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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

Rupert Everett

Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

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ISBN:
9780316732222
ISBN-10:
0-316-73222-2

Little, Brown

A Little, Brown title

An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in 'Another Country'. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wall came down; and in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the age of 17 he was friends with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and since then he has been up close and personal with some of the most famous women in the world: Julia Roberts, Madonna, Sharon Stone and Donatella Versace.

Whether sweeping the floor for the Royal Shakespeare Company or co-starring with Faye Dunaway and an orang-utan in 'Dunstan Checks In' (they both took ages to get ready), Rupert Everett always brings as much energy and talent to his life as he does to his career. His memoir swoops from the eccentricities of the British upper classes to the madness of Hollywood, from the Russian steppes to an Easter egg hunt in Elizabeth Taylor’s garden.

Reviews

  • ‘[A] lush, profoundly reflective, and thoroughly satisfying autobiography... Everett has written a splendid book, a monument to a series of demi-mondes and fleeting bittersweet moments. Definitely several cuts above the conventional showbusiness memoir, laced with quirky insights... it reads like a lurid dream, recalled in deliciously acute detail - in short a heady triumph of observation and reverie’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Hardback: £18.99

Published 18/09/2006

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