Apropos of my recent piece for the York University’s 50 years of disruption series, I interviewed actors/actresses on their opinions of critics and criticism. I wanted to know their opinion of my proposed job before I went into a theatre and commented about their job. (a novel idea, I know, but still….)
I wrote and asked Katharine Hepburn if I could interview her on the subject (I think she was in Toronto doing Coco). I got the following note from her secretary:
Dear Miss Slotkin
Miss Hepburn is sorry but she really
cannot help you how to be a critic-
they just seem to grow and be a nuisance-
Yours sincerely
Phyllis Wilbourn