I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir by Tony Award winning actor Frank Langella. This isn't a biography but a series of remembrances about the famous and infamous he has known as acquaintances friends, and lovers. Most of the "names" in the book are from show business but there are a few, such as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Queen Mum who played large and small parts in his life. Langella has not written about any living celebrities but in his 50 year acting career his acquaintances were many and varied. This isn't a tell-all book but he doesn't shy away from admitting to romantic and/or sexual liaisons or to discussing bad behavior of himself and others. I just wish he hadn't said Cary Grant was boring in person (Say it isn't so, Frank!).
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