WHAT HAVE WE HERE?
AUTHOR BILLY DEE WILLIAMS
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“Everything you’ve heard about me is true”: Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian.
TO MOST, BILLY Dee Williams is Lando Calrissian: the line between him and the smooth-talking, cape-wearing, ladies-loving Star Wars space-smuggler forever blurred. The actor’s autobiography, What Have We Here? Portraits Of ALife, is keen to stress that there’s more to him than that. But the similarities are in plain sight. It seemed that way from the beginning. Born in New York in 1937, Williams describes his parents as “good-looking people with a sharp sense of style”; sartorial sophistication was highly valued in the Williams household. “Sonny, you always tip your hat to a lady,” his father advised him. His mother is described as his “first girlfriend”, one of many old-fashioned phrasings you’ll find here. Williams, now close to 90, is very much of the old school, and takes a traditionalist approach to writing —and a rather old-school approach to salaciousness, too.