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Dudley Moore: The Authorized Biography (Paperback)

by Barbra Paskin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 470 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (6 Mar 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330353225
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330353229
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 583,923 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Written with Dudley Moore's full co-operation, this illustrated biography examines every side of this complex man. Proving that there is more to Moore than the diminutive sex Symbol of "10" and the charming clown of "Arthur", Paskin explores Moore's personality and paradoxes with intelligence and compassion.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It will make you laugh and break your heart at the same time, 7 May 2002
I am writing this review from the point of view of someone who loves Dudley Moore, but I think anybody would enjoy reading this book. It is so well written with care and attention to detail. It will make you laugh and break your heart at the same time.

It was written just before Dudley’s illness was diagnosed and Barbra Paskin says in her prologue “My one wish for him is that one day he will find the peace and happiness that has eluded him for most of his life, and which he so very much deserves.” Tragically the worst was yet to come. Life showed just how cruel and unfair it can be.
She also says “The life he was living with Nicole was destroying him.” I think the book inadvertently shows how his last wife, if not the cause of his illness, was very bad for his health.

But there are so many happier times to remember him by.
This book, Not Only… is an insight into the real Dudley Moore, But Also… is a comprehensive chronicle of all his work, his infectious comedy and his wonderful musical achievements. He had a touch of genius and I’ll miss him.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The way up from down -- and back again: a frank revelation, 15 Jan 2000
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Biographer Barbra Paskin's look into the life of comic actor-and serious musician-Dudley Moore bears sad testament to every allegory on record about "the tears of a (highly successful) clown." At 452 pages (hard cover edition), Ms. Paskin's chronicle is detailed, to say the least, replete with excerpts from Moore's diaries and photo collections, as well as relatively incisive commentary from some of the major women in his perennially ill-fated love life. Professional colleagues and personal friends (there seems little gap between the two) offer their recollections and insights as well, with Moore's great capacity for long-standing friendship, generosity, professionalism, and musicianship becoming eminently apparent. If Moore was dealt less than auspicious circumstances at birth (a club foot and a mother who was emotionally remote), he received almost miraculous compensation in adulthood in a career which seemed to take flight of its own accord. Show business dues-paying as we know it is virtually absent from Moore's professional biography, which begins upon his graduation from Oxford in 1960 with the revue "Beyond The Fringe", and moves at a dizzyingly non-stop pace through nearly four decades of recordings (both comedy and jazz), TV series and commercials, films and documentaries, film and stage scores, the occasional co-authorship of screenplays and, more recently, a return to both the theatrical and the concert stage. Many an artist would kill for such a densely-packed engagement calendar. Yet satisfaction with this success seems increasingly to elude Moore, whose haunting, ever-present inner turmoil about hearth-and-home-and-mother-and the lack of same, in meaningful terms-continues its steady erosion of his thoughts, his private life and, eventually, of his career itself. For all of his high-profile rise to, and fall from, the good graces of the entertainment industry-appalling character and judgment flaws within his romantic relationships notwithstanding-Dudley Moore emerges here as a likeable, troubled, moody man of great intelligence, talent, aspiration, and sensitivity who, as the years progressed, made increasingly bad choices, both professionally as well as personally. Paskin writes: "It has been Dudley's burden in life that he has never known in which direction to travel, save that he has never really wanted to follow only one path..." And there, but for the grace of God, go all of us. It's heartening to know we're not pioneers on the oft-troubled and fragmented travels of the human heart and psyche from one end of life to the other. In this book we find that, true to yet another allegory, Mr. Moore is to a great extent EveryMan-and disarmingly willing to own up to the fact. He's a lot like many of us, only more so (no pun intended).
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5.0 out of 5 stars The life of Cuddly Dudley, 28 Oct 2009
By Mungo (Surrey) - See all my reviews
This is an excellent account of Dudley's life. I read it immediately before reading Rena Fruchter's book about Dudley's last years (an equally good book). Barbara's book ends where Rena's book begins and so reading the two together gives you a complete account of Dudley's life and death. Before I started to read all I knew about Dudley were the general widely known facts - brilliant comedian and brilliant pianist, lots of hangups, very sexy. I am glad to have learnt more about someone who appears to have been basically a very nice man. Dudley was fortunate to have had two such good, platonic women friends who have written such moving accounts of his life and death.
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