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 ...
Best known to his fans for the flamboyant character Dame Edna Everage, the Australian actor and comedian Barry Humphries is also a painter, composer, and critically acclaimed author. Taking outrageousness to new heights by borrowing from the British Music Hall tradition and the Dada art movement, this brilliant jester of the absurd has made ...
Dame Edna Everage, housewife and megastar, not to mention investigative journalist, social anthropologist, swami and chanteuse, describes her life and times, from her humble beginnings in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds to her marriage to Lord Norm Everage in 1946 and her subsequent rise to megastardom. More than a show-biz autobiography, ...
John Lahr is one of the most celebrated critics of the performing arts. Winner of Britain's 1992 Roger Machell Award for the best writing about public performance, "Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation" is an insider's account of a great clown and a great act. It takes us backstage at London's Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, with ...
The cross-dressing talk show host/hostess who has it all--and sometimes too much of it--presents the story of her fearless life. As Dame Edna herself puts it: "It is a show-biz autobiography, a housewife's diary, a chunk of history, a hymn to life". Whatever it is, her ever-expanding legion of fans is sure to love it.
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