Having written acclaimed biographies of uncompromising and glittering geniuses such as Peter Sellers, Laurence Olivier, "Carry On" star Charles Hawtrey, and Anthony Burgess, of "A Clockwork Orange" fame, Roger Lewis, rotund, dark, and difficult, has at long last stumbled upon the greatest monster of all himself. As with bestselling and beloved "Seasonal Suicide Notes," in this new book Lewis has produced a funny and appalling self-portrait, crammed with his clashes and frustrations. The calamities he describes, however, such as coming a pathetic fifth in the Oxford Chair of Poetry Election...
Having written acclaimed biographies of uncompromising and glittering geniuses such as Peter Sellers, Laurence Olivier, "Carry On" star Charles Haw...
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf. Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent...
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impo...
The comic genius of English writing takes on Hollywood, delusion, celebrity and last century's ultimate glamour couple: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
The comic genius of English writing takes on Hollywood, delusion, celebrity and last century's ultimate glamour couple: Richard Burton and Elizabeth T...
