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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

The Autobiography

By Rupert Everett

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| Audio CD | 9781594836213

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An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he first rose to fame with his outstanding performance in Another Country. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and has witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin thContinue

An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he first rose to fame with his outstanding performance in Another Country. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and has witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wall came down; and at home in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the age of seventeen 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 stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company or costarring with Faye Dunaway and an orangutan 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. Who else has lived in Paris with Beatrice Dalle, modelled for Versace and Valentino, been possessed by the spirit of Anthony Perkins, and played bridge with Christopher Isherwood? A superb raconteur and a keen observer of human folly (especially his own), Rupert Everett turns his life into a captivating story of love, nostalgia, fame, glamour, gossip, and drama. 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, Everett reveals himself as a consummate storyteller and a charming guide to life lived in the fast lane.

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  • Have names, will drop 'em

    Red Carpets and Banana Skins by Rupert Everett Little, Brown £18.99, pp416 In one episode from Rupert Everett's memoir, the author and a friend stay up all night brainstorming. They are supposed to be coming up with ideas to fix the script to a doome ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The fun king

    Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett 416pp, Little, Brown, £18.99 The other day I bumped into Rupert Everett in the street. We had a cordial chat and promised to meet again, but we didn't. Since the heyday of our friendship we have be ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • A lovely book that Rupert Everett has written himself, not aided by a ghost writer, as most celebrities do nowadays. The writing style is masterful. Not a word is wasted and mere paragraphs make you feel you went places you've never seen before. This is truly an example of how autobiographies should ... (continue)

    A lovely book that Rupert Everett has written himself, not aided by a ghost writer, as most celebrities do nowadays. The writing style is masterful. Not a word is wasted and mere paragraphs make you feel you went places you've never seen before. This is truly an example of how autobiographies should be written.
    I enjoyed the book hugely. I would only have two criticisms, one that it was sometimes a bit repetitive, and two that I found the shifting back and forth of the time frame rather confusing. I would also say that for all the wonder and glitter that the book shows I was more interested in the loneliness of his life and his schizophrenic pull between the hedonistic pleasure seeker and the clearly very intelligent person looking for meaning in a world that seems empty.

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  • Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

    This memoir is basically a collection of loosely chronological anecdotes from Rupert Everett's life. Rupert is a wry story teller and most of his anecdotes are highly enjoyable, but the book really could have used an editor to give it some cohesion and flow (not to mention someone to correct those ... (continue)

    This memoir is basically a collection of loosely chronological anecdotes from Rupert Everett's life. Rupert is a wry story teller and most of his anecdotes are highly enjoyable, but the book really could have used an editor to give it some cohesion and flow (not to mention someone to correct those pesky little grammatical errors). I did enjoy reading it, but had no problems setting it aside either.

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  • English Books
  • Audio CD
  • Edition: Abridged
  • ISBN-10: 1594836213
  • ISBN-13: 9781594836213
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Pub date: Jan 18, 2007
  • Dimensions: 968 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and eBook
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