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Tony Hancock: The Definitive Biography电子书

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作       者:John Fisher

出  版  社:Harper

出版时间:2008-12-22

字       数:111.2万

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Regarded as the best radio and TV comic of his era, Tony Hancock was a man whose star burned brightly in the eyes and ears of millions before his untimely death in 1968. Now, forty years on, critically acclaimed biographer John Fisher brings the first fully authorised account of his life. Tony Hancock was one of post-war Britain’s most popular comedians – his radio show ‘Hancock’s Half Hour’ would clear the streets as whole families tuned in to listen. His peerless timing and subtle changes in intonation marked Hancock out as a comic genius. His character ‘Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock’ was an amplification of his own persona, a pompous prat whose dreams of success are constantly thwarted. The original British loser that we recognise in Victor Meldrew and Alan Partridge. Wonderfully supported by a cast including Sid James, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams, and working with *s from Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Hancock became a huge star. The show was commisioned for TV, showcasing his talent for hilarious facial expression, and he became the first British comedian to earn a thousand pounds a week. Behind Tony Hancock’s success however hid the self-destructive behaviour that plagued him all his life. Prone to self-doubt, and wanting to be the star of his own show, he got rid of James, and finally dismissed Galton and Simpson who had created the platform for his success. His private life was wracked by his ever increasing alcoholism and bouts of depression, and his relationships shattered by his capacity for violence. His ratings fell and, feeling washed up and alone after divorcing his second wife, he committed suicide in an Australian hotel room in 1968. Now, forty years after his death John Fisher explores the turbulent life of a man regarded by his peers as one of the greatest British comics to have ever lived.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface: ‘Remembered Laughter’

Chapter One: The Image of Hancock

Chapter Two: ‘You’ll Go Far, My Son’

Chapter Three: ‘Remember Gibraltar?’

Chapter Four: ‘It’s Not Easy, Is It?’

Chapter Five: Radio Waves

Chapter Six: Hancock’s Radio Half Hour

Chapter Seven: ‘Going Through the Card’

Chapter Eight: Hancock’s Television Half Hour

Chapter Nine: Face to Face and About-Face

Chapter Ten: ‘And Then There Were Three …’

Chapter Eleven: Matters of Loyalty

Chapter Twelve: ‘Thumbs Down and into the Crocodile Pit’

Chapter Thirteen: ‘The Limbo is Calling …’

Chapter Fourteen: ‘… Your Star will be Falling’

Chapter Fifteen: ‘Too Many Times’

Chapter Sixteen: ‘What was he Really Like?’

Epilogue: ‘Funny and Sad’

Index

Acknowledgements

By the same author

Praise

Copyright

About the Publisher

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