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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 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.
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.
Book Synopsis A Couple of Things Before the End by : Sean O'Beirne
Download or read book A Couple of Things Before the End written by Sean O'Beirne and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of an old and a new Australia. A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild Barry Humphries. A man looks back to the 1970s and his time as a member of Australia’s least competent scout troop. In 1988, a teenage boy recalls his sexual initiation, out on the tanbark. In 2015, two sisters text in Kmart about how to manage their irascible, isolated mum. Then, in the near future, a racist demagogue addresses the press the day after his electoral triumph. As the cities heat up and lose their water, a lady from one of the ‘better suburbs’ makes every effort to get her family into an exclusive gated community. Outstandingly original, bitingly satirical and written in a remarkable range of voices, A Couple of Things Before the End is a powerful vision of where we are – and where we may be headed. ‘These voices, so superbly heard and rendered, threw me into fits of laughter and slyly broke my heart.’ —Helen Garner ‘Astonishing ... an inventive collection of missives from the end of history. Complicated and savage and difficult and funny and melancholy, it’s both harsh and a caress. How do we speak and write into a future? I think Sean O’Beirne is showing us one way of doing it.’ —Christos Tsiolkas ‘O’Beirne inflects his identifiably Australian characters with a darkly comic and empathetic voice ... altogether, this collection invokes [our] questionable past, ironic present and disturbing future.’ —Books+Publishing
Book Synopsis The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie by : Barry Humphries
Download or read book The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie written by Barry Humphries and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 100 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 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 Lush Life written by Douglas McEwan and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully bawdy and wickedly raucous "autobiography" of Tallulah Morehead, a 103-year-old movie star who was once a sex-crazed, drunken starlet, details her many escapades, rivals, sexual exploits, battles, addictions, and movie roles. Reprint.
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.
Book Synopsis A Nice Night's Entertainment by : Barry Humphries
Download or read book A Nice Night's Entertainment written by Barry Humphries and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seven Big Australians by : Anne Pender
Download or read book Seven Big Australians written by Anne Pender and published by Biography. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Pender explores the lives and creative work of seven extraordinary performers who have brought joy and hilarity to generations of Australians through their memorable characters on stage and television, and in their potent satire, musical comedy, revue, drama, stand-up acts and one-person shows. In Seven Big Australians, Pender interprets the lives of these significant comic actors, offering vivid biographical portraits of their childhood and family of origin, their struggles to enter the entertainment industry and the art they created over many decades. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted with each actor over many years, Pender documents their experiences of the hardships of breaking into the industry and the challenges of staying there, the gruelling nature of daily life as a performer, the demands of working in multiple forms, the realities of script writing under pressure and the exhilaration of performing. These actors are significant cultural figures whose lives are awe-inspiring, momentous and magical. Carol Raye, Barry Humphries, Noeline Brown, Max Gillies, John Clarke, Tony Sheldon and Denise Scott pioneered home-grown humour, transformed the image of Australia, intervened in political life, and brought Australian comedy to the world. They created iconic figures, including Mavis Bramston, Dame Edna Everage, Clarke and Dawe, Bernadette in Priscilla Queen of the Desert and mesmerising impersonations of prime ministers.
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 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 Traveller's Tool by : Les Patterson
Download or read book The Traveller's Tool written by Les Patterson and published by Bolinda Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Traveller's Tool is an up market man's man's manual which will find its place next tothe Nivea on every executive's bedside table. When Sir Les Patterson at last agreed to wet his nib and set down on paper his guide for the modern man on the move he made his intention very clear: 'I'm a man's man and I call a spade a spade, so if you're a bluenosed wowser, a raving pillow-biter or a loony old lezzo with a facelike a half- sucked mango, I'd chuck this book away now because in the pages that follow I employ the direct, no holds barred lingo of a serious Australian diplomat at the top of his profession and the height of his sexual powers.' In The Traveller's Tool Australia's most articulate high-flyer lays bare the international lifestyle as he has lived it. The book is not only packed with practical advice, but is also, in Sir Les's own words, 'as funny as buggery'.
Book Synopsis What Can be Saved from the Wreckage? by : Michael Swanwick
Download or read book What Can be Saved from the Wreckage? written by Michael Swanwick and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical monograph examining the writings of Virginia fantasistJames Branch Cabell (1879-1958), author of Jurgen.
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
