Elia Kazan: A Biography

He was such a vivid character. And it was a character he made up - this slightly ghoulish, heavy-set man who made up jokes on his TV series,

His work was generally superb,

There must be other figures who have broadened out in other fields, but not with her energy and focus. Working that hard maybe does something good for you.

You feel like it's not just a guy up there reading copy that people prepared for him to read. That's a good quality and increasingly rare in the television climate of our times. He's something a lot more than just a talking head.

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.