Funny, Peculiar: The True Story of Benny Hill - Brossura

Lewisohn, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330393405 ISBN 13: 9780330393409

Casa editrice: Pan Books Ltd, 2003

Riassunto

Benny Hill's saucy smirks at underdressed women are relished the world over. Yet the comedian cut an unlikely figure of global admiration: unmarried and emotionally enfeebled in his few relationships, he was a deeply private individual uninterested in the trappings of success, a frugal man content to live in his humble childhood home flooded, freezing and burgled while his building society account bulged with millions of pounds he didn't use and hadn't wanted to earn. FUNNY PECULIAR is the first objective and full account of Benny Hill's life and work. Tenaciously researched and yet sensitively reported, it charts the highs, lows and many paradoxes of a man whose professional strengths - observation, impression and mime - bought him unimagined success, and whose weakness, especially an inability to change, fashioned his ultimate downfall. 'Riveting and unexpectedly sympathetic' Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A revelation . . . entertaining and exhaustively researched' Kathryn Flett, OBSERVER

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

The definitive biography of the international TV comedy icon.

L'autore:

Mark Lewisohn is a leading TV and radio historian and author of the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy. He is also the world's foremost authority on the Beatles, having written the two bestsellers The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions and The Complete Beatles Chronicle, and has been extensively involved in a number of projects for them. An accomplished researcher, widely published writer, consultant, archivist and broadcaster, he lives with his wife and children in Herefordshire.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pan Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0330393405
• ISBN 13: 9780330393409
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528