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When Richard E Grant (b.1957) was cast in Withnail and I (1987), his whole world changed. In this amusing and eloquent memoir, he charts his self-doubt on the road to stardom, nights spent drinking, touring Paris's red-light district with a world-famous couple, and working with Hollywood's biggest actors and directors. First published in 1996; this Picador Classic edition includes a new postscript and an introduction by Steve Martin.
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Richard E Grant was born and brought up in Mbabane, Swaziland. He has featured in over sixty films, including Withnail and I, L.A. Story, Dracula, The Age of Innocence, The Player, Jack and Sarah, Gosford Park, Bright Young Things and Penelope, as well as numerous television shows. He is also the author of By Design: A Hollywood Novel and The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film. He lives in London with his family.
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In these dashing diaries of his recent years in the movies, Grant shares with candour his wonder at this aberrant universe and its inhabitants Sunday Times An exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making... What most of us want is gossip about starts, and this is something the book delivers in spades... Qualifies for that exclusive niche reserved for film star memoirs that are worth much more than a casual flick on the bookshop shelf Observer Lively, hilarious memoirs ... The lovably nervous, marvellously bitchy Grant is blessed with a fluent style, acid wit and the eternal Hollywood outsider's passion for name-dropping, rubber-necking and raspberry-blowing ... Grant has produced a classic Withnail himself would be proud of Vox The honesty and likeability of the man becomes addictive. It's not hard to read two hundred pages in a single sitting ... this is a fast, scenic and often bizarre tale related by a credible witness ... It's a star-packed savagely observed delight, and as a vivid psychological insight into one actor's complete experience of a film, it really does stand alone Empire Proves he can be as witty on paper as he has been on the big screen with this diary of his experiences working with everyone from Paul McGann to Steve Martin ... an enjoyable read that goes to prove there is at least one true gentleman working in Hollywood Maxim
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- Publication date2015
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