Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Today, we've got two nonfiction books for you that touch on this sort of bygone era of Hollywood.

In a bit, we'll hear from an author who digs into the short marriage between actor and writer Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper and how this relationship had actual real-life cultural ramifications

on the American art scene. But first, writer, director, and producer George Stevens, has

Hollywood in his blood. His dad was a big shot movie director, and so he spent a lot of his

formative years on movie sets, soaking it all in.

His new memoir, My Place in the Sun, yes, is in part about schmoozing with some famous people and getting to do all the cool things that affords.

But you can hear in this interview with NPR Scott, Simon, that it's also a story about

that long road to getting your dad's respect, which is something I think even

non-Hollywood types can relate to.

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slash pets. We've got a few minutes to talk now about a book about a life that's 90 years long

and still going strong. It has memories of having milkshakes with

a teenage Elizabeth Taylor, producing the Kennedy Center honors, being in and out of

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