Who on Earth is Tom Baker? - Rilegato

Baker, Tom

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ISBN 10: 0002558343 ISBN 13: 9780002558341

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1997

Riassunto

The hilarious, rumbustious and gloriously indiscreet autobiography of the most famous and best-loved Doctor Who

Tom Baker’s autobiography covers his childhood in the poor spirited Irish community in Liverpool, during which he developed a penchant for lying, a passion for football and a suspicion of priests; his six years as a monk – in which he spent much time trying to avoid eye contact with others; his struggling times as an out-of-work actor and; on to appearances alongside Olivier at the National Theatre, to work with Pasolino and, finally, his time as the ultimate Doctor Who.

Far exceeding the usual expectations of an actorly autobiography, Who on Earth Is Tom Baker? is a blackly comic scream. Baker is the kind of man who could drink the old off-the-wagon Anthony Hopkins under the table. He is a natural writer of Rabbelasian, or at least Spike Milligan, proportions and is, of course, one of the most familiar faces in the British acting world.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Tom Baker was born in Liverpool in 1934. He became an actor and is most well-known, in seventy-four countries, for his portrayal of Doctor Who.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Growing up in a poor, spirited Irish community in Liverpool in the 1930's, Tom Baker had modest ambitions: to be an orphan, to have a wooden leg, to be a sinner. Instead he became a monk, coveting smells and staring at other men's clogs. No longer 'randy for martyrdom', Baker left the monastery for National Service and then became a struggling actor. He learned to drink Anthony Hopkins under the table and to take the oddest jobs, while also managing to land parts alongside Olivier in the National Theatre and work with Pasolini. He finally gave up his stint as a builder's labourer to become the ultimate Doctor Who.

'Who on Earth Is Tom Baker?' is a richly coloured, startlingly wild autobiography that reads like a black comedy. Full of anarchic humour, surreal, ribald and revealing anecdotes, it can be favourably compared with the stories of Spike Milligan, Peter Ustinov and David Niven.

' All my life I had been taught nonsense by priests and teachers...it was no problem for me to say I came from another world and could go back and forth in time.'

"This is a man worth listening to. Whether he is scandalising a waitress, reducing a photographer to helpless laughter or making serious points about the staging of Jacobean drama, he can deliver the unexpected faster than a Hitchcock rewrite of the Alamo."
GILLIAN GLOVER, ' Scotsman '

"An hilarious and unusual autobiography for an actor. There is none of the self – serving trail through evolutionary progress to greatness; the famous names don't hit the page with the thud of concrete but with the lightness of a feather".
PENNY FOX ,' The Glasgow Herald '

Su questa edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0002558343
• ISBN 13: 9780002558341
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288