Theater Biography - Producers, Directors, and Other Theater Professionals, British Authors - 20th Century - Literary Biography
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Overview
William Donaldson aims at a version of the truth in this sometimes unkind memoir in which past and present collide in a disconcerting account of his strange life. It charts the author's course from his privileged public-school education, through his production of the 1960s' satire Beyond the Fringe, an untidy lifestyle in the company of pop stars, actors, models and others - at one time he lived in a Chelsea brothel - to a sort of literary success and a drug-fuelled slide into bankruptcy and lost love. Many will know Willie Donaldson and his friends behaving badly from his column in the Independent. Here he attempts to tell the truth about his peculiar escapades over the years with a cast of friends, lovers and sundry celebrities. The book includes entertaining and sometimes uncalled-for indiscretions about, among others, the Royal Family, tarts, Australians, Peter Cook, Kenneth Tynan, Will Self, Page Three girls, former girlfriends Sarah Miles and Carly Simon, drug dealers, Frankie Fraser and other members of the criminal fraternity - even the rightful King of Spain.Book Details
Published
June 28, 1999
Publisher
Owen, Peter Limited
Pages
228
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780720610635