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Backing into the Spotlight - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Backing into the Spotlight - A Memoir (Paperback)
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'Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly
non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine
raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious
of modernity' Daily Mail Standing in front of a full-length mirror
in my dressing room at ITV studios, waiting to go on to the set of
Backchat, I had a brief conversation with my reflection. 'Michael,
what the f*** do you think you're doing?' Theatrical agent Michael
Whitehall spent a career pushing others into the spotlight. He had
been involved behind the scenes with the careers of many prominent
actors, including Colin Firth, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Tom Courtenay, Ian Ogilvy, Judi Dench, Edward Fox, Michael
Fassbender, Angela Thorne and Nigel Havers. But then, much to his
surprise, his son Jack becomes a successful comedian and actor and
decides that his new comedy partner should be his father. Whitehall
Snr. finds himself reluctantly appearing on stage and then
television, cast as the archetypal grumpy old man and thrust, in
his early seventies, into a whole new career in front of the
camera. Minor fame comes at a sedate pace: one of the highlights
being a record GBP300,000 win for charity with Jack on Channel 4's
The Million Pound Drop. In this enchanting memoir Whitehall looks
back on his life, from growing up in suburban London in the 1940s
and '50s with his saintly father and social climbing-mother, who
coined the phrase 'a la carte' to describe people who were posher
than she was and whose company she craved, to falling into a career
as a successful theatrical agent and producer. As he says, 'Actors
can be egotistical, greedy and vain, but they're not half as bad as
agents and producers.' Charming, gossipy and above all very funny,
Backing Into The Spotlight is no ordinary show business memoir.
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