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Roger Lewis
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Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
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1994
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Seasonal Suicide Notes
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2009
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Charles Hawtrey 1914–1988: The Man Who Was Private Widdle
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2001
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Anthony Burgess
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2002
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What Am I Still Doing Here?
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2011
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The Real Life of Laurence Olivier
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1996
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Hannah - Handmaid of the Highest
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How to Write Essays
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1992
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Stage People
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“Peter feasts off people-he finds himself so totally boring that he's got to escape from himself and find refuge and security in another personality-that's the only form of communication left open to him.”
― The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
― The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
“His past, again like Dali’s, had to be mythologised. For, let’s face it, his lower-middle-class upbringing was not exactly Angela’s Ashes,”
― Anthony Burgess: A Biography
― Anthony Burgess: A Biography
“I am perhaps less interested in Burton and Taylor historically and biographically, than in isolating them culturally, as carnal and fantasy figures who floated about in a world of child stars, faded grandeur, alcoholism, promiscuity and Lassie. If they remain significant, desirable, it is because what I watch and absorb in the end isn't a performance but a personality, a presence. Taylor is subtle and soft, with her perfumes and firs - yet there is something demonic and lethal about her. Burton, in his turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looks as if he is lit by silver moonlight, when perhaps he'd turn into a wolf. His films have the atmosphere of intense dreams - dreams filled with guilt and morbidity.”
― Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
― Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
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