This fall, British comedy star Dame Edna Everage begins her conquest of America with an NBC-TV special and more. In My Gorgeous Life (already an international bestseller), she tells her own crazy, campy, hilarious story.
The details of Barry Humphries's life are still amongst the best-kept secrets of our time. Recent works have shed little light on this most private and circumspect of artistes; moreover, he has deliberately furnished his biographers with half-truths and fiction. So here is Barry Humphries's own account of his life up to the present. With an ...
This is the first of two volumes of Barry Humphries' autobiography. It reveals for the first time much about a man who has kept his private life private and who remains overshadowed by, among others, his most monstrous creation, Dame Edna Everage.
"Barry, you used to be so nice", Louisa Humphries frequently said to her son. Now, in his maturity, the Australian comedian reflects on his long journey away from niceness. Described by Barry as a "cubist self-portrait", "My Life As Me" revisits his childhood, his love-hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and stage. He ...
Described by Barry Humphries as a "cubist self-portrait", this autobiography revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this memoir, his various fascinations are explored: painting, travel, marriage and divorce, and his friendships with comedians, artists ...
This is a funny, ironic and moving compilation of the mundane ruminations of one of Barry Humphries' quieter but most acutely realized characters, Sandy Stone. The character is based on the men Barry used to see on his commuter tram in Melbourne.
Mrs Petty is a famous housewife with a successful TV show. She is also Derek Pettyfer, 50-ish, cultured, and set in his ways. Unbeknown to him, he is being pursued by Kenneth Grocock, who is determined to dig up some dirt on his subject. It is to have cataclysmic consequences for the star.
Captain Cook 'discovered' Australia in 1770. Barry Humphries rediscovered it in the 1950s. His dazzling insights into the eccentricities of Australian behaviour have made him a household name. Here, in his brilliantly original and unique way, he uncovers Australia's popular culture. Barry Humphries is unquestionably Australia's most talented ...
Holidays at the beach, battlers in the bush, life in the suburbs - the word "fibro" evokes many images and memories for Australians; fibro is part of the Australian experience. At the peak of the 1950s housing boom, one third of new houses were owner-built and most were made of fibro. "Gay with colour...economical to build and delightful to live ...
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Barry Pearce, Margaret Olley, Barry Humphries, Jeffrey Smart, Christine France, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Brisbane Civic Art Gallery, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
In this text, Barry Humphries takes a "back to the future" look at the people, events, obsessions, fads, fashions and music that defined Australia through the 1950s to the 1980s and combined to shape the way Australia is today.
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Playing with Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island
