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Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980 To 1988 (2009)

by Michael Palin(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0297844407 (ISBN13: 9780297844402)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

series

Palin Diaries

review 1: If you read this book you will find out more about the workings of TV and film production and the problems of getting a script from page to screen than you ever wanted to know. You will encounter people so famous that it sounds like name dropping and then people you've never heard of and never will again. Which probably doesn't sound that gripping.But it is Michael Palin. All interviewers refer to his "niceness" and that really comes across but he can get a little tetchŷ which just makes him more human. Basically he is very engaging company and you carry on reading about another script, another production and then the usual family issues many of us face, and some tragic ones, we hope we don't. Throughout we have Palin's view of the world, which tries to be kind, whic... moreh tries to recognise when others are having a bad day. And which recognises his own weaknesses and the silliness of his own career in the face of rampant Thatcherism and finds way tone useful and make a difference.He is genial company so that you keep turning the pages, even though it isn't a page turner.Here's to volume 3.
review 2: I enjoyed this one even more than the first volume! Sure, we all got drawn in to read behind-the-scenes stories of Python, but these books give so much more. Social commentary, rubbing elbows with famous people, the frustrations and elation of trying to create while trying to be a responsible family man and aware citizen; and it's all accomplished with great humor. This second volume is so pleasing on so many levels, I may re-read his journals from "Around The World In 80 Days," which is where this one ends, because i just don't want to be separated from him. Good grief, I love this man. His journals justify my devotion. less

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