Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

by RupertEverett (Author)

Synopsis

An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in 'Another Country'. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wall came down; and in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the age of 17 he was friends with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and since then he has been up close and personal with some of the most famous women in the world: Julia Roberts, Madonna, Sharon Stone and Donatella Versace. Whether sweeping the floor for the Royal Shakespeare Company or co- starring with Faye Dunaway and an orang-utan in 'Dunstan Checks In' (they both took ages to get ready), Rupert Everett always brings as much energy and talent to his life as he does to his career. His memoir swoops from the eccentricities of the British upper classes to the madness of Hollywood, from the Russian steppes to an Easter egg hunt in Elizabeth Taylor's garden.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 05 Jul 2007

ISBN 10: 0349120188
ISBN 13: 9780349120188
Prizes: Shortlisted for PEN/Ackerley Prize 2007.

Media Reviews
'[A] lush, profoundly reflective, and thoroughly satisfying autobiography ... Everett has written a splendid book, a monument to a series of demi-mondes and fleeting bittersweet moments. Definitely several cuts above the conventional showbusiness memoir, laced with quirky insights and dazzling phrases, it reads like a lurid dream, recalled in deliciously acute detail - in short a heady triumph of observation and reverie' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'You don't need to be a soothsayer to know that, amidst the volcanic spew of fourth-rate celebrity memoirs launched this autumn, only one will be worth the paper it's printed on. I was salivating over my toast and marmalade at last week's serialisation of
Author Bio
Rupert Everett has acted in films including 'My Best Friend's Wedding', 'The Madness of King George' and 'Shakespeare in Love'.