it was very frightening, working with orson welles, because being as physically huge as he was and having to . well, at that time i was very, very small, like in my teens still. and to work with him was not always the most exciting thing in the world in the manner in which you would think this is, "oh my goodness, this is so exciting. " but it was very scary. and at . at the same time, it was very exciting because i was learning so much all the time, particularly when he was with michael mcleimore and hilton head was from the gate theater in dublin and we would all go to lunch . the four . the three of them and me. they would take me to lunch at the calabdos restaurant in paris. and with each of sip of food and with each sip of a drink, they would get up and they would start talking and reciting shakespeare. or marlowe. or even jesus christus, you know. and it was so exciting that i never wanted to move. i was like a fly on the wall. that's why . i think he said i was the most exciting woman in the world, because i knew when to talk and when not to. (laughter) q: well, your . your career

i had written a number of other biographies, as was said, and from orson wells and aristotle, i approached bobby's life in the same way, as a biographer. you get a sort of microscopic look at his life, and i attempted to leave no fact behind. i mean, that's the way i approach all of my books. i want -- i want to know everything. every trivial fact, okay? i may not use it, but it gives me confidence that i know my subject, and i may use it somewhere along the line. and, you know, there was no library on visited, there was no archive or no research that was not examined on my part. and in addition to approaching this as a biographer or a researcher, i was also an official witness to and a participant in body's career. i was the director of one of the first tournament he ever played as a child in the park in new jersey at the old monterey hotel that doesn't exist any more right on the boardwalk, and bobby was, i don't know, ten doherty 11, whatever he was, and his mother was with him and i didn't talk to bobby at that time, but i noticed him, and he was a magnet for people because he was so t

>> oh, well, for dinner orson wells would be good. >> rose: he would eat a lot. >> he was never at a nteresting words. in fact, i had dinner with wells in lu chow's huge old dark german restaurant. it was the perfect dimensions for or son as well as. he wasn't the ghastly fat that he became and he ordered and there was a plalt they are long and heaped this high and everything german except invasion that you could think of >> rose: so how has life been since you stopped doing that? all those conversations. >> well, i haven't yearned for it the way i thought i might but lately going around being on your show and so i get the feeling i like talking on television and the greatest advice i ever got was from my former boss from bronxville, jack parr. from ohio, i guess. and jack called me before i started and said "kid--" you know what i'm going to say. "look, don't do interviews. that's clip boards and what's your favorite thing and what's your favorite color? and david frost. nobody wants that." i thought well, what does he want me to do if i don't do interviews? sing, dance? he said "mak

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