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...author claims to have employed "six or seven" researchers during his four-year labor. But in a Los Angeles Times survey, seven of nine principals whose words and thoughts Heymann duly recorded claim they were never interviewed. To support Hutton's own version of a lavish Paris party, Heymann adds the observation that Composer Ned Rorem saw her dancing "moodily with Aly Khan." But Rorem's Paris Diary notes instead that Hutton danced with "one of the forgotten gigolos...
...Heymann, 38, a former university lecturer and book reviewer, is unrepentant. Says he: "I think I did a credible job. I wanted to give a 'mise en scène,' and it catches the flavor of her whole life." Trouble is, Heymann's "flavor" often seems to leave a bad taste. His 1976 book Ezra Pound: The Last Rower contained what Heymann said was an original interview with the poet. Critic Hugh Kenner, however, found a remarkably similar one in an obscure Italian journal printed years before. Scholars have charged that Heymann's 1980 volume...
Questions have been raised about the authenticity of Heymann's original material. For example, Hutton's third husband, Cary Grant, does not remember that the hazy millionaire ever kept a diary. Los Angeles Interior Designer Robert Crowder, a Hutton intimate in her last years, finds it curious that she never mentioned Heymann's interviews. The author's defense: a photo copy of a letter from Hutton referring to meetings between them...
...authors are solely responsible for verifying facts. "My company does 700 books a year," explains Thomas J. McCormack, president of St. Martin's Press. "We would go bust examining them a11." Recalling them may prove more expensive. Random House is spending an estimated $150,000 to buy back Heymann's book, and will forfeit a prospective six-figure paperback sale...
Nonetheless, plans for the film are proceeding as if nothing untoward had happened, and several publishers have expressed interest in reprinting Poor Little Rich Girl, factoids and all. "If it ever comes out again," claims Heymann, "because of all the publicity it would do extraordinarily well...