- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Hodder; New edition edition (15 July 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340596325
- ISBN-13: 978-0340596326
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 469,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The true story of Benny Hill as told by his best friend and producer for 20 years, Dennis Kirkland. Always portrayed as a miser, sexist, recluse and even thought to be homosexual, Benny emerges as a caring and sensitive man who lived for his work, and who never recovered from being sacked by Thames Television. Kirkland tells the real reason Benny chose to live alone all his life, in a way not befitting a man who died leaving an estate of #7.5 million. He also reveals the devastating effect on Benny of being sacked by Thames Television after 30 years of total dedication to his profession, and it was Kirkland who was in the hospital room when Benny was visited by his biggest fan, Michael Jackson. Hilary Bonner is the co-author of Gordon Kaye's autobiography, "Rene and Me".
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As Network's D.V.D. releases prove, political correctness probably owes its existence to 'The Benny Hill Show'. Saucy innuendo, sexy girls, slapstick and of course that cheeky grin.
Dennis Kirkland was Benny's producer at the time of his greatest success. His book is light and informal; each chapter being divided into an aspect of Hill's life - career, money, women, his upbringing, his conquest of America and so on. Its not a 'dish-the-dirt' book and is all the better for it.
The real Hill was an enigma, even to his closest friends. Yet none of them has a bad word to say about him. The most interesting chapter is 'That Sacking' in which Kirkland lets off steam about how Thames inexplicably dispensed with the services of its biggest star. Tragically, Hill died just as he was on the verge of completing a new television deal.
Benny's early B.B.C. and A.T.V. work is glossed over, as are his film roles, because Kirkland did not know Benny in those days, sadly it prevents this from being the definitive work on the subject.
For fans of the Thames Benny Hill era, though, this book is an absolute must. It ends with one of the most unbearably poignant final pages ever.
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