Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable MeetingsSimon and Schuster, 2012 M08 7 - 384 pages Hello Goodbye Hello is a daisy chain of 101 fascinating true encounters, a book that has been hailed by reviewers in London as “howlingly funny” (The Spectator), “original and a complete delight” (The Sunday Times), and “rich and hugely enjoyable” (The Guardian). Or, as the London Evening Standard put it, “the truth and nothing but the plain, bonkers, howling truth . . . It is partly a huge karmic parlour game, partly a dance to the music of chaos—and only the genius of Craig Brown could have produced it.” Who could imagine such unlikely—but true— encounters as these: Martha Graham meets Madonna Igor Stravinsky meets Walt Disney Frank Lloyd Wright meets Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe meets Nikita Khrushchev President Richard Nixon meets Elvis Presley Harpo Marx meets George Bernard Shaw Cecil Beaton meets Mick Jagger Salvador Dali meets Sigmund Freud Groucho Marx meets T.S. Eliot Brilliant in conception, Hello Goodbye Hello shows how the celebrated and gifted—like the rest of us— got along famously or disastrously or indifferently with one another, but, thanks to Craig Brown, always to our amusement and entertainment. From an opening story in which Adolf Hitler survives being knocked down by a careless English driver in 1931 to the Duchess of Windsor’s meeting with the Führer over tea, and 99 others in between, Hello Goodbye Hello is the perfect example that truth is stranger than fiction (and infinitely more enjoyable). |
Contents
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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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