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  • Halfway to Hollywood

  • Diaries 1980-1988, Volume Two
  • By: Michael Palin
  • Narrated by: Michael Palin
  • Length: 28 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Halfway to Hollywood

By: Michael Palin
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Michael Palin's best-selling diaries of the 1980s.

After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A Fish Called Wanda (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor) and the first of his seven celebrated television journeys for the BBC. He co-produced, wrote and played the lead in The Missionary opposite Maggie Smith, who also appeared with him in A Private Function, written by Alan Bennett.

Such was his fame in the US, he was enticed into once again hosting the enormously popular show Saturday Night Live, in one edition of which his mother makes a highly successful surprise guest appearance. He filmed several journeys for television and became chairman of the pressure group Transport 2000. His family remains a constant as his and Helen's children enter their teens.

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Very easy listening, interesting and moving

I enjoyed this autobiographical account of Michael’s life in the 1980s. So many historical details of the times included. Many dry and funny observations of his life as a writer and actor.Also a very honest account of a heartbreaking family tragedy that was sad beyond words described with such sensitivity.

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Very insightful trip into the 80s

Well paced and easily listened to. Recommend for any Python fans or 80s historians alike.

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