 It was said that he made this a condition of submitting the book for publication; his payment from the publisher was over a million dollars.Specific mention is made of figures such as Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, John F. Kennedy, David Niven, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, amongst many others.His actual coverage of his films tends to be succinct, characterised more by anecdotes than step-by-step descriptions of production.