Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

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Much like delicious finger food at a buffet often leaves you feeling satisfied but still wanting more, so too with Oh Miriam!

It is rare that I find someone speaking whose sentences I can often finish because we are so much in agreement. From being escorted off the Today programme (for saying what we were all thinking) to declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave; from Tales of the Unexpected to Graham Norton’s sofa, she is our most loved and most outspoken national treasure. The text is something I'll probably pick up too at some point, but with a voice like Miriam's, you simply have to listen to the audiobook, don't you?She draws from her own experiences of life and weaves them into stories that easily translate into issues and crises of conscience that we all face day in, day out.

The actor says she developed “a schoolgirl crush” on Redgrave, writing: “I was ‘cracked’ on her just like being back at Oxford High School. Award-winning actress, bestselling author of her memoir This Much is True, and Britain's naughtiest national treasure is back, and she's as outrageous as ever. I dithered before giving this book a two star review because I really do like Miriam Margolyes and her first book was a riot.this book is like Margolyes herself - outspoken, ebullient and unexpectedly wise' EMMA LEE-POTTER, Daily Express 'Snortingly funny . Her new memoir, ‘Oh Miriam: Stories from an Extraordinary Life’, is true to form, and one of those who she discusses is Martin. In the memoir, Margolyes names Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu as the “living person” she “most despises”.

It's a shame because she is naturally funny, smart and eloquent and I wish she'd have relied more on that than being rude throughout. Margolyes, 83, played the secretary to Martin’s “psychopathic dentist” Orin Scrivello in the film and, in their musical number “Dentist!Thoroughly entertaining to listen to, because she reads it herself, in her beautiful, British accent. And with a castlist that stretches from Churchill to di Caprio, Dahl to Dietrich, Princess Margaret to Maggie Smith, I've got so much more to tell you and so much more to say. If you put aside her lovably excessive use of the word c***, then there is so much that can be taken from the words she puts onto paper. Miriam is an icon, a cocksucker - and the star of her show' ROBERT McCRUM, Independent 'Our naughtiest national treasure . Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes.

Margolyes reflects on appearing on The Graham Norton Show alongside Friends star Matthew Perry while having “no idea who he was”. Wij, Yahoo, maken deel uit van de Yahoo-groep van merken De sites en apps die wij bezitten en exploiteren, waaronder Yahoo en AOL, en onze digitale advertentiedienst Yahoo Advertising. From declaring my love to Vanessa Redgrave to being fed cockroaches by Steve Buscemi, from turnip-based comedy with Blackadder to being farted on by Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Graham Norton's sofa to Alan Cumming's camper van, my life has been (and continues to be) an uproarious adventure. This follow up book is more anecdotal and covers topics that Miriam wants to discuss, which in my opinion, is still highly enjoyable.Margolyes suggests she was hurt for real while filming the scenes, writing: “I was hit all day by doors opening in my face; repeatedly punched, slapped and knocked down by an unlovely and unapologetic Steve Martin – perhaps he was method acting – and came home grumpy with a splitting headache.