Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins
The Autobiography
$42.89
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2007
Summary
An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in ‘Another Country’. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wall came down; and in downtown Manhattan on September 11th.
By the age of 17 he was friends with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and since then he has been up close and personal with s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349120584 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349120587 |
| Author: | Rupert Everett |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Abacus |
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You don’t need to be a soothsayer to know that, amidst the volcanic spew of fourth-rate celebrity memoirs launched this autumn, only one will be worth the paper it’s printed on. I was salivating over my toast and marmalade at last week’s serialisation of Rupert Everett’s exemplary stab at the genre, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - Rowan Pelling, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Hilariously honest… a kind of rake’s progress. The accounts of filming with stars such as Madonna, Sharon Stone and Julia Roberts are as good as Evelyn Waugh. The earlier scenes from childhood to unruly adolescence, to drama school and a belle epoque - DAILY MAILThe most keenly awaited celebrity autobiography is Rupert Everett’s RED CARPETS AND OTHER BANANA SKINS, an urbane charmer in the manner David Niven’s THE MOON’S A BALLOON - John O’Connell’s, TIME OUTLush, profoundly reflective, and thoroughly satisfying autobiography … Definitely several cuts above the conventional showbusiness memoir, laced with quirky insights and dazzling phrases it reads like a lurid dream, recalled in deliciously acute deta - ‘You’ll enjoy the hectic energy of Everett’s engagement with the beautiful and the damned … it’s impossible to begrudge Rupert his repetitive ecstAbout The Author
Rupert Everett
Rupert Everett is one of the UK’s leading actors and has starred in films including ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’, ‘The Madness of King George’ and ‘Another Country’.
Author Location: Middlesex, UK.
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