How to be a Movie Star

I just received another book about Liz that i ordered second hand from Amazon, called 'How to be a Movie Star' by William J. Mann.

Inside the cover I found lots of notes, made about the book. Maybe some other artist has been doing a project about her too. 

I thought i could transcribe what is written here, and then amend my project for a while to do what this person was intending to do. 

But, i had some trouble reading the writing. Thats sometimes a problem with the notes i write too. I wish i had neat handwriting like my friend Anne. But i'm left handed and writing isn't designed for minorities. 

Anyway, here is an attempt at a transcription. I'm not sure it is that helpful actually. It reads more like this person was writing a book about her. Still, i like some of the points. It is funny they're annoyed at the US taxes being higher than the UK, even though we get to go to hospital. I've highlighted the things of interest in red. Here - 

How to be a Movie Star

Transcription of notes found on the first page

no filmography

no ________, is: “The caress of a steel vise”!, of 46; 92

Chap 1 is really chap 5 or 6 – but he is getting the     

_____ of ______

22            _______ Way – no proper noun can be typed

_____ a par of Wikipedia accompaiment

23            a lifestyle so spoiled it would make a

socialist out of Thatcher

29            She conceived of life as a movie, so, given

his ______ ______, does Mann

           98         “Surefire moneymaker” – but nowhere is this explained

                         same for ref to her beauty, etc

 122         She couldn’t boil water

      >137          marriage to Wilding, as to Nicky Hilton, an act –

                          ______ are people ______ at pretending

177          “making movies… never a passion for her” - + it

                 shows

178           part on love worth analysing – he can’t see people

                  ____ Liz are incapable of it

181            cd only be written by a gay!

182            Liz ______ Eddy _____ marriage is phoney –

                   so why doesn’t Mann???

192            “Hollywood happy”, for Don Quix Todd plans on

                   “renting Spain” – the age of US capitalist ______

196             + yet he knows they were children – it’s a bulimic

                    ______, gorging + _____ on ____ _____

218            Todd’s plane crashes – but Mann has already prepared

                   us for the ____ + Eddie Fisher

222            “melodrama was the stuff of E’s life” – see 226 for life

                   + _____ _____

   *244-7            for letters of ______ ______ you been to another age

 257           good eg of Mann’s technique of focussing on life not art

  274-5          Butterfield 8 is her life – except she has never given us

                        what we want – an all American car crash death

  298           she wins Oscar, but Mann can’t see that it was

                    given for nearly dying a page earlier!

         307           MUST QUOTE

Transcription of notes found on the second page

   341      Sandpiper not about _____, ___ _____, but sure

people change the terms of the stories ___ ___ ____

and we call them stars

  346       Liz as milkshake or martini – USE!

  349       Liz as rule breaker – salaries, sweary etc

  351      Another good part about _____ _____ and fame

               direction

 352        Good Burton __

    >>356        V. brave of her, really, to go fat and old for who’s

                        afraid – in the age of Twiggy and _____ ______, . .

358         ______ _____ way line Martha – yet that’s how we

see her

370         US taxrates higher than UK’s!

372-3         Sued coz Cleo _____ were _____ _____

                    morals are blamed

398         drink +______ - no wonder she was

               friends with Jackson

 I'm not sure how useful this has been. I like the bit about the car crash though. This is interesting. I think i'll watch Crash (Cronenburg) again and think about this. There's a lot of re-enacting in that film.