Blood and Tinsel: A Memoir - Softcover

Sharman, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0522853773 ISBN 13: 9780522853773

Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

A dazzling memoir of passion and humour In Blood & Tinsel, Jim Sharman takes us on an epic personal journey from his colourful childhood in his father's boxing troupe to Tokyo, London, Berlin and Sydney via the international successes of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. Whether recounting conversations with Lou Reed, giving us the inside story about Rocky Horror or describing a fateful meeting with Patrick White, Jim Sharman casts a brilliant story of the people and events that have shaped the times. Blood & Tinsel ranges from the rough and ready world of outback Australia in the fifties, where boxers and panto dames shared the stage, to the cultural explosions in which Sharman played a part. Blood & Tinsel is a remarkable story about Australia. It is also a moving tribute to a family legendary in the entertainment stakes.

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Review:

"Jim Sharman is one of Australia's visionary greats: low-brow, high-brow, pop yet classical, fearless and fun." --Baz Luhrmann

"Blood & Tinsel is a stunning self-portrait-lyrical, wry, smart and uncompromising-of one of the most daring Australian directors. Jim has perched ringside at the carnival of his own times-and it's a hot ticket! The Sharman/Shaman/Showman firmament twinkles with galaxies as diverse as Rocky Horror, Hair, discovering Kubrick, Lou Reed, Weimar cabaret. He made Australian creativity hip and original and international when it really mattered." --Geoffrey Rush

"In "Blood and Tinsel" Sharman wonderfully evokes this world of the sideshow alley, the smell of linseed oil and farm animal shit at agricultural shows, the bluff, blokey universe of boxing with its blood, sweat and brutal urgency, all choreographed to the beating of a bass drum. --Australian Literary Review

"In Blood and Tinsel Sharman wonderfully evokes this world of the sideshow alley, the smell of linseed oil and farm animal shit at agricultural shows, the bluff, blokey universe of boxing with its blood, sweat and brutal urgency, all choreographed to the beating of a bass drum. --Australian Literary Review

Synopsis:

A memoir which takes us on an epic personal journey from the author's childhood in his father's renowned boxing troupe, via the international success of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", to Los Angeles, Tokyo and London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0522853773
• ISBN 13: 9780522853773
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416