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Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

Brando, Robert Frost and the Other Men in Patricia Bosworth's Life

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

iHeartPodcasts

Tv & Film, Music, Music Interviews, Arts, Performing Arts, Film Interviews

4.48.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mark Twain once likened biographies to “the clothes and buttons of the man” saying “the biography of the man himself, cannot be written.” The quote is a favorite of Patricia Bosworth, a 1950s model-actor turned biographer known for capturing the lives of

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0:00.0

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0:22.7

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0:57.4

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1:08.0

I'm going to help y'all learn how to cook and bake new things as we get to know our guests through

1:12.4

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1:17.6

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1:23.6

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1:30.1

wherever you get your podcasts. This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the Thing.

1:42.4

Mark Twain once likened biographies to what he called, quote,

1:46.2

the close and buttons of the man. He said quote, the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

1:53.2

The quote is a favorite of Patricia Bosworth in 1950's Broadway star,

1:58.3

turned biographer who for 40 years has been proving Twain's words wrong. In her books,

2:04.8

Bosworth has captured the essence of elusive artists like Montgomery Clifft, Marlon Brando,

2:11.1

and New York Underworld photographer Deanna Arbus. These men and women were revered but broken,

2:17.2

larger than life characters doomed to self-destruct. It's a type Patricia Bosworth knows, first hand.

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