Spike Milligan: Man of Letters

ISBN-13: 9780241966921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str.

Spike Milligan

Opis

Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote and this collection features the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been seen before - from one of the greatest comics of the 20th century to some of its most famous politicians, actors, celebrities and rock stars.

Recenzje

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O autorze

A legendary and iconic figure, Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but became famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Over the course of his astonishing career, he wrote over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories. He was the creator, principal writer and performer of the infamous Goon Show, and went on to become one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992 and Knighthood in 2000. He died in 2002.