Name Dropping: The Life & Loves of Kate Fitzpatrick An Incomplete Memoir

by Kate Fitzpatrick

In this much-awaited memoir, Kate Fitzpatrick, darling of the Australian stage and screen, reflects upon a lifetime of knowing and loving some of Australia's, and indeed the world's, most famous and controversial identities. With a delightful mix of humour, name-dropping and self-deprecation, Kate Fitzpatrick reveals the twists and turns of a life that has seen her become a respected actress, writer and speech writer, and a not-so-respected cricket commentator. In these candid confessions we are led through Kate's life, from her early childhood in Adelaide to leaving her eccentric, warm family to enrol at NIDA. Kate rapidly became much in demand as an actor, and her critically acclaimed work, together with her razor-sharp wit and eye for detail, ensured that her profile soared. Her myth-making friendship with Patrick White is laid bare, along with her personal relationships with some of the world's most sought-after men. this book is by turns hilarious, turbulent, painfully truthful and self-deprecating, and is an unashamed look at slices of Kate's colourful and brilliant, careers, loves and lives Namedropping is a high-spirited memoir teeming with fascinating snippets and insights into other people and places.

534 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2010

Reviews

[Michael Burge · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book takes a while to get going. It's jerky, unfocussed and a bit all over the place, but it's fascinating.

I solved the problem by reading many chapters in reverse order, since it required me to be an editor as much as a reader.

Australian showbiz exposes don't come any more exposed than this, and Fitzpatrick is just self deprecating enough to get away with it, especially since the title of her book occupies the main criticism many might level at her efforts.

Unfortunately it's over just as it gets interesting. Like a schoolgirl caught-short in an English exam, Fitzpatrick tells you what she would have written about, had she made the effort.

Most enlightening were the author's litigation revelations - some of the people involved are still in showbiz and still getting themselves (and others) into webs of maleficence, making this work a legal advice document as much as anything else.

[Roz Naughton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful . Full of very interesting people Kate has met. I loved it .

[Nola · Rating 3 out of 5]

This certainly is a "Name Dropping" book. Kate cautiously doesn't devolve a few of her paramours.