Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett

Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett

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.

'[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

Rupert Everett has acted in films including 'My Best Friend's Wedding', 'The Madness of King George' and 'Shakespeare in Love'.

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ISBN 13	9780349120188
ISBN 10	0349120188
Title	Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
Author	Rupert Everett
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2007-02-01
Number of pages	416
Prizes	Short-listed for PEN/Ackerley Prize 2007
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