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Wallace, Arminta. "The Silver Castle, by Clive James". Irish Times, 17 January 1998. Retrieved 28 November 2019. His real name was Warrant Officer First Class Ronald McDonald, but he was known throughout the army as Ronnie the One. Responsible for battalion discipline, he had powers of life and death over all non-commissioned personnel and could even bring charges against officers up to the rank of Captain. . . . It was because he was always screaming so hard. At that moment he was screaming directly at me. 'GED-YAHAHCARD!' Later on a translator told me that this mean (sic) 'Get your hair cut' and could generally be taken as a friendly greeting, especially if you could still see his eyes. . . . (pp. 143-44) James was a fan of the St George Dragons and wrote admiringly of Rugby League Immortal Reg Gasnier who was a schoolmate at Sydney Technical High School. [75] He guest presented one episode of The Footy Show in 2005. [76] Health and death [ edit ]

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a b "Clive James reflects on career, poetry and death in interview with Kerry O'Brien". ABC News. 7 September 2013 . Retrieved 28 November 2019. He learned as a child to succeed through being a clown, the comic, a storyteller. He was always trying to create himself in a way to give himself self-esteem. He felt like a nonentity who had to create his own identity and then maintain it, a juvenile motor mouth who went on to make a living from being just that. In 2013, he issued his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. The work, adopting quatrains to translate the original's terza rima, was well received by Australian critics. [27] [28] Writing for The New York Times, Joseph Luzzi thought it often failed to capture the more dramatic moments of the Inferno, but that it was more successful where Dante slows down, in the more theological and deliberative cantos of the Purgatorio and Paradiso. [29] Novelist and memoirist [ edit ] Japanese Maple' by Clive James". The New York Times. 27 November 2019 . Retrieved 29 November 2019. Stephen Brook (25 April 2008). "Hari and James take Orwell prizes". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 25 April 2008.

The Burma Campaign UK: AboutUs". Archived from the original on 10 October 2007 . Retrieved 24 December 2007. Clive James tells BBC "I am dying, I am near the end" ". Belfast Telegraph. 21 June 2012 . Retrieved 21 June 2012. a b Jeffries, Stuart (27 November 2019). "Clive James obituary". Guardian . Retrieved 28 November 2019. He then goes on to write: ‘Gradually even the most scornful among my listeners came to accept that what Jamesie said wasn’t meant to be true – only entertaining. If it wasn’t that, key figures drifted away, and soon everyone else was gone along with them, leaving me alone with my uneaten sandwiches.’

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He described Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his bodybuilding days, as looking like "a brown condom full of walnuts". [47]Sir Michael Parkinson, on Unreliable Memoirs You can’t put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal, decent resistance within seconds. Not to be missed ( Unreliable Memoirs) Gruber, Fiona (25 September 2015). "A late afternoon with Clive James". ABC . Retrieved 28 November 2019.

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Unreliable Memoirs is a memoir by Australian writer Clive James published in 1980 by Jonathan Cape [1] In this first volume, James explores his childhood adventures in the suburbs of post-war Sydney, his excited arrival in Sixties’ London as a young man and aspiring poet, and his time at Cambridge University where he neglected his studies in favour of poetry, the stage, the music business and the film industry.I was one of those who suggested that our book club read this, in our elaborate democratic process of choosing books from the library group reading list, but once I started in I couldn’t stand it. Given encouragement from others who said they had laughed out loud reading it, I persisted, sort of, which means that I skipped and sampled enough to a) learn more than I needed to know about Clive’s childhood and adolescence and b) could contribute to the discussion. Guaranteed by a bold commendation under the title on the front cover: 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter . . . , this memoir looked interestingly challenging to me at first sight when I came across it in the DASA Book Café a few months ago. Till early last July I decided to buy one to read after reading his Wikipedia biography. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_J...) Atkin and James toured together to promote both the final album, a "contractual obligation" collection consisting of parodies and humour numbers written over the years, and James's own Felicity Fark epic poem. James wrote the album sleeve notes, which mostly linked the songs with thinly disguised jibes at popular artists and trends. On stage James both read from his poem, and introduced the album songs. Despite the success of the tour, there were no more recordings by Atkin, who pursued other opportunities and eventually became a BBC radio producer.

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Appleyard, Bryan (12 November 2006). "Interview Clive James". The Times. London . Retrieved 30 April 2010. James published several books of poetry, including Poem of the Year (1983), a verse-diary; Other Passports: Poems 1958–1985, a first collection; and The Book of My Enemy (2003), a volume that takes its title from his poem "The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered". [23] Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. But do not blame Clive. His book trails none of the stink of the up-to-date memoir. Especially it has no funk of message — no fetor of " setting goals", no reek of "courageous persistence", no effluvium of "self-acceptance", and none of the fetid compost-heap putrescence of "finding my inner me". Clive James – Filmography". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019 . Retrieved 1 March 2020.Describing religions as "advertising agencies for a product that doesn't exist", James was an atheist and saw it as the default and obvious position. [64] [65] James seems devoid of empathy, with no moral compass, apparently no relationships that mattered to him, except that with himself. His mother, widowed at the end of WWII and left to bring up this challenging boy, is almost completely ignored. There’s no mention of her life, and he seems to have happily discarded her as he took off for another life at university and then England. Clive James, polymath critic and poet dies". Nine News. 28 November 2019 . Retrieved 31 October 2021. In 1999, John Gross included an excerpt from Unreliable Memoirs in The New Oxford Book of English Prose. [31] John Carey chose Unreliable Memoirs as one of the 50 most enjoyable books of the 20th century in his book Pure Pleasure (2000). [32] Television [ edit ]