Are My Blinkers Showing?: Adventures in Filmmaking in the New Russia
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品牌: Michael York
基本信息出版社:Da Capo Press (2005年9月27日)精装:192页正文语种:英语ISBN:0306814447条形码:9780306814440商品尺寸:21.7 x 15.3 x 1.9 cm商品重量:327 g品牌:Da Capo PressASIN:0306814447商品描述内容简介The unlikely and very funny tale of a world-famous Shakespearean actor making an action movie in today's go-go capitalist RussiaHe was the raging, youthful Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's classic filmRomeo and Juliet. He was a divinely decadent foil to Liza Minnelli's divinely decadent Sally Bowles in Bob Fosse's Oscar-winning Cabaret. And he won over an entirely new generation in the Austin Powers movies. Now Michael York is off to make the biggest independent film in Russian history-in the capitalist Wild Wild West that is today's Russia. York is co-starring alongside the 300-pound, 6-foot-6-inch Russian bodybuilder Alexander Nevsky (think Arnold Schwarzenegger) in an action film calledMoscow Heat.With a self-deprecating wit reminiscent of Charles Grodin inIt Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here, an eye trained on the imponderables of day-to-day life (especially in faraway places-what on earth did the hotel's laundry list mean by the mysterious men's garment it called "blinkers"?), and with an increasingly alarmed sense of how the new Russia, for all its capitalist trappings, is becoming ever more like the old Russia under an ever more autocratic government, Michael York has crafted a deliciously readable insider's account that transcends genre. There's much here to be found about the actor's craft, much to be found about Russia then and now-but most of all there is the singular pleasure of being in the company of a witty and delightfully articulate observer of people, places, and the remarkable adventure called moviemaking.媒体推荐"An articulate, delicious memoir." --New York Post9/19/2005
"Engaging...An interesting, enlightening memoir." --Filmbill, May 2006
"Enjoyable to read, and the subject matter is fascinating." --Entertainment Today9/16/05
"Possibly the most earnest, scandal-free celebrity memoir ever written." --Radar Online, 12/13/05
"York is an excellent observer and a great traveler." --Publishers NewsAugust, 2005
"York's authorial voice is nearly as engaging as his screen presence...An enjoyable and informative read." --CHUD.com9/7/05
"York's non-stop anecdotes and foibles are consistently entertaining. He's got a surprisingly hilarious sense of humor." --Bookgasm.com, 11/23/05
"York's writing is gentle and elegant, his observations keen and strangely selfless." --Los Angeles Times9/25/05
"[A] colorful account...This is clearly a writer who follows world events and politics...[A] highly readable book." --Glasgow Herald11/26/05
"[An] intelligent and entertaining account...The actor has a good eye for the absurd." --London Sunday Telegraph, 11/27/05
