Eric and Ernie -- Morecambe and Wise
A biography of the comic duo, who will be familiar to anyone who grew up in Britain in the 1970s. It's written by the principals themselves, and chronicles their earliest days as would-be entertainers, how they met up at a talent show, the failure of their first TV show and their subsequent successes. I found this both fascinating and endearing.
One common thread in many biographies and autobiographies is that we see a lot of the subject's early struggle, then seem to pass straight into the phase of greatest success, without ever quite understanding how the transition happened. The key moments, and even the years in which they happened, seem to get short shrift, so that the subject appears, as if by magic, in its Ultimate Form. That is true of Eric and Ernie, to its detriment.
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