Cleese Encounters. The Unauthorized Biography Of Monty Python Veteran John Cleese.
Published by St. Martin's Press. 1992., 1992
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ISBN 0-312-08162-6. Hardback. First U.S. Printing. Very Good condition book with dust soiling to top edge, in a Very Good condition, price-clipped dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy.
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- Title
- Cleese Encounters. The Unauthorized Biography Of Monty Python Veteran John Cleese.
- Author
- Margolis, Jonathan
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press. 1992.
- Publication year
- 1992
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312081626
- ISBN 13
- 9780312081621
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Most of Cleese's admirers regard him as a sophisticated clown, like the repressed lawyer dangled by his legs from a window in A Fish Called Wanda - but he is a far more complex character than that. Others see him as one of the finest comedy writers ever, the creator, for example, of Basil Fawlty, the manic hotelier who thrashed his car with the bough of a tree. Still others are interested in his insightful discussions of marriage and the nature of the family. In fact, the introverted and awkwardly tall boy (six feet, four and three-quarter inches at the age of thirteen) from the dreary English village of Weston-super-Mare nearly became a lawyer, until he discovered Cambridge and the footlights at the dawn of the Swinging Sixties. Today, after masterful roles in films like Life of Brian ("miserable little film" - Malcolm Muggeridge), Clockwise, and A Fish Called Wanda (thought to be incredibly sexy in Japan), John Cleese may at last have the answer to that tormenting question from Wanda: "Do you have any idea what it's like being English?"
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Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This unauthorized biography, written by a self-described "unreconstructed admirer" of John Cleese, offers a respectful and well-researched--if not very meaty--profile of the most famous member of the Monty Python comedy ensemble. Margolis recounts Cleese's career as an erstwhile law student, revue sketch comedian, member of Monty Python, maker of best-selling industrial films, coauthor of pop psychology books, cocreator of the Fawlty Towers TV series and hit film A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and commercial spokesperson-for-hire. Cleese fans who aren't already familiar with these details will be fascinated to learn what a complex, enterprising, and generously talented individual this popular performer really is. For popular collections.
- Anne Sharp, Ypsilanti Dist. Lib., Mich.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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