- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Century; First Edition First Printing edition (1 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0712669922
- ISBN-13: 978-0712669924
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 431,622 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The hilarious memoirs of a Likely Lad and one of the most distinctive voices in showbusiness One of the most distinctive voices in showbusiness is here captured on the page for the first time. By turns funny, charming and sad this is the story of a sensitive and sickly lad's northern working-class childhood, of a loving mother who kept him off school because of his asthma, of how he washed up in hotels by night to fund studying at RADA by day and would often be found asleep in class, of laddish behaviour in swinging London, how he climbed Big Ben to hang a pair of knickers on the hand of the clock, his troubled relationship with Likely Lads co-star James Bolam and many celebrity stories, featuring Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Rod Steiger, Jimmy Nail and Mel Smith. This is a life packed with incident.
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The hilarious memoirs of a Likely Lads and one of the most distinctive voices in showbusiness
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
You will "Likely" be disappointed,
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This review is from: A Likely Story: The Autobiography of Rodney Bewes (Hardcover)
I was looking forward to reading this autobiography of Rodney Bewes only to be really disappointed, as Rodney comes across in the book as self centered and self important. This in its self would not be a reason to dislike the book but the fact that it is poorly written with little substance. Lots of words but no substance. Everything appears to be someone elses fault, Rodney Bewes hardly take responsibility for anything unless it is a sucess. If the desciption of the split between the two "Likely Lads" is correct then I cannot blame James Bolam. Rodney could not even take the time to go to his mothers funeral, his reason are shallow at the very least. I think there is one photograph in the book which sums up Rodney Bewes, it is the photograph of him, his wife, new triplets and their daughter. Mr. Bewes wife and two nurses (each holding a new baby) and their daughter are all standing, surrounding a seated Rodney Bewes. I think if my wife had given birth to triplets she would have been the one sitting down.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A curious read,
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This review is from: A Likely Story: The Autobiography of Rodney Bewes (Hardcover)
This is a slightly strange autobiography. It is very short on detail and long on short sentences. Bewes, who comes across as a nice fellow, also comes across a bland one, with virtually nothing in the way of opinion. At times it is absolutely maddening when he makes a comment of some significance then fails to expand upon it. This is the case when he makes the two most interesting confessions of the book, that of his shattered relationship with James Bolam and when he missed his mother's funeral. Sometimes you feel he's barely human but this is perhaps more down to the lack of effort taken in writing the book. Bewes gives the appearance of a man who has not exactly triumphed in life - his main success, The Likely Lads, takes up a good chunk of the book. In fact, many pages are lazy reproductions of Clement and Le Frenais scripts. By the 1990s we find Bewes still harping on about it, praying for repeats on television to bring cash in. Very different to Bolam. So this book is, in its way, fascinating, but it's just far too lightweight. You don't really learn any life lessons from it, which you surely should when reading an autobiography.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A Waste Of Paper.,
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This review is from: A Likely Story: The Autobiography of Rodney Bewes (Hardcover)
In a recent newspaper interview with Bewes I read that the original book was several times bigger than this and the publishers had cut it down, thank goodness! The book is dis-jointed, scripts are re-produced which you can at least skip past. There is no depth or substance to the book and a times you feel you are reading the ramblings of a mad man, it is that bad in places. I had always felt sorry for Bewes due to the lack of Likely Lads repeats and his traetment from the equally arrogant James Bolan. I now see Bewes for the selfish ( yes he didn't attend his mothers funeral due it being very windy ), somewhat arrogant man, with limited acting talent that he is. Probably the worst £1 I have ever spent in a charity shop but at least I now have the true picture of the man, very different from the hard done by out of work actor I once used to sympathise for.
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