The Tap Dancing Knife Thrower

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher Place: Syndey
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: First Edition

Description: 368 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The icon and legend at last tells his story his way - without the boring bits. Paul Hogan first appeared on our screens in 1971 as a tap dancing knife thrower on channel 9s New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a dare, but when the networks switchboard lit up, he was invited back. So popular was he with viewers, Hogan became a regular on Mike Willesees A Current Affair. The rest, as they say, is history. In collaboration with his business partner and best friend John Cornell (who played his sidekick, Strop), he went on to become Australias favourite TV comedian. His hugely popular comedy shows and appearances in unforgettable and ground-breaking ads for cigarettes, beer and tourism, came to personify Australia and Australians here and overseas, helping to change the perception of who we are as people and as a nation. Then, in 1986, Crocodile Dundee, the movie he conceived, co-wrote and starred in, became an international smash, grossing more than a billion dollars in todays money and earning its star an Oscar nomination. Despite the fact Hoges claimed to be retired, many more movies followed, including Crocodile Dundee II, Lightning Jack, Almost an Angel and Charlie & Boots. But even as his star rose ever higher, he always expected someone to grab him by the arm and say, What are you doing here Youre just a bloody rigger! The Tap Dancing Knife Thrower is a funny and candid account of the astonishing life of one lucky bastard, as Hoges describes himself. Full of countless stories never previously shared and told in the comedians inimitable, funny and self-deprecating style, The Tap Dancing Knife Thrower is Paul Hogans story told his way - without the boring bits.

ISBN: 9781460759295