Brief Encounters

Famous actors, writers and singers invariably let their guard down when Brian Brennan interviewed them for the Calgary Herald and Toronto Star because they didn't think a Canadian journalist would be out to "get" them like the tabloid reporters in Britain and the U.S. As a result, Brennan learned little-known facts about their lives and careers that the stars had never revealed publicly before.

For this collection, Brennan has drawn from more than five dozen timeless conversations he had with such luminaries as Sophia Loren (pictured with him on the cover), Chuck Berry, Judy Collins, Tennessee Williams, Kenny Rogers and Tammy Wynette.