TRICKS OF THE TRADE
PUTTING THE RABBIT IN THE HAT, by Brian Cox (Hachette, $37.99)
efore , HBO’s megahit series, plenty of people probably hadn’t heard of Scottish character actor Brian Cox. That all changed with his role as grizzled media mogul Logan Roy, which made him a star and a household name. But who is he? Where did he come from? In his autobiography, Cox tells it straight: poverty-stricken, almost Dickensian childhood in Dundee; beloved father dead by the time the boy was eight; mother in and out of mental institutions. A grim life without great expectations. And then one day, he went to the movies and
