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Ray Martin's favourites : the stories behind the legends / Ray Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Ray, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Martin, Ray, 1944---Anecdotes.
- Martin, Ray.
- Television broadcasting--Australia--Anecdotes.
- Television broadcasting.
- Popular culture--Australia--Anecdotes.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Victory Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- Giving readers privileged access to the foibles of the famous, the chases to get "big interviews," and the extraordinary locations where they take place, this record assembles the most remarkable interviews collected during Ray Martin's successful career as a journalist. Featuring subjects including Eric Bana, Audrey Hepburn, Olivia Newton John, Heath Ledger, Madonna, and Oprah Winfrey, this perceptive and inspiring compilation shares the author's impressions and reflections on each individual and details the challenges of talking to people from all walks of life.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- An unnatural act
- It's never too late / Audrey Hepburn
- Sex never disappoints me / Dustin Hoffman
- Dinner with the bishop / Jane Fonda
- Simply the best / Michael Crawford
- The king of comedy / Peter Cook
- Caryn she ain't / Whoopi Goldberg
- 'Is it Opera?' / Oprah Winfrey
- 'If they could only see me now' / Shirley MacLaine
- The missing interview / Bob Dylan
- The worst of friends / Bob Hawke and Paul Keating
- The 'father of reconciliation' / Patrick Dodson
- The old eye doctor / Fred Hollows
- 'Miss Goody-two-shoes' / Lowitja O'Donoghue
- 'We're not all like James Bond' / His Royal Highness, Prince Charles
- The classic Coppertone kid / Jodie Foster
- As good as Marlon Brando / Heath Ledger
- An Oscar, in a brown paper bag / Russell Crowe
- A sporting life …
- Our century / Steve Waugh
- 'Just an ordinary human being' / Don Bradman
- The big fella / Kerry Packer
- 'That's life' / Derryn Hinch
- The great train robber / Ronnie Biggs
- A true Renaissance man / Peter Ustinov
- The king of foreplay / Sydney Pollack
- The tough get going / Michael Douglas
- The Queen of Pop / Madonna
- More than a city slicker / Billy Crystal
- The funniest man alive / Robin Williams
- Poems, prayers and promises / John Denver.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-522-86089-3
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