Buy this book on-line THOMPSON**, DOUGLAS: : DUDLEY MOORE - On the CouchLONDON.LITTLE,BROWN & CO.,1996. ISBN 0316875856.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.
FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,subject colour portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean with miniscule ageing,contents bright, tight and near pristine.Clean, unblemished,publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards with black ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn,4-309pp [paginated] includes prologue,13 chapters,an epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp152/3,a postscript,filmography,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,
contents list/table,acknowledgements and 2pp blanks to rear.
To the dismay of tall men the world over,
Dudley Moore has risen to become an international film star,media magnet and Hollywood heart-throb without losing a trace of the lovable English charm that propelled him to stardom in the 1960's.
Measuring in at a romantically challenged 5'2",beautiful women have always wanted to
'care' for Dudley,and judging by the number who have fallen for - rather than over - him,he has never wanted to upset them by saying no.
Dudley's life has always been about making the very best of adversity.The son of a railwayman,he spent an isolated childhood in and out of hospital receiving treatment for a clubfoot (which has never healed) - where humour kept the bullies away and music was his salvation.Winning an organ scholarship to Oxford,the working-class lad from Dagenham unexpectedly found he could attract the university's tallest and most sophisticated girls,while his talent for jazz and acting flourished into the phenomenal worldwide success of the satirical review 'Beyond the Fringe' and his long-running,ground-breaking partnership with Peter Cook as Pete 'n' Dud and the delightfully obscene Derek & Clive.
Eschewing the drink and drugs lifestyle that had destroyed many a Hollywood career,Dudley's turbulent love life has offered ample compensation,seeing him marry four times,amicably separate three times and sleep with hundreds of women in between.Much like his middle-aged character in '10',the film that granted Dudley and co-star Bo Derek instant sex symbol status,he has a desperate need to find the perfect partner who will understand all his insecurities and quirks.In 1995 he became a father again,at
60.Is his search over at last? With an occasional Derek & Clive candidness,Dudley
Moore has laid his heart open to acclaimed
Hollywood insider Douglas Thompson as never before,revealing the angst,anxiety and restlessness beneath the diminutive exterior that we have come to know - perhapd misleadingly - as forever 'cuddly Dudley'.
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