Alec Guinness : a life /
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| Author / Creator: | O'Connor, Garry. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, c2002. |
| Description: | 516 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4781408 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Truth Is Not Privileged to Be Used All the Time
- Part 1. Incubation
- 1. The Ambush of Younger Days and Some Preliminary Confessions
- 2. The Sins of the Father
- 3. The Bewitching of Naughtiness Doth Obscure Things
- 4. The Sins of the Mother
- 5. The Dancing Star
- 6. A Gift from God
- 7. The Prince of Denmark Passes Unnoticed Through London
- 8. Plenty of Material to Embroider On
- 9. A Warbler on a Cherry Tree
- 10. Commander Cuffe and the Chintz-Covered Bunk
- 11. We May Rehearse Most Obscenely and Courageously
- 12. Queer. Well--So What!
- 13. Floodlit by Moonlight
- 14. I Live for the Day When I Can Twist Harold Hobson's Crutches 'Round His Neck
- 15. I Never Needed Privacy More
- Part 2. Illumination
- 16. The Use of the Impersonal Third Person
- 17. The Criminal Mastermind
- 18. Peering into the Darkness
- 19. Some Further Visibility of the Invisible
- 20. Lesser Expectations
- 21. A Smoothish Face Which Had No Features
- 22. The Departing Transvestite
- 23. New Outlines in the Mirror
- 24. Most of Life is Lived Below the Water's Surface
- 25. Either a Man, the Supernatural, or an Illusion
- 26. Friendships Both Jealous and Altruistic
- 27. Move Heaven and Earth to Avoid a Memorial Service
- Epilogue: Was Guinness a Great Actor?
- The Career of Alec Guinness
- Sources
- Index
