick Dunne | 85 |
Phil Spector + Leonard Cohen | 91 |
Janis Joplin + Patti Smith | 97 |
Allen Ginsberg + Francis Bacon | 103 |
HRH Princess Margaret + Kenneth Tynan | 109 |
Truman Capote + Peggy Lee | 115 |
President Richard M Nixon + Elvis Presley | 123 |
Paul McCartney + Noel Coward | 130 |
Prince Felix Youssoupoff + Grigori Rasputin | 136 |
Tsar Nicholas II + Harry Houdini | 142 |
President Theodore Roosevelt + HG Wells | 149 |
Iosef Stalin + Maxim Gorky | 155 |
Leo Tolstoy + Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky | 161 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff + Harpo Marx | 167 |
Mick Jagger + Tom Driberg | 228 |
Christopher Hitchens + George Galloway | 236 |
Michael Barrymore + Diana Princess of Wales | 244 |
Princess Grace + Alfred Hitchcock | 250 |
Raymond Chandler + Howard Hawks | 256 |
Howard Hughes + Cubby Broccoli | 262 |
George Lazenby + Simon Dee | 269 |
Michael Ramsey + Geoffrey Fisher | 276 |
Roald Dahl + Kingsley Amis | 282 |
Lord Snowdon + Barry Humphries | 288 |
Salvador Dali + Sigmund Freud | 294 |
Gustav Mahler + Auguste Rodin | 301 |
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