Brontë references (2)

Olivier
Terry Coleman
Henry Hold & Company

Based on exclusive, unprecedented access, the definitive biography of Sir Laurence Olivier, the dashing, self-invented Englishman who became the greatest actor of the twentieth century.
Sir Laurence Olivier met everyone, knew everyone, and played every role in existence. But Olivier was as elusive in life as he was on the stage, a bold and practiced pretender who changed names, altered his identity, and defied characterization.
In this mesmerizing book, acclaimed biographer Terry Coleman draws for the first time on the vast archive of Olivier's private papers and correspondence, and those of his family, finally uncovering the history and the private self that Olivier worked so masterfully all his life to obscure.

Brontë reference:
This biography contains a chapter devoted to the 1939's Wuthering Heights.
Chapter 9 The Making of Wuthering Heights
A brief excerpt:

He set off cocksure of himself, confident that he understood the character of Heathcliff, later saying he had done his homework, having learned from Garbo, who had known everything there was to know about Queen Christina. That is how he remembered it, but in truth he had not done his homework. He had seen the screenplay, but he had not even read Emily Brontë's novel. He took it with him on the Normandie but lost it after three days, bought another copy in New York, and was still finishing on his two-day flight from New York to Los Angeles. (...)
Olivier was obsessed with his appearance and had himself heavily made up as Heathcliff as he ages throughout the film, first aged seventeen, then twenty, then thirty, and finally fifty. Wyler [the film's director] scoffed.

Drama Kings : The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy
Dalma Heyn
Rodale Books

The bestselling author of The Erotic Silence of the American Wife is back with another provocative peek at women's secret lives.
Have you ever looked at one of your women friends and asked yourself, "She's so terrific — why is she with him?" In her newest book, Dalma Heyn examines a rising trend in today's relationships — the coupling of high-achieving women with men Heyn terms "Drama Kings," weaker men who are drawn to the women's strength but ultimately attempt to sabotage it. These men create chaos in relationships, driving the women crazy in the process.

Brontë reference:
The beginning quote of Chapter Seven (Drama King #5: The Feeling-Impaired Guy) is from Charlotte Brontë.

"Better to be without logic than without feeling." -Charlotte Brontè, The Professor

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