Lucky Boy
Kevin Kopelson, 3 April 1997
Shine: The Screenplay
by Jan Sardi.
Bloomsbury, 176 pp., £7.99, January 1997,0 7475 3173 0 Show More
by Jan Sardi.
Bloomsbury, 176 pp., £7.99, January 1997,
The Book of David
by Beverley Eley.
HarperCollins, 285 pp., £8.99, March 1997,0 207 19105 0 Show More
by Beverley Eley.
HarperCollins, 285 pp., £8.99, March 1997,
Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life with David Helfgott
by Gillian Helfgott, with Alissa Tanskaya.
Penguin, 337 pp., £6.99, January 1997,0 14 026546 5 Show More
by Gillian Helfgott, with Alissa Tanskaya.
Penguin, 337 pp., £6.99, January 1997,
“... comes Scott Hicks’s Shine, an equally arty but commercially viable biopic about a man – David Helfgott (played by Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor and Alex Rafalowicz) – who is abnormally inarticulate. Helfgott’s very first words are: ‘Kissed them all, I kissed them all, always kissed cats, puss-cats, kissed ... ”
