Some Sort of a Life

ISBN-13: 9781840027808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str.

Miriam Karlin

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Miriam Karlin is that rare creature: a pillar of the British acting establishment who is at the same time a thoroughgoing maverick. Some Sort of a Life is an autobiography refreshingly free of self-justification and recrimination, and full of passion and earthy humor.Miriam Karlin is that rare creature: a pillar of the British acting establishment who is at the same time a thoroughgoing maverick. During sixty distinguished, workaholic years of acting, she has been a West End regular and RSC company actor, a pioneering performer on live television, half of a radio double-act with Peter Sellers, a stand-up comic, a scene-stealing character actor in such films as The Entertainer and A Clockwork Orange, and, of course, the truculent, whistle-blowing shop steward Paddy in the long-running TV sitcom The Rag Trade, with her catchphrase -Everybody Out - Parallel to her career as an actor are her lifelong socialist beliefs, her unerring sense of justice and her political activism.
Miriam's life also has been a long battle against addiction; to alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling, cigarettes, and dieting (she recently revealed herself in the Observer as -the world's oldest bulimic-) challenges she describes In Some Sort of a Life with great humour and irreverence.