Buy this book on-line MOLINE, KAREN: : Bob Hoskins: AN UNLIKELY HEROLONDON.SIDGWICK & JACKSON,1988. ISBN 0283995084.
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The face can be dark with menace,the bullet head thrust aggressively - only to crack into the most knowing and disarming grin.It could be on stage or off. . . .
Bob Hoskins has become one of the most successful stage,television and film actors in Britain.Nominated for an Oscar in 1987 for Mona Lisa,he is also increasingly successful in Hollywood.His latest film (then 1988),A Prayer for the Dying,in which he stars with Mickey Rourke,is likely to be a sensation.
Hoskins' success owes little to classical good looks, lucky breaks or formal training.It is sheer,inspired talent and the personality of the man blended with the demands of each part.It is no coincidence that his most memorable roles have been demonic - whether in Guys and Dolls, The Duchess of Malfi, The Long Good Friday, Pennies from Heaven or Mona Lisa.But the quality of danger so often present in his work is mixed with honesty,grit and humour - all of which characterise the man as well as the actor.
Hoskins' working class childhood in North London,sketchy education and early drifting left him with a lot of sheer savvy and surprising assurance.He got his first part by accident, whilst accompanying a friend to an audition and - with nothing to lose - his acting career was born.Ten years later,by the mid 1970's,he had become a star.As Karen Moline shows,in this meticulously researched biography,Hoskins is a man who generates fierce emotions.Friends are intensely loyal,but over the years he has collected a few adversaries too.Dozens of those who have known or worked with Hoskins spoke to Karen Moline and from these conversations a complex portrait emerges - one of a sublimely talented actor who is also at ease in the pub,a man who many women have found irresistable and who men like to admire too,and one whose toughness is as legendary as his charisma.
Though the author has ghosted various show-biz books,this is her first full- scale biography.
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