Anthony Hopkins remains an enigma
We Did OK, Kid is both a tell-all and tell-nothing memoir
By Kate Mossman
3 November 2025
Therapy plays havoc with the modern celebrity memoir – all the mess of life and fame, so neatly processed. The books you really want to read, big of print and gaudy of title, are those in which motivations remain half glimpsed, major life events are left hanging in a sentence or two, and culpability is met with a shrug of the shoulders. Like Burt Bacharach’s Anyone Who Had a Heart(2013), where, unable or unwilling to look inwards, the American songwriter handed over a chapter to all his ex-wives and printed their testimonies in a different font.
