A slapdash cut and paste bio for the most part, filled with slackness (the author doesn't comment on films like Wills and Burke and the Bit Part because he couldn't get the VHS - you're a biographer, sunshine), only a few interviews, some irritating seeming typos (was Ron Howard in a slump after Parenthood and Backdraft?) and sweeping comments about its lead.
It is worth reading for one section - or rather, there is one section worth reading: an interview with the model who got to hump Nickers for the fantasy sequence in Eyes Wide Shut. This interview goes on for about four pages and it is riveting - he was picked for the film without knowing what it was about and spent six days naked with Nickers while Stanley Kubrick overlooked the whole thing, directing them into various positions; Nickers was generally game but even she called a halt every now and then (she even more a protective thing over her vagina so the bloke could go down on her). This section is weird, kinky and slightly erotic - it would make a great short film. I know Kubrick was a genius but he was also a dirty perve. The rest of the book is crap.
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