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Title	:	Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson
Author	:	Alistair Owen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 276 pages
Published	:	October 8th 2001 by Bloomsbury UK (first published November 20th 2000)
Categories	:	Culture. Film. Biography. Cultural

Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson

Alistair Owen

Paperback | Pages: 276 pages

Rating: 4.21 | 129 Users | 17 Reviews

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From Withnail and I to Thomas Penman, the inimitable, outrageous and unforgettable writer and director in conversation...

'I've sometimes thought in the dead of night, "Look at your life, Bruce, rip out the writing, and with all these boiling frustrations and opinions what would you be?" I'd be in trouble, wouldn't I? Or I'd be in jail...'

Hard-talking, boisterous, frank and forthright, Bruce Robinson reveals to Alistair Owen the truth about his work and life in a series of exclusive interviews. Talking candidly about his entire career; his acting, writing and directing, and the many tussles he has faced with Hollywood moguls, this is Bruce Robinson as you've never seen or heard him before.

'The most purely likeable book about cinema I have ever read. Robinson talks about his profession in a way that is astonishingly clear-headed, funny and wise' David Hare, Guardian, Books of the Year

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Original Title:	Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson
ISBN:	0747552592 (ISBN13: 9780747552598)
Edition Language:	English

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An excellent book of beautifully constructed and compiled interviews with sometime actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist Bruce Robinson. It is also a very honest and revealing account of just how difficult it is to research and pitch that 'great idea' for a film, and how little of a successful film's glory is attributed to the writer. Robinson goes into fascinating detail about his work on The Killing Fields; his forensic and scholarly research into the atomic bomb, which demolished

Free-wheeling, sometimes vitriolic, reminiscences and opinions from the writer of The Killing Fields and Withnail and I (which he also directed). In fact he started off as an actor, one of his first roles being one of Ava Gardner's lovers in Tam-Lin. He recalls thinking, after a pre-shoot drinking session with her "'This is the key to brilliant acting. A couple of vodkas and you can play Hamlet.' Wrong."There are some wonderfully acerbic memories - "I was at some crummy party somewhere, and

Love LOVE this book but it's primarily going to entertain people fascinated with screenwriting and the behind the scenes goings-on of the movie business. However, when explained by an attractive, witty, sarcastic British writer...who wouldn't be interested?

Remarkably well informed interviewer, with insightful questions and observations too. The answers given are often surprising - both for their candour and polemics. Would never have thought of BR as a green-wellied, Landrover-driving, bring-back-hanging, Telegraph reader. Mainly because he's not a Telegraph reader that is - but all the rest is true - only he takes the Guardian of a morning. And sometimes a bottle of red wine by way of breakfast.But then it would be unreasonable to expect

The master of screenwriting speaks. Compelling extended interview.

An amazing overview of a brilliant career that has been characterized by failure: to this point, Robinson had directed three movies, one of which was a masterpiece (Withnail & I), one a decent film (How To Get Ahead In Advertising), and one that was eviscerated by the Hollywood studio (Jennifer 8). He had an equally spotty record with his screenplays (my friend Bald Richard, aka Joe Ruben, directed one of them, Return To Paradise). He has had one novel published, The Peculiar Memories of

A great insight into the mind of a brilliant writer, director and wit