Patrick McGilligan (biographer)
Patrick McGilligan (born April 22, 1951)[1] is an Irish American biographer, film historian and writer. His biography on Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light, was a finalist for the Edgar Award.[2] He is the author of two New York Times Notable Books. He lives in Milwaukee. McGilligan is noted for his biography on Clint Eastwood, Clint: The Life and Legend, which shaves three years off Sondra Locke's birthdate and operates under that false premise.[a][b] In addition to Hitchcock and Eastwood, he wrote biographies on Robert Altman, James Cagney, George Cukor, Fritz Lang, Oscar Micheaux, Jack Nicholson, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles and Mel Brooks. He edited Backstory, which featured interviews of Hollywood screenwriters and was published by the University of California Press.[7]
Notable works
[edit]- Funny Man: Mel Brooks
- Clint: The Life and Legend
- George Cukor: A Double Life
- Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
- Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
- Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
- Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
- Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director
- Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist with Paul Buhle
Notes
[edit]- ^ Locke was born in 1944, a fact which invalidates the bedrock of the stories told in Clint: The Life and Legend. On page 229, McGilligan reports her birth year as 1947, and the lie is used as a reference point for more subterfuge on pages 260, 289, 312, 347, 388 and 409. McGilligan repeats this disinformation in the 2015 revised edition, even though Locke's true age had been nationally acknowledged for several years by that point.[3][4]
- ^ A 1989 Sylvia Slaughter article in The Tennessean exposed Locke's true age to some three million readers, with People magazine following suit.[5][6] McGilligan had to have come across this authoritative piece during preliminary research and willfully ignored its revelations. Seeing how Locke was the principal interviewee for his book, McGilligan lying on the late star's behalf by pegging her age to a more preferred birthdate should not come as too great a surprise.
References
[edit]- ^ Patrick Michael McGilligan at Encyclopedia.com
- ^ "Patrick McGilligan from HarperCollins Publishers". Harper Collins. Archived from the original on 2006-11-03.
- ^ Raymond, Kitty (May 28, 2010). "HAPPY BIRTHDAY for May 28". San Francisco Examiner. "Actress Sondra Locke is 66."
- ^ Brekus, Pete (May 28, 2011). "Almanac". The Express-Times. "Actress-director Sondra Locke is 67."
- ^ Slaughter, Sylvia (May 28, 1989). "Sondra vs. Clint in palimony suit". The Tennessean. "Don Locke loves his sister. He misses her, and he regrets the fact that his three daughters don't have any knowledge of Sondra other than what they see on TV or in print or hear from gossipmongers. 'Sondra's not this kind of bad character,' he says. 'Maybe she's changed, but she was my big sister who used to play baseball with me. Sondra's gonna be 45 May 28 ...' Locke's publicist claims Sondra will be 42 today."
- ^ Waggoner, Diana (August 7, 1989). "When Harry Left Sondra". People. "Locke, 45, was directing the thriller Impulse last April when she received a letter from Eastwood’s attorney informing her that the locks on their Bel Air home had been changed."
- ^ Riskin, Robert; McGilligan, Patrick (1997). Six Screenplays. University of California Press. ISBN 0585332606. OCLC 45843349.
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