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'Whatshisname: The Life and Death of Charles Hawtrey' biography by Wes Butters name checks Morrissey

posted by davidt on Friday May 28 2010, @10:00AM
Kewpie sends the link to the post in the forums by butley (via Morrissey reddit):

Whatshisname - Charles Hawtrey biography

Just finished the excellent book about Charles Hawtrey by Wes Butters. Quite a few Morrissey references which make this fantastic book even better.
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  • My childhood included hours of entertainment involving Charles Hawtrey. Through long, dark, winter nights, I sat and watched in awe of his comic genius. Charles, Kenneth and Sidney showed us all - through catalogues of 35mm film and TV episodes - some amazing work, albeit work on the CarryOn films which were slaughtered by (the Press) at times. A case of RWhite's lemonade may have hidden an evening of socialising and heavy drinking out of the public eye, but Charles Hawtrey is remembered with fond memories by me because he brought laughter, comedy, fun and film into my life and also into many others. He may have retired to Deal in the 1980s but he never truly RETIRED. Some 30 - or is it 40 - years later, his work lives on forever.

    A great man once wrote some lovely things: "The very last comic genius. Charles Hawtrey's death ties in with the advance chill of 1992, the slaughter of the British passport, and the last death wheeze of the real England... [He was] 60 per cent of Carry On appeal. By never giving press interviews, and by all accounts being unfriendly and friendless, Hawtrey's mystique surpasses Garbo. I personally loved him."

    Regards

    Hazard.
    Anonymous -- Sunday June 06 2010, @04:29PM (#352833)

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