The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

Stephen Fry

Language: English

Pages: 448

ISBN: 1468301489

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Stephen Fry, star of Wilde and host of QI , is firmly established as a celebrated cultural figure.

But when he arrived at Cambridge he was a convicted thief, an addict, and a failed suicide, convinced that he would be expelled. Instead, university life offered him love and the chance to entertain. He befriended bright young things like Hugh Laurie, now the star of House, and Emma Thompson. This is the hilarious and utterly compelling story of how the Stephen the world knows (or thinks it knows) took his first steps in the worlds of theater, radio, television, and film. Tales of scandal and champagne jostle with insights into hard-earned stardom. The Fry Chronicles is not afraid to confront the chasm that separates public image from private feeling, and it is marvelously rich in trademark wit and verbal brilliance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

desirable. I also believe that leopards will always be spotty, skunks smelly and Stephens idiotically wasteful and extravagant. Some things are not susceptible to change. 'You'll never have to work again,' someone said to me at a party. To me this was like being congratulated on becoming tetraplegic - 'Hurrah! You'll never have to walk again! You can stay in bed all day.' Perhaps that is why I spent money so freely, so that I always had the incentive to work. Another incentive to work was the

385-7 Mayer, Lise, 210, 214, 246 Mayhew-Archer, Paul, 331-2 Me and My Girl (stage musical): revival, 260-9, 271, 300, 325, 338, 340, 342, 374; opening in Leicester, 346, 348-9; transfers to West End, 353, 357-9; staged in Australia, 390-1; produced in New York, 409-12, 415-16, 419-22; in Los Angeles, 419; international success, 424; nominated for Tony awards, 424 Meades, Jonathan, 319-20, 324 Melbourne Arts Centre, 391 Memoirs of a Fox (revue), 176, 181 Meyer, Russ, 6 Middleditch, Penny

which I think refers to what we would now call narcolepsy) and softly gathered up her coat. By this time the whole back brasserie was watching the scene unfold and greatly enjoying the embarrassed lacunae, charged glances and menacing exchanges that one associates with the authentically Pinteresque. Antonia smiled seraphically at the Grays and went to join her husband. As she passed our table she stopped and gathered the loose wool at the shoulder of my pullover. 'Oh, what a lovely jumper,' she

'crowded profession'; are phrases that express the idea of 'just need a break' and 'not what you know, but who you know'. I am excluding, for the time being, the whole issue of fame and concentrating exclusively on those who actually care about acting in and of itself: I expect we will come to those who obsess about the ancillary 'benefits' of red-carpet recognition and celebrity magazine coverage later. The letter-writers want to know the best way to achieve a foothold in the acting profession.

every episode of the series, which was called, after much disputation, There's Nothing to Worry About. We shot it in and around Manchester, the director, Stuart Orme, using state of the art Electronic News Gathering equipment, which is to say new lightweight video cameras whose flexibility allowed the production to save money on set building, but at the price of a substandard look and soundtrack. Hugh and I managed to write a few sketches that made it through to performance, as a sop to our pride

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