Frank Langella true memoir

Frank Langella's memoir, Dropped Names, is a true memoir, that is, a collection of memories of other people. "The word has been corrupted these days to mean essentially the recounting of anything traumatic or even vaguely interesting that happened to the author, but it used to be more commonly used to describe recollections of famous figures: other people....A natural raconteur, he seems to fit precisely Henry James's famous description of the novelist as one 'on whom nothing is lost.'"--Charles Isherwood, NYTimes, 4/14/12, review of Dropped Names