Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988: The Film Years Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988: The Film Years Book

Michael Palin's diaries of the 1980's including the filming of THE MEANING OF LIFE and A FISH CALLED WANDA.Read More

from£27.00 | RRP: £20.00
* Excludes Voucher Code Discount Also available Used from £3.67
  • Play

    The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life culminating in the smash hit A Fish Called Wanda in which he played the hapless stuttering Ken (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor) and the first of his seven celebrated television journeys for the BBC. He wrote much of the dialogue and acted in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits and acted in his next film Brazil. He co-produced wrote and played the lead in The Missionary opposite Maggie Smith who also appeared with him in A Private Function written by Alan Bennett. For television he wrote East of Ipswich inspired by his links with Suffolk. Such was his fame in the US he was enticed into once again hosting the enormously popular show Saturday Night Live in one edition of which his mother makes a highly successful surprise guest appearance. He filmed several journeys for television and became chairman of the pressure group Transport 2000. His family remains a constant as his and Helen's children enter their teens.

  • 0297844407
  • 9780297844402
  • Michael Palin
  • 17 September 2009
  • Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 680
  • First Edition
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. If you click through any of the links below and make a purchase we may earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you). Click here to learn more.

Would you like your name to appear with the review?

We will post your book review within a day or so as long as it meets our guidelines and terms and conditions. All reviews submitted become the licensed property of www.find-book.co.uk as written in our terms and conditions. None of your personal details will be passed on to any other third party.

All form fields are required.