The unlikely and very funny tale of a world-famous Shakespearian actor making an action movie in today's go-go capitalist Russia He was the raging, youthful Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's classic Romeo 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 ...
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The unlikely and very funny tale of a world-famous Shakespearian actor making an action movie in today's go-go capitalist Russia He was the raging, youthful Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's classic Romeo 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 called Moscow Heat. With a self-deprecating wit, 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.
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Add this copy of Are My Blinkers Showing? : Adventures in Filmmaking in to cart. $5.50, good condition, Sold by Montclair Book Center rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Montclair, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Da Capo Press.
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Very good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket + date and initial on end paper-Rare and Collectable-will send out 1st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. 5th or later Printing. The book is inscribed by Michael York on the half title page. The inscription reads "For Bob Best Wishes Michael York"
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INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MICHAEL YORK." FOR MARY WITH HAPPY MEMORIES OF OUR ZURICH ENCOUNTER AND WITH VERY BEST WISHES" MICHAEL YORK. The fine actor tells of his adventures in Russia while making a movie there. Illustrated with a few in text photos. Very faint line dent on the front endsheet which is very lightly mirrored to a few pages. Near Fine/fine.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's red and blue boards, lettered silver at the spine. Signed by the author on the title page (label on the front cover reads: signed by author at Waterstones). ISBN: 0306814447 Pages: 174 Fine in fine dust jacket.
