Katharine Hepburn: A Bad Case of HEPBURN

"How dare you keep me waiting? Are you that stupid?"

Not a good beginning. Not good at all. An interview with Katharine Hepburn is not easy under the best of circumstances, even when her publisher has set it up to publicize the paperback release of her best-selling autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life. It is going to be awfully hard to ask what she was thinking of carrying on a 27-year affair with the married Spencer Tracy if she keeps her back turned to me the whole time. Apologies are definitely in order.

"I'm sorry I'm late, really I am."

"You...

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