The Real Stanley Baxter

Author : Brian Beacom
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910022209
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Stanley Baxter written by Brian Beacom and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Baxter delighted over 20 million viewers at a time with his television specials. His pantos became legendary. His divas and dames were so good they were beyond description. Baxter was a most brilliant cowboy Coward, a smouldering Dietrich. He found immense laughs as Formby and Liberace. And his sex-starved Tarzan swung in a way Hollywood could never have imagined. But who is the real Stanley Baxter? The comedy actor's talents are matched only by his past reluctance to colour in the detail of his own character. Now, the man behind the mischievous grin, the twinkling eyes and the once-Brylcreemed coiffure is revealed. In a tale of triumphs and tragedies, of giant laughs and great falls from grace, we discover that while the enigmatic entertainer could play host to hundreds of different voices, the role he found most difficult to play was that of Stanley Baxter.

Author : Brian Beacom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910022054
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stanley written by Brian Beacom and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would Britain's most successful entertainer turn down the chance to capture America? What could pressure an actor with a five-picture deal to consider taking his own life? How could a brilliant comedy actor and impressionist make millions of people roar with laughter over four decades - in theatre, television and film - yet find personal happiness elusive? The real Stanley Baxter is now revealed...

Author : Stanley Baxter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845963903
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stanley Baxter Real Life Story written by Stanley Baxter and published by . This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley Baxter
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781841582467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baxter's Bedside Book of Glasgow Humour written by Stanley Baxter and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Baxter looks back to the great days of Glasgow comedy. In a series of brilliantly funny sketches and anecdotes, he introduces a cast of typical Glasgow characters: the ladies of Bearsden, the Glasgow Italians, Gloria and Clara the waitresses, and Tattie Bacchante, amongst many others. He also explores Glasgow's unique class divisions; the glottal stops, the uvular 'r', the mysteries of Bachles, Nyaffs and Dreeps and those special Glasgow appurtenances of wigs, wallies and wellies. The result is a unique introduction to the people and language of this vibrant and colorful city.

Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345457846
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution written by Stephen Baxter and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Magisterial and uplifting . . . A brilliant, grandscale sampling of sixty-five million years of human evolution . . . It shows the sweep and grandeur of life in its unrelenting course.” —The Denver Post Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of evolution in all its awesome majesty and rigorous beauty. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, there lived a small mammal, a proto-primate of the species Purgatorius. From this humble beginning, Baxter traces the human lineage forward through time. The adventure that unfolds is a gripping odyssey governed by chance and competition, a perilous journey to an uncertain destination along a route beset by sudden and catastrophic upheavals. It is a route that ends, for most species, in stagnation or extinction. Why should humanity escape this fate? Praise for Evolution “Spectacular.”—The New York Times Book Review “Strong imagination, a capacity for awe, and the ability to think rigorously about vast and final things abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. . . . [Evolution] leaves the reader with a haunting portrayal of the distant future.”—Times Literary Supplement “A breath of fresh air . . . The miracle of Evolution is that it makes the triumph of life, which is its story, sound like the real story.”—The Washington Post Book World

Author : John Baxter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312317263
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pound of Paper written by John Baxter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2002.

Author : John Baxter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780006384458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stanley Kubrick written by John Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full, unauthorised account of one of the most original film-makers of the post war years. Kubrick was one of the few directors during the 1950s to achieve the dignity and stature of the European cinema in an American film. Originally published in 1997.

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 140003440X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul Thief written by Charles Baxter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary novel of mischief and menace, we see a young man's very self vanishing before his eyes—from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) "Entirely original.... So craftily construcyed that to appreciate how liberally Baxter plants creepy hints of what's to come a reader should really savor this book twice." —The Washington Post As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There's Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if not wholly unavailable. But Jerome Coolberg is the most mysterious and compelling. Not only cryptic about himself, he seems also to have appropriated parts of Nathaniel's past that Nathaniel cannot remember having told him about.

Author : Brian Beacom
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444754521
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Mrs. Brown written by Brian Beacom and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who'd have thought a potty-mouthed Dublin mammy with a cream cardigan and elasticated tan tights could storm British TV screens and leave a nation helpless with laughter? Brendan O'Carroll performs to tens of thousands of people a night in packed-out stadiums across the country. In the last four years his TV show has become a number 1 ratings success and he's even making a movie. But Brendan has had to battle hard for success. The youngest of eleven children, his mother was Maureen O'Carroll, a former nun who went on to become the first woman to be elected to the Irish parliament. Brendan adored his strong, widowed mother - and she later became the inspiration for his indomitable character Agnes Brown. However, the family endured poverty reminiscent of Angela's Ashes and Brendan saw no option but to leave school at 12 to work. He married young and for decades struggled to make ends meet. Eventually, bankrupt and desperate, Brendan went to see a fortune teller who told him she could see his future achieving worldwide success as a comedian and actor. At first Brendan laughed at the notion, but then he thought of how much his friends loved his gags, and decided to give it a go... This is the magical story of how a loveable Irishman with a wig and a wit as caustic as battery acid surprised everyone - most of all himself - by becoming one of the best-loved comedians in the world. It is a story of hardship, heartbreak, and talent and will remind readers afresh that sometimes the facts can be even more extraordinary than the fiction.

Author : John Baxter
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786705061
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buñuel written by John Baxter and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the controversial Spanish director most famous for "Un Chien Andalou," "Belle de Jour," and "The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie"