Author: William Cook
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007212224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"Containing diary entries, hundreds of his own unpublished photographs, jokes, sketches and personal letters, this book has been created using new, private material that had beed stored in Eric Morecambe's study since his death"--Jacket.
Eric Morecambe Unseen
Author: William Cook
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007212224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"Containing diary entries, hundreds of his own unpublished photographs, jokes, sketches and personal letters, this book has been created using new, private material that had beed stored in Eric Morecambe's study since his death"--Jacket.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007212224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"Containing diary entries, hundreds of his own unpublished photographs, jokes, sketches and personal letters, this book has been created using new, private material that had beed stored in Eric Morecambe's study since his death"--Jacket.
Eric Morecambe Unseen: The Lost Diaries, Jokes and Photographs
Author: William Cook
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008363455
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
This is a completely original book on Eric Morecambe, one of the UK’s best-loved entertainers. Containing diary entries, unseen photographs and personal letters, this is the most revealing book yet on Morecambe.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008363455
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
This is a completely original book on Eric Morecambe, one of the UK’s best-loved entertainers. Containing diary entries, unseen photographs and personal letters, this is the most revealing book yet on Morecambe.
Eric Morecambe: Life's Not Hollywood It's Cricklewood
Author: Gary Morecambe
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446417972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In this fascinating autobiography Erics son, Gary Morecambe, describes what it’s like to grow up in the presence of one of the best-loved and most fondly remembered of all British comedy greats. Eric and Ernie brought sunshine and laughter to the people of Britain for an amazing 22 years. Includes photos from the Morecambe family archive and unseen extracts from his father’s personal diaries. Frank and outspoken, this book provides a compelling insight into the man behind the laughter, a man who was constantly worried that one day he would be found out, who never lost his love of Long John Silver impressions, and who continued to work until heart disease finally killed him at only 58 years of age.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446417972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In this fascinating autobiography Erics son, Gary Morecambe, describes what it’s like to grow up in the presence of one of the best-loved and most fondly remembered of all British comedy greats. Eric and Ernie brought sunshine and laughter to the people of Britain for an amazing 22 years. Includes photos from the Morecambe family archive and unseen extracts from his father’s personal diaries. Frank and outspoken, this book provides a compelling insight into the man behind the laughter, a man who was constantly worried that one day he would be found out, who never lost his love of Long John Silver impressions, and who continued to work until heart disease finally killed him at only 58 years of age.
The Lost Diaries
Author: Craig Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007436491
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
'The Lost Diaries' is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007436491
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
'The Lost Diaries' is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.
One Leg Too Few
Author: William Cook
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409051927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
One Leg Too Few will feature an extensive range of fresh interviews, previously unpublished archive material and a wealth of information about the most creative (and explosive) double act that British comedy has ever produced. One Leg Too Few is a book about an extraordinary relationship: a friendship, a partnership - almost, at times, a marriage. Like a lot of marriages it ended badly, but for nearly 20 years, between the first date and the inevitable divorce, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were the funniest thing on three continents. One Leg Too Few is the story of that relationship, and the comedy that came from it.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409051927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
One Leg Too Few will feature an extensive range of fresh interviews, previously unpublished archive material and a wealth of information about the most creative (and explosive) double act that British comedy has ever produced. One Leg Too Few is a book about an extraordinary relationship: a friendship, a partnership - almost, at times, a marriage. Like a lot of marriages it ended badly, but for nearly 20 years, between the first date and the inevitable divorce, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were the funniest thing on three continents. One Leg Too Few is the story of that relationship, and the comedy that came from it.
Eddie Braben’s Morecambe and Wise Book
Author: Eddie Braben
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448142024
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
With a brand new introduction by Eddie Braben and including never-before-seen material Morecambe and Wise charmed a nation for decades and at their height commanded TV audiences that could only be matched by the moon landings and the 1966 World Cup final. Often called the third member of Morecambe and Wise, the late Eddie Braben was the quiet genius behind their best-loved jokes. Here, collected together for the first time, is a celebration of the finest repartee Braben ever penned for them - the banter between Eric and Little Ern, lines from those horrendous plays what Ernie wrote, and the unforgettable celebrity encounters with such names as Glenda Jackson, Andre Previn and, of course, Des O'Connor. The perfect Christmas stocking-filler for Eric and Ernie fans young and old. Ernie: Can you remember the first words you spoke in the theatre? Eric: I'll never forget them. How could I? 'This way, please! Programmes!...' After a couple of months came my big break. That great Shakespearian actor and dance band leader, Sir Lawrence Olivier came to the theatre. Ernie: What happened? Eric: He came up to me. My heart stopped. He said, ' Young man, have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?' Ernie: What did you say? Eric: I said, 'Only two of them.' He said, 'Which ones?' I said, 'Romeo and Juliet.' So he put me in his next play. Ernie: What was it about? Eric: It was about thirty minutes too long.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448142024
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
With a brand new introduction by Eddie Braben and including never-before-seen material Morecambe and Wise charmed a nation for decades and at their height commanded TV audiences that could only be matched by the moon landings and the 1966 World Cup final. Often called the third member of Morecambe and Wise, the late Eddie Braben was the quiet genius behind their best-loved jokes. Here, collected together for the first time, is a celebration of the finest repartee Braben ever penned for them - the banter between Eric and Little Ern, lines from those horrendous plays what Ernie wrote, and the unforgettable celebrity encounters with such names as Glenda Jackson, Andre Previn and, of course, Des O'Connor. The perfect Christmas stocking-filler for Eric and Ernie fans young and old. Ernie: Can you remember the first words you spoke in the theatre? Eric: I'll never forget them. How could I? 'This way, please! Programmes!...' After a couple of months came my big break. That great Shakespearian actor and dance band leader, Sir Lawrence Olivier came to the theatre. Ernie: What happened? Eric: He came up to me. My heart stopped. He said, ' Young man, have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?' Ernie: What did you say? Eric: I said, 'Only two of them.' He said, 'Which ones?' I said, 'Romeo and Juliet.' So he put me in his next play. Ernie: What was it about? Eric: It was about thirty minutes too long.
Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise
Author: Stephen Hamrick
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030339580
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century’s most successful double-act. Over the course of a forty-four-year career (1940-1984), Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise appropriated snippets of verse, scenes, and other elements from seventeen of Shakespeare’s plays more than one-hundred-and-fifty times. Fashioning a kinder, more inclusive world, they deployed a vast array of elements connected to Shakespeare, his life, and institutions. Rejecting claims that they offer only nostalgic escapism, Hamrick analyses their work within contemporary contexts, including their engagement with many forms and genres, including Variety, the heritage industry, journalism, and more. ‘The Boys’ deploy Shakespeare to work through issues of class, sexuality, and violence. Lesbianism, drag, gay marriage, and a queer aesthetics emerge, helping to normalize homosexuality and complicate masculinity in the ‘permissive’ 1960s.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030339580
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century’s most successful double-act. Over the course of a forty-four-year career (1940-1984), Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise appropriated snippets of verse, scenes, and other elements from seventeen of Shakespeare’s plays more than one-hundred-and-fifty times. Fashioning a kinder, more inclusive world, they deployed a vast array of elements connected to Shakespeare, his life, and institutions. Rejecting claims that they offer only nostalgic escapism, Hamrick analyses their work within contemporary contexts, including their engagement with many forms and genres, including Variety, the heritage industry, journalism, and more. ‘The Boys’ deploy Shakespeare to work through issues of class, sexuality, and violence. Lesbianism, drag, gay marriage, and a queer aesthetics emerge, helping to normalize homosexuality and complicate masculinity in the ‘permissive’ 1960s.
Tragically I Was an Only Twin
Author: Peter Cook
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312318918
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This is a unique collection of Cook's finest and funniest writings of which many have never been published before.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312318918
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This is a unique collection of Cook's finest and funniest writings of which many have never been published before.
Victoria Wood Unseen on TV
Author: Jasper Rees
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1398707481
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
'There was none like her before and there's been none like her since' Dawn French In the five years since Victoria Wood's death, one great sadness has been the realisation that we will never again be surprised by new material from her. But as part of the research for Let's Do It, the critically acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller, her official biographer Jasper Rees uncovered a treasure chest of unseen work. From her first piece of comic prose, for the school magazine, through to material written for the great TV shows of her maturity, this joyful hoard of unreleased material spans nearly half a century. Victoria Wood: Unseen on TV is a unique and intimate insight into the working of an irreplaceable genius of comedy. From the first to the last, here are sketches, songs and stand-up monologues that no one else could have written, which will make you laugh in the way that only she could. 'He was a lovely man he had a lovely gap between his two front teeth. I specially noticed it cos he had a mushy pea stuck in it. He said can I take you home I said hang on I haven't finished my Tizer. So, we get home he says can I come in for a coffee. I said I haven't got any coffee but you can come in for a Horlicks if you don't mind sucking your own lumps.' Praise for Let's Do It: 'Rees pulls off the trick of writing a brilliant tribute while also - somehow, almost - bringing Victoria Wood back to life in all her complicated glory.' Guardian 'An immersive, authoritative book' Spectator 'Impeccable' Daily Telegraph 'A must-read' Daily Mirror 'A joy' Daily Mail
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1398707481
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
'There was none like her before and there's been none like her since' Dawn French In the five years since Victoria Wood's death, one great sadness has been the realisation that we will never again be surprised by new material from her. But as part of the research for Let's Do It, the critically acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller, her official biographer Jasper Rees uncovered a treasure chest of unseen work. From her first piece of comic prose, for the school magazine, through to material written for the great TV shows of her maturity, this joyful hoard of unreleased material spans nearly half a century. Victoria Wood: Unseen on TV is a unique and intimate insight into the working of an irreplaceable genius of comedy. From the first to the last, here are sketches, songs and stand-up monologues that no one else could have written, which will make you laugh in the way that only she could. 'He was a lovely man he had a lovely gap between his two front teeth. I specially noticed it cos he had a mushy pea stuck in it. He said can I take you home I said hang on I haven't finished my Tizer. So, we get home he says can I come in for a coffee. I said I haven't got any coffee but you can come in for a Horlicks if you don't mind sucking your own lumps.' Praise for Let's Do It: 'Rees pulls off the trick of writing a brilliant tribute while also - somehow, almost - bringing Victoria Wood back to life in all her complicated glory.' Guardian 'An immersive, authoritative book' Spectator 'Impeccable' Daily Telegraph 'A must-read' Daily Mirror 'A joy' Daily Mail
Elstree Studios
Author: Paul Burton
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
ISBN: 9781782433811
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published in association with Elstree Studios, Elstree: A Celebration is a tribute to over a century of world-class film and TV, and provides an intriguing insight into the past glories and hurdles of Elstree Studios and looks forward to an exciting future.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
ISBN: 9781782433811
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published in association with Elstree Studios, Elstree: A Celebration is a tribute to over a century of world-class film and TV, and provides an intriguing insight into the past glories and hurdles of Elstree Studios and looks forward to an exciting future.