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Download or read book More Please written by Barry Humphries and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications, the true details of his life are among the best-kept secrets of our time. More Please, prophetically his first utterance, reveals the man behind the actor. This best-selling book moves from suburban Australia of the 1930s, 40s and 50s to Humphries' international stardom, and his revelations and confessions will astonish his vast audience, being so wildly at odds with all that has gone before.
Download or read book Bizarre written by and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1965 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women in the Background by : Barry Humphries
Download or read book Women in the Background written by Barry Humphries and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life can't get much better for Derek Pettyfer. He's rich, famous and between wives.He's risen above his unexceptional origins in Australia to become the toast of the London stage and a top-rating television performer. With his elegant house and enviable collection of Roman glass, Derek Pettyfer is at the pinnacle of success.Next the fall.Slowly at first, then with frightening speed, Derek Pettyfer's frayed life unravels, helped by sadistic dentists, fetishistic secretaries and the ugly-spirited beautiful people who infest great cities.Barry Humphries' comic novel is about a life in a goldfish bowl, in which the goldfish happen to be piranhas.
Download or read book My Life as Me written by Barry Humphries and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better known as the performer Dame Edna Everage, Barry Humphries here offers more anecdotes from his life. The book reveals a selfish streak, a tendency to "bibilomania" and what is, perhaps, his true vocation: writing.
Download or read book One Man Show written by Anne Pender and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling, incisive and thorougly entertaining biography of comic genius Barry Humphries Barry Humphries is perhaps the greatest comic genius of our age. Satirist, comedian and burlesque entertainer, he enthrals audiences across the globe. As housewife megastar Edna Everage, he savages-and enchants-all in his path. His shambolic diplomat, Les Patterson, shocks and titillates, while Sandy Stone, poignant chronicler of suburbia, can bring audiences to tears. Yet Humphries, the man, remains an enigma. In his fifty years performing, he has avoided scrutiny of his true self-and the influences that help shape his characters. ONE MAN SHOW examines the life, and the aspirations, of this enormously talented artist. From his youthful pranks on the staid streets of Melbourne, the phenomenon that was Barry Mackenzie, and the dark years of alcoholism, through to his successes on television and Broadway, this finely drawn portrait reveals the truth of Humphries' world. It is the definitive story of a mysterious individual and his theatrical magic.
Download or read book Barry Humphries written by Ken Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Death of Sandy Stone by : Barry Humphries
Download or read book The Life and Death of Sandy Stone written by Barry Humphries and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old digger, Sandy Stone, is one of Barry Humphries' enduring but least obtrusive characters. This collection of Sandy's monologues also contains humourous footnotes, appendices, marginalia and cross references to assist interpretation.
Download or read book Humphrey's Corner written by Sally Hunter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little elephant tries out different spots around the house, until he finds the perfect place to play--near his mother.
Book Synopsis Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization by : John Lahr
Download or read book Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization written by John Lahr and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's account of a great clown and a great act, this book goes backstage at London's Theatre Royal, with Barry Humphries, and into the weird and wonderful world of his show-stopping creation, Dame Edna Everage. 8 photos.
Download or read book Something Like Fire written by Lin Cook and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and entertaining portrait of one of comedy's greatest geniuses by those who knew Peter Cook best and can write abut his rare talent. The contributors include Clive Anderson, Alan Bennett, John Cleese, Stephen Fry, William Goldman, Barry Humphries, Eric Idle, Dudley Moore and Michael Palin.
Book Synopsis A Portrait of the Artist as Australian by : Paul Matthew St Pierre
Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist as Australian written by Paul Matthew St Pierre and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Portrait of the Artist as Australian offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career - as a daring postmodern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television, with sixty-seven stage shows, twenty-four film and thirty-four video appearances, thirty-four television series and seventy-one television appearances, and seventy-two audio recordings, but especially what he calls his "second career" as author of twenty-nine books. With an oeuvre that includes novels, biographies, autobiographies, editions, compilations, comic books, poetry, dramatic monologues, sketches, film scripts, and several unclassified works, Humphries is a literary and dramatic artist of considerable significance. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, Paul Matthew St Pierre reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in music halls, Dadaism, and his identity as an Australian.
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Download or read book David Hockney: 82 Portraits and One Still-life written by and published by Royal Academy Books. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'David Hockney RA: 82 portraits and 1 still-life', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2 July-2 October 2016"--Title page verso.
Book Synopsis Housewife Superstar! by : Danielle Wood
Download or read book Housewife Superstar! written by Danielle Wood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life, advice, and many marriages of a ninety-something Tasmanian domestic goddess, the real-life humor inspiration for television's Dame Edna Marjorie Bligh is the ninety-five-year-old Martha Stewart you didn't know you were missing. Does your goldfish have constipation? Feed it Epsom salts. Have you run out of blush? Cut a beet in half and slap it on your cheeks. Are there possums in your ceiling? Housewife Superstar will tell you how to get them out. Famous for never wasting a thing, Marjorie crochets her bedspreads from plastic bags and used panty hose, and protects the plants in her garden with bras. In 1958, upon entering the food and craft contests at her town show, she won in seventy-eight categories; the next year she won in seventy-two but was denied the trophy by jealous rivals. Once divorced and twice widowed, Marjorie is, according to her colossal fan Barry Humphries (of TV comedy Dame Edna fame), "no slouch in the matrimonial department." Her first husband, Cliff, was loving but turned brutal. Her second marriage, to preacher and schoolteacher Adrian, was punctuated by endless love notes, breakfasts in bed, and territorial fights with his adult daughters. She snagged her third husband, Eric—a bus driver—with promises of fruitcake and flirtatious glances in his rearview mirror. Marjorie designed two homes and a museum devoted to her creations, worked for half a century as a journalist and columnist, and raised two sons, all while building a devoted following. Danielle Wood's Housewife Superstar is an illuminating look at a treasure.
Download or read book Margaret Olley written by Meg Stewart and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With new chapters taking in the last few years of Margaret Olley's life, her state funeral and the enormous legacy she has left behind. 'A great painter, a great woman, a great story' Barry Humphries Margaret Olley is arguably Australia's most loved artist. She was also one of the country's most generous benefactors to public art galleries. This intimate biography begins in the 1920s in the green, tropical wet of Tully, North Queensland, where Margaret's early childhood was spent on a cane farm and dairy. The story unfolds to tell of her life-long love affair with painting. At boarding school at Somerville House, Brisbane, Margaret found a mentor in art teacher Caroline Barker, and she went on to blossom as an art student at East Sydney Technical College. The book includes intriguing revelations about her friendships with well-known figures such as Donald Friend, William Dobell and Russell Drysdale, and the success of her first one-person show in Sydney at the age of twenty-five. Bohemian adventures in Europe with fellow Australian artists, including David Strachan, were to follow. She travelled - sketchbook in hand - around England, France, Italy and Spain; met Alice B. Toklas in Paris; and lived on a vineyard at Cassis in the South of France. Her story continued back in Australia where in the late 1950s in Brisbane Margaret struggled with alcoholism and was eventually forced to face up to drying out or drying up creatively. Once she'd given up her comforting nips, her return to life and painting was joyous. Far From A Still Life details her bout of personal darkness - her 'black hole' when not only did she want to give up painting but also living - and the freedom of a walking frame. Margaret got through those difficult times and continued with her preoccupations of producing art; providing more donations to our galleries; and entertaining the odd celebrity, like Barry Humphries or Maggie Smith, in her notoriously cluttered Paddington terrace. With new material detailing her final travels around regional galleries donating her work and buying that of others and her feverish work painting right up until the day of her death, this is a rich and comprehensive look at eighty-odd years of Margaret Olley, her lovers and friends, and, of course, her painting.
Book Synopsis The Complete Barry McKenzie by : Barry Humphries
Download or read book The Complete Barry McKenzie written by Barry Humphries and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Gorgeous Life written by Edna Everage and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dame Edna Everage, housewife and megastar, not to mention investigative journalist, social anthropologist, swami and chanteuse, describes her life and times, from her humble beginnings in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds to her marriage to Lord Norm Everage in 1946 and her subsequent rise to megastardom. More than a show-biz autobiography, more than a housewife's diary, more than a chunk of history - this is a Hymn to Life.
Book Synopsis The Amazing Mrs Shufflewick by : Patrick Newley
Download or read book The Amazing Mrs Shufflewick written by Patrick Newley and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In real life, Mrs Shufflewick was the glorious creation of Rex Jameson, a music hall great and one of radio and TV's most original and brilliant comics. Shy, difficult, bisexual and alcoholic, his private and public life often reached spectacular highs and appalling lows. In this candid and incisive biography, Patrick Newley, who managed Jameson's later career, examines the life of the man who was lionised by comedians such as Bob Monkhouse, Barry Cryer, Danny La Rue and Barry Humphries. 'Rex was a comic genius, ' said Roy Hudd. 'Even in his cups he was gloriously funny.' The Amazing Mrs Shufflewick pays tribute to Jameson's talent
