18 quid!! Is that a joke?
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Quote: Mikey88 @ 30th September 2014, 12:56 PM BST18 quid!! Is that a joke?
Not bad for 425pp!!
Doesn't matter mate, you are hardly going to sell any at that price, it's about 4 times too expensive.
Well maybe not 4 times too expensive but it's defo going to put a lot of people off buying it.
On another note, I would consider making it availabe on Kindle too.
Seems a reasonable price for a specialist book. Good luck with it, Robbi!
Quote: beaky @ 30th September 2014, 2:05 PM BSTSeems a reasonable price for a specialist book. Good luck with it, Robbi!
Thanks Beaky! You have clearly understood that this is indeed a serious specialist study, and not a fanzine! Had it been published by a British academic publisher it would have been FAR more expensive! Thank goodness for Bear Manor Books, USA!
The book is also available on Kindle and ebooks.
Here are the views of some rather more serious critics!!
"I am in awe! Robert Kenny's analysis is quite brilliant, and exactly what Lucan deserves after all these years." - Anthony Slide, author and film historian
"A timely, fascinating and unique study of an unjustly neglected star." - Jeffrey Richards, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Lancaster
"This is a book I devoured!" - Richard Anthony Baker, author, broadcaster and former BBC News Assistant Editor
All comedy aficionados should watch in awe at the talent of Arthur Lucan as he plays 'Old Mother Riley'.
Many men have donned women's clothing for comedy purposes but none ever did it better than Lucan, when at his best.
If ever an actor truly inhabited his character, this was it.
There'll never be another.
Quote: Rood Eye @ 30th September 2014, 3:00 PM BSTAll comedy aficionados should watch in awe at the talent of Arthur Lucan as he plays 'Old Mother Riley'.
Many men have donned women's clothing for comedy purposes but none ever did it better than Lucan, when at his best.
If ever an actor truly inhabited his character, this was it.
There'll never be another.
Norman Evans?
And that's Maxie's line!
Quote: Oldrocker @ 30th September 2014, 3:12 PM BSTNorman Evans?
And that's Maxie's line!
Evans and Lucan were very different, as I hope my book will show.
My great grandmother was a huge fan of Old Mother Riley. Her infant grandchildren whom she dragged to the cinema were bemused to say the least.
Quote: Oldrocker @ 30th September 2014, 3:12 PM BSTNorman Evans?
I think the audience saw Norman Evans as a man playing a woman but they saw Old Mother Riley as a woman (even though most of them knew it was a man) - and that's a huge tribute to Arthur Lucan.
Quote: Rood Eye @ 30th September 2014, 4:20 PM BSTI think the audience saw Norman Evans as a man playing a woman but they saw Old Mother Riley as a woman (even though most of them knew it was a man) - and that's a huge tribute to Arthur Lucan.
I concur - good observation.
I can remember seeing the films at Saturday Morning pictures and thinking he was a cranky old woman. Can't think of anyone else who pulled that off...............unless someone out there knows different?
'Spect there will be.
Quote: Robbi @ 30th September 2014, 3:15 PM BSTEvans and Lucan were very different, as I hope my book will show.
Fair point well made Barbera.
...'she' also met 'the Vampire' [or summat]
One of the funniest lines I've ever heard is delivered by Old Mother Riley in her 1938 film "Old Mother Riley in Paris".
After being fired from her job as a charlady and being castigated by her daughter Kitty for losing the job, she wrings her hands, gazes skyward and exclaims with characteristic angst:
"How sharper than a serpent's thingamabob it is to have a toothless child!"
24ct-gold!