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Barry Humphries (1934–2023)

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Werken van Barry Humphries

More Please (1992) 129 exemplaren
My Gorgeous Life: An Adventure (1989) 110 exemplaren
My Life as Me: A Memoir (2002) 106 exemplaren
Women in the background (1995) 68 exemplaren
Dame Edna's Bedside Companion (1982) 43 exemplaren
Bizarre (1965) 39 exemplaren
Less Is More Please (Penguin 60s) (1996) 33 exemplaren
The Traveller's Tool (1985) 30 exemplaren
The Life and Death of Sandy Stone (1990) 25 exemplaren
The Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 25 exemplaren
Dame Edna's Coffee Table Book (1976) 24 exemplaren
The Olivia Audio Collection (2009) — Verteller — 15 exemplaren
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie [1972 film] (2007) — Screenwriter/ Actor — 8 exemplaren
Flashbacks (1999) 8 exemplaren
Les Patterson's Australia (1978) 7 exemplaren
Bazza comes into his own (1979) 6 exemplaren
The traveller's tool 2 exemplaren
Barry Humphries' Weimar Cabaret [programme] — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Shades of sandy stone (1989) 1 exemplaar
Moonee Ponds Muse 2 1 exemplaar
Moonee Ponds Muse 1 (1999) 1 exemplaar

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Oliver!: Original 1962 Broadway Cast Recording (1963) — Performer — 14 exemplaren
Justin and the Knights of Valor [2013 film] (2014) — Voice — 9 exemplaren
Blinky Bill the Movie [2015 film] (2015) — Actor — 3 exemplaren
Les Patterson Saves the World [1987 film] — Actor — 2 exemplaren
Hotel Amour — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren

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This was a rollicking good read. Dame Edna is a powerhouse in the entertainment business. Any of her fans will certainly love this. If you can hear Dame Edna in your head, you will have a fantastic time as she narrates her life from being an obscure Australian housewife to universally loved megastar.

Reading it in 2023, some of the humor may be a bit dated, and thinking may have changed...but it's quite fun to escape into this book and just get lost in the world of Dame Edna.
 
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briandrewz | Oct 22, 2023 |
The title says it all. Everything offensive and strange; decadent, pornographic, scatalogical, surreal, dadaist, and horrorific. Freaks, psychos, and weirdos. Perfect coffee table sized book to offend everyone. I bought this remaindered when I was about 12 and have treasured it ever since. Half of it I didn't even understand then. I cannot believe they sold it to me.
 
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Gumbywan | 1 andere bespreking | Jun 24, 2022 |
program for the legendary Australian comedian/social commentator's "farewell" tour in 2012. Features numerous photographs taken over his 40+ year career of him as his many famous characters, including his trade mark persona of Dame Edna and the epitome of Australian culture, Sir Les Patterson
 
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woodlong | Aug 13, 2016 |
This is a difficult book to categorise – is it an autobiography? A memoir? Fictionalised truth? Here, Barry Humphries tells us of his discovery of Moonee Ponds (i.e. Melbourne suburbia) housewife, Edna Everage in 1950s Melbourne and how that young woman became one of the grandest dames of history. Barry lays the rumours to rest that he and Edna are one and describes his tumultuous relationship with Edna through death, alcohol, bankruptcy and gladioli.

Barry paints for us a beautiful picture of 1950s and 60s Melbourne (of which a few points are still recognisable today) and Edna’s life with an ill husband, jealous live-in Kiwi bridesmaid and children. Barry is of course nothing like the common bourgeois that Edna represents, he shudders in her attempts at class and social climbing. But which of them has the better insight into the average (or ‘everage’) Australian? Edna becomes a hit much to Barry’s dismay on the stage and screen and he reluctantly becomes her manager while trying an acting/comedy career for himself. Edna’s dreams become true beyond her wildest fantasies while Barry becomes a shadow of his former self. Eventually they will work out that they need each other (but not that greasy Les Patterson).

Humphries has written a wildly witty work of his time with Edna. I fear that Edna herself may not understand all the words he uses in various descriptions (an ebook version would be useful at times to use the inbuilt dictionary, but I’m probably showing my bourgeois side my even suggesting it). Barry paints himself as the perfect Toorak snob (upper class suburb of Melbourne) reacting to Edna’s feisty middle class suburban roots and the need to keep up and then overtake the Joneses. In some ways, she represents Australia itself.

While it’s debatable how much of the plain truth is in this book, it’s a fantastic tale and a great read for any possum, if only for the photos of Dame Edna’s outlandish outfits from the past through to today.

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53
Ook door
11
Leden
910
Populariteit
#28,190
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½ 3.7
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