Hasta La Ideas

Howard Kurtz has an exclusive first look at Out Came the Sun, actress Mariel Hemingway’s forthcoming memoir. He calls it “remarkably candid” and “anything but a gauzy memoir.”

There’s some explosive stuff in the book about Woody Allen. Hemingway also shares an even more blatant in-kind memory involving her Star 80 director:

They [Hemingway, Bob Fosse] were drinking one night at the Beverly Hills Hotel and Fosse wanted to go upstairs: The elevator let us off at my floor. I let us into my room. And then, for the next 15 minutes, I ran rings around the couch while Bob Fosse chased me for purposes of sex. ‘I have a boyfriend,’ I said.

That didn’t dissuade him one bit… ‘Well, I’m not interested,’ I said.

This stopped him for a moment. He steadied himself on the couch and looked at me. ‘I have never not [blanked] my leading lady,’ he said.

Hemingway’s retort: ‘Meet the first.’

The book, with a title that is cleverly evocative of The Sun Also Rises, comes out April 7. Along with a companion tome aimed at younger female readers, Invisible Girl. Read the rest of Kurtz’s piece here.
 
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