中國的教育給人一種錯覺，讓人總是為全世界華人的成就感到驕傲。時評人長平認為，趙婷成為首位獲得奧斯卡最佳導演獎的亞裔女性，卻在中國遭遇了無情的審查，再一次證明她對中國的判斷是正確的：那是一個遍地謊言的地方。
Katharine Hepburn was born over 108 years ago. See more photos of the actress: http://ti.me/1JNtE0B
(Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
她曾說：眼睛若要變得美麗，那就是多看他人的好處；嘴巴若要變得美麗，那就是要多說好話；若要均衡，只要多吸收知識，那你就永遠不會寂寞。
史賓塞屈塞 (Spencer Tracy) 和凱瑟琳赫本 (Katharine Hepburn) 的愛情故事是好萊塢最引人入勝的愛情故事之一——植根於深深的欽佩、相互尊重和持續超過 25 年的忠誠。 1941 年，當她們在《年度女性》片場第一次見面時，立刻就擦出了火花，但乍看之下似乎不太可能。特雷西是天主教徒，已婚（儘管與妻子關係疏遠），並以保守著稱。另一方面，赫本則大膽、獨立、直言不諱。然而，他們之間的某些差異引發了獨特的聯繫。
他們被稱為電影史上最好的銀幕二人組之一，一起拍攝的九部電影展示了他們毫不費力的化學反應和完美的時機。但在銀幕外，他們的關係卻一直保持低調，這在好萊塢是個公開的秘密，他們極力不讓大眾知道。赫本理解特雷西由於婚姻和宗教信仰而需要謹慎行事，並且從未敦促他做出更公開或傳統的承諾。
儘管他們的個性截然不同，但他們卻完美地互補。特雷西是一個內向、嚴肅的人，他一生都在與不安全感作鬥爭，並與酗酒作鬥爭，赫本成了他的支柱和知己。她毫不猶豫地照顧他，常常犧牲自己的職業抱負，在他需要她的時候出現在他身邊。赫本後來將特雷西描述為她可以無限愛的人，稱他為「我所認識的最好的男人」。
他們的故事中最令人心酸的章節之一是在1967 年共同拍攝最後一部電影《猜猜誰來吃晚餐》時展開的。要求。赫本一直在他身邊，在片場幫助他，記住他的台詞以防他記不住，並確保他在鏡頭前展現出最好的狀態。最後一部電影是他們合作關係的證明；銀幕上的時刻展現出一種溫柔，反映了他們現實生活中的連結。
拍攝結束幾天后，特雷西在睡夢中去世。赫本悲痛欲絕，但沒有參加他的葬禮，以履行他保護家人隱私的願望。她在世時從未公開談論他們關係的細節，但多年後，她在回憶錄《我：我一生的故事》中反思了他們愛的深度。這是一種在好萊塢的浮華、個人挑戰和一生的保密中倖存下來的愛情——一種罕見的、持久的紐帶，俘獲了任何看到它的人的心，即使是通過電影屏幕。
The love story of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn is one of Hollywood’s most intriguing romances—rooted in deep admiration, mutual respect, and a devotion that would last over 25 years. When they first met on the set of Woman of the Year in 1941, the sparks were immediate, but they seemed unlikely at first glance. Tracy was a Catholic, married (though estranged from his wife), and famously reserved. Hepburn, on the other hand, was bold, independent, and outspoken. Yet, something about their differences sparked a unique bond.
They became known as one of the best on-screen duos in film history, with nine movies together that showcased their effortless chemistry and flawless timing. But offscreen, their relationship was kept quiet, an open secret in Hollywood that they fiercely guarded from the public. Hepburn understood Tracy’s need for discretion due to his marriage and religious beliefs and never pressed him for a more public or traditional commitment.
Despite their contrasting personalities, they complemented each other beautifully. Tracy was a private, no-nonsense person who struggled with insecurities and a lifelong battle with alcoholism, and Hepburn became his anchor and confidante. She looked after him without hesitation, often sacrificing her own career aspirations to be there when he needed her. Hepburn would later describe Tracy as someone she could love endlessly, calling him “the best man I ever knew.”
One of the most poignant chapters in their story unfolded during the filming of their final movie together, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in 1967. By then, Tracy was in poor health and could hardly manage the demands of the film. Hepburn was by his side constantly, helping him on set, memorizing his lines in case he struggled to recall them, and ensuring he looked his best on camera. This last movie is a testament to their partnership; the on-screen moments show a tenderness that mirrors their real-life connection.
Just days after they finished filming, Tracy passed away in his sleep. Hepburn was devastated but didn’t attend his funeral, honoring his wish to protect his family’s privacy. She would never speak publicly about the details of their relationship while she was alive, but years later, she reflected on the depth of their love in her memoir, Me: Stories of My Life. It was a love that survived Hollywood’s glitz, personal challenges, and a lifetime of secrecy—a rare, enduring bond that captured the hearts of anyone who glimpsed it, even through a movie screen.
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CHRISTIE'S LONDON | AUDREY HEPBURN
佳士得倫敦於今年9月隆重呈獻集國際知名電影及舞台演員、時尚經典及人道主義倡導者於一身的柯德莉·夏萍（Audrey Hepburn）私人珍藏主題拍賣。旗艦專場拍賣將於9月27日假倫敦國王街舉行，此外由9月19日至10月3日期間亦同時舉行網上拍賣。這批非凡珍藏包含了柯德莉·夏萍曾收藏、使用及特別重視的珍愛之物，記錄了這位二十世紀影壇超級巨星的生活及演藝歷程。是次拍賣的私人物品一直由柯德莉·夏萍的家人擁有，現在首次亮相拍場，並將由9月23日起假佳士得倫敦國王街的藝廊公開展出。焦點拍品包括一系列柯德莉·夏萍曾穿著的服飾，以及附有其親筆註解並收藏的劇本，當中包括其代表作之一的《珠光寶氣》。拍賣更網羅由著名攝影師為柯德莉·夏萍拍攝的原裝照片，大部分均攝於1953年至1968年她演藝事業的巔峰時期。另外還有她珍藏的紀念品及信件，讓人一窺這位一代巨星的精彩人生及輝煌事業。
Christie’s presents the sale of the personal collection of Audrey Hepburn, the globally renowned and celebrated film and stage actress, fashion legend and humanitarian in London this September. The collection of one of the most famous and beloved stars in the history of film and fashion will be showcased in a flagship auction at Christie’s King Street headquarters in London on 27 September, alongside an online sale which will be open for bidding from 19 September until 3 October. The collection is an extraordinary archive chronicling the life and career of arguably the most famous screen actress of the 20th Century through the lens of the objects she collected, used and loved. This is the first time these remarkable, personal items, which have remained in the ownership of Audrey Hepburn’s family, have been offered for sale. The collection will be on view to the public in an exhibition at Christie’s King Street, London from 23 September.
柯德莉·夏萍之私人珍藏
日期：
2017年9月27日
地點：
佳士得倫敦國王街
網上拍賣日期：
2017年9月19日至10月3日
詳情：
www.christies.com/audreyhepburn
日期：
2017年9月27日
地點：
佳士得倫敦國王街
網上拍賣日期：
2017年9月19日至10月3日
詳情：
www.christies.com/audreyhepburn
THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF AUDREY HEPBURN
Date:
27 Sept 2017
Venue:
Christie’s King Street, London
Online Auction Period:
19 Sept - 3 Oct 2017
Detail:
www.christies.com/audreyhepburn
Date:
27 Sept 2017
Venue:
Christie’s King Street, London
Online Auction Period:
19 Sept - 3 Oct 2017
Detail:
www.christies.com/audreyhepburn
Source: Christie's Hong Kong
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懷念赫本的同時，順便練習一下英文中長音 [e]的發音唄！
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懷念赫本的同時，順便練習一下英文中長音 [e]的發音唄！
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2007.10末段蕭伯納談這位運動健將Katharine Hepburn的對話，也很有意思。
The Theatrical Katharine Hepburn, in Journals and Letters
Richard Tucker, 1939
Katharine Hepburn on stage at the Colonial Theater during the Boston run of "The Philadelphia Story," March 1939.
The letter to George C. Tyler, a theatrical producer in New York, suggests a young actress that he “might keep in mind” for a part. “She has had a variety of experience,” it says, and “she comes from a good family.”
The well-bred lady was Katharine Hepburn, and the undated letter, from a family friend, is part of a cache of theater-related photographs, scrapbooks, journals, scripts and more. Four years after Hepburn’s death, the material forms a gift from her estate to the New York Public Library that is to be announced today. The documents, all related to Hepburn’s stage career, offer a revealing glance at her personality, profession and obsessions.
There are fan notes from Henry Fonda, Laurence Olivier and Judy Garland. “I’ve always said
you were our leading actress,” Garland wrote during the 1952 run of “The Millionairess,” 蕭伯納劇本 參考末段 現在可以找到劇本如Plays Extravagant: Too True to Be Good/the Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles/the Millionairess (Bernard Shaw Library) Bernard Shaw (ペーパーバック - 1992/5) before complaining, “I am getting fat and pregnant and mean.” After seeing “The West Side Waltz” in 1981, Charlton Heston wrote, “You have made all our hearts tremble, one time or another.”
Yet as her niece Katharine Houghton explained, Hepburn’s “relationship with the theater was really very problematic.”
She was fired from her first role, in “The Big Pond” in 1928, after one performance. Dorothy Parker memorably wrote in her review of “The Lake” in 1933 that “Miss Hepburn runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
run the gamut of sth
to experience or show the whole range of something:
Jonson has run the gamut of hotel work, from porter to owner of a large chain of hotels.
The trouble was her voice, which Tallulah Bankhead once likened to “nickels dropping in a slot machine.” Hepburn was unable to control it and often lost the ability to speak during performances, Ms. Houghton said. to experience or show the whole range of something:
Jonson has run the gamut of hotel work, from porter to owner of a large chain of hotels.
It made the theater a terrifying place. “‘The Lake’ was such a horrible experience for her,” Ms. Houghton said, “She was sure that the audience was her enemy.”
“She was basically a very, very shy person,” Ms. Houghton continued, “terrified of coming into a room even at family get-togethers.”
In a journal from a 1950-51 road tour of “As You Like It,” Hepburn wrote that she kept her fears of a cold and laryngitis to herself: “I find that people are always ready to bury you and that the only thing that keeps you out of your grave is your own determination to stay out.”
After losing her voice during the run of George Bernard Shaw’s “Millionairess,” she went to a speech coach, Alfred Dixon. Her detailed notes are in the collection, inside a leather-bound folder with the gold-embossed initials “S.T.”
“We’re assuming it belonged to Spencer Tracy,” the great love of her life, Bob Taylor, the collection’s curator, said. (He said the collection should be available to the public in February at the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.)
Not until the outpouring of acclaim for her portrayal of Coco Chanel in the 1969 musical “Coco” did Hepburn, then 62, begin to enjoy performing live, Ms. Houghton said.
Among the finds in the collection is the handwritten text of a short speech that Hepburn gave at the end of a performance of “Coco” on May 8, 1970, at the request of the actor Keir Dullea, who wanted to commemorate the four students shot earlier that week at Kent State University by National Guardsmen.
“Now, you may call them rebels or rabble rousers or anything you please,” Hepburn wrote. “Nevertheless, they were our kids and our responsibility. Our generation are responsible, and we must take time to pause and reflect and do something.” After asking for a moment of silence, she added, “If any of you wish to leave, you are free to do so, for if you do, I know you will still think about it.”
The speech was a surprise, Ms. Houghton said. Hepburn was “very careful not to mix politics with the theater,” she said, adding that her aunt often quoted Tracy’s comment that “actors who got involved in politics can suffer the fate of the man who shot Lincoln.”
In her journal from the “As You Like It” tour, Hepburn meticulously recorded the daily expenses for advertising, the box office receipts, theater descriptions (from the electrical current, “A.C. 110-220,” to which tap had scalding water, “the center”); hotel details (when room service quit for the night); and where to have sweaters professionally washed and blocked.
One episode she recounted was when, driving from Tulsa, Okla., to Wichita, Kan., she and her driver were arrested for speeding. Taken by the police to a lawyer’s office in Blackwell, Okla., Hepburn declared, “I have been arrested by this moron.” Hepburn’s fury grew as they were unable to find a judge. “I said that I was sorry I did not have a week to take off,” she wrote, “and if I ever found an Oklahoma car in Connecticut, I would flatten all the tires.”
She ended up singeing her coat (probably a mink, Ms. Houghton said) on a gas stove. “You must have paid $700 for it,” the lawyer commented.
Hepburn wrote, “I am ashamed to say that I was cheap enough to answer: ‘Certainly not. $5,500.’ And he just looked pathetic, and I must say I felt awfully moronic.”
As Hepburn prepared for the “As You Like It” tour, Lawrence Langner of the Theater Guild was trying to get George Bernard Shaw to sign off on a production of “The Millionairess.” He wrote Hepburn about the meeting he and his wife, Armina, had in London with Shaw, referred to as G.B.S. in his letter:
“G.B.S.: What sort of an athlete is Kate? She has to do judo. That’s what you call jiu-jitsu.
“Armina: She’s a very good athlete.
“G.B.S.: (not hearing correctly) I know she’s a good actress. I mean is she strong?
“Armina: Is she strong? Why, she gets up and plays tennis every morning. She’s one of the most athletic girls I know. She’s terrific.
“G.B.S.: Then I think it’s dangerous for her to play the part.
“L.L. (getting a word in edgeways): Why?
“G.B.S.: Dangerous for the actor she’s doing the judo with. She’ll probably kill him.
“L.L.: Oh, no, G.B.S. She’s a very tender-hearted girl. She wouldn’t kill another actor.”
108 years ago today, May 12, 1907, screen legend Katharine Hepburn was born. Pictured here in 1939 on set of the Broadway play "Philadelphia Story." http://ti.me/1csUmkj #LIFElegends
(Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
The soul dies when you complain." --Katharine Hepburn
"It takes too much energy to feel sorry for yourself; to regret things. I like movement. So does the earth; so does God; so do all the smart people. I want to be on good terms with the earth and God and the smart people, so I keep moving and changing. Whatever you don't like about the life you're living, you can change. And you should. And if you don't want to change things--if you haven't the guts to change things--then get comfortable with things as they are, and move in your own way. But don't complain. There is no reason, ever, to complain. You can stand up for something or someone, and you can demand things be made right for someone or something, but you can never complain. The soul dies when you complain." --Katharine Hepburn/Interview with James Grissom/1990/ #FolliesOfGod
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