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Backing into the Spotlight: A Memoir de Michael Whitehall

Backing into the Spotlight: A Memoir

Autor Michael Whitehall
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 oct 2018

În fața unei oglinzi din studiourile ITV, Michael Whitehall își privea propria reflexie și se întreba, cu o sinceritate tăioasă, ce caută acolo. Misterul acestei biografii nu rezidă într-o viață ascunsă, ci în transformarea improbabilă a unui om care a petrecut decenii ferindu-se de scenă pentru a deveni, la peste 70 de ani, o figură centrală a divertismentului britanic. Apreciem modul în care Whitehall navighează între nostalgia Londrei postbelice și realitatea brutală a industriei teatrale, unde agenții sunt adesea mai vanitoși decât actorii pe care îi reprezintă.

Găsim în „Backing into the Spotlight” o perspectivă cinică și amuzantă asupra celebrității întârziate. Ca și Shark-Infested Waters de Michael Whitehall, această biografie transformă documentele și amintirile de culise într-o narațiune vibrantă despre supraviețuirea în showbiz. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum Him & Me, accentul cădea pe dinamica explozivă cu fiul său, Jack, aici Michael își revendică propriul parcurs. Cartea se aliniază tematic cu It's Never Too Late, demonstrând că spiritul critic și succesul nu au termen de expirare. Stilul este cel al unui povestitor rafinat, „unreconstructed”, care privește modernitatea cu o suspiciune delicioasă. Suntem de părere că această lucrare depășește formatul memoriilor clasice despre celebrități, oferind o lecție de umor sec despre cum poți ajunge sub lumina reflectoarelor aproape fără să vrei, păstrându-ți în același timp integritatea și, mai ales, sarcasmul.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472127082
ISBN-10: 1472127080
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 2x 8pp plate sections
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Constable
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Descriere

'Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious of modernity' Daily Mail

Standing in front of a full-length mirror in my dressing room at ITV studios, waiting to go on to the set of Backchat, I had a brief conversation with my reflection.

'Michael, what the f*** do you think you're doing?'

Theatrical agent Michael Whitehall spent a career pushing others into the spotlight. He had been involved behind the scenes with the careers of many prominent actors, including Colin Firth, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Courtenay, Ian Ogilvy, Judi Dench, Edward Fox, Michael Fassbender, Angela Thorne and Nigel Havers.

But then, much to his surprise, his son Jack becomes a successful comedian and actor and decides that his new comedy partner should be his father. Whitehall Snr. finds himself reluctantly appearing on stage and then television, cast as the archetypal grumpy old man and thrust, in his early seventies, into a whole new career in front of the camera. Minor fame comes at a sedate pace: one of the highlights being a record £300,000 win for charity with Jack on Channel 4's The Million Pound Drop.

In this enchanting memoir Whitehall looks back on his life, from growing up in suburban London in the 1940s and '50s with his saintly father and social climbing-mother, who coined the phrase 'à la carte' to describe people who were posher than she was and whose company she craved, to falling into a career as a successful theatrical agent and producer. As he says, 'Actors can be egotistical, greedy and vain, but they're not half as bad as agents and producers.'

Charming, gossipy and above all very funny, Backing Into The Spotlight is no ordinary show business memoir.

Recenzii

Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious of modernity
Hugely entertaining
This excellent memoir stands on its own merits, full of great stories told with Michael's dry wit
'Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious of modernity' Daily Mail

Standing in front of a full-length mirror in my dressing room at ITV studios, waiting to go on to the set of Backchat, I had a brief conversation with my reflection.

'Michael, what the fuck do you think you're doing?'

Theatrical agent Michael Whitehall spent a career pushing others into the spotlight. He had been involved behind the scenes with the careers of many prominent actors, including Colin Firth, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Courtenay, Ian Ogilvy, Judi Dench, Edward Fox, Michael Fassbender, Angela Thorne and Nigel Havers.

But then, much to his surprise, his son Jack becomes a successful comedian and actor and decides that his new comedy partner should be his father. Whitehall Snr. finds himself reluctantly appearing on stage and then television, cast as the archetypal grumpy old man and thrust, in his early seventies, into a whole new career in front of the camera.

In this enchanting memoir Whitehall looks back on his life, from growing up in suburban London in the 1940s and '50s with his saintly father and social climbing-mother, who coined the phrase 'à la carte' to describe people who were posher than she was and whose company she craved, to falling into a career as a successful theatrical agent and producer.

Charming, gossipy and above all very funny, Backing Into The Spotlight is no ordinary show business memoir.