Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 The Film Years (SIGNED)
by Palin, Michael
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine, signed 1st edition, with unclipped d/j. On title page: ""To Louise - best wishes, Michael Palin""
- ISBN 10
- 0297844407
- ISBN 13
- 9780297844402
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009. 1st. hardback. Fine, signed 1st edition, with unclipped d/j. On title page: ""To Louise - best wishes, Michael Palin"". 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). 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.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC57941
- Title
- Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 The Film Years (SIGNED)
- Author
- Palin, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, signed 1st edition, with unclipped d/j. On title page: ""To Louise - best wishes, Michael Palin""
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0297844407
- ISBN 13
- 9780297844402
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 621
- Size
- 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10\"\" x
- Keywords
- 1st, signed, memoir, diaries, Palin, comedy
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 1.05 g
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