Parky's People: The Lives, the Laughs, the Legend

One hundred legendary encounters with the man who has met everyone—Muhammad Ali, Bob Hope, Bette Davis, Woody Allen, John Lennon, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Sammy Davis Jr., Jane Fonda, and many more Through his perceptive onscreen interviews over the past five decades, Michael Parkinson has introduced millions of people to the personalities of major international figures in sport, show business, politics, the arts, and journalism. Here, he shares the highlights of his interviews, providing an intimate insight into the private lives and personal characters of celebrities from Roald Dahl to George Michael and W. H. Auden to Elton John. Now an international celebrity himself, the man from a humble but colorful mining family has teased the secerets out of even the most reticent star guests, such as Fred Astaire and Ingrid Bergman, and he has drawn fascinating new information and insights from even the most frequently interviewed subjects like Peter Ustinov, David Niven, and Stephen Fry. Great comics such as Billy Connolly, Bob Hope, Peter Sellers, and Dawn French prove as funny on the page as on screen, and it seems that the star of every Hollywood legend shines brightly under Parkinson's subtle questioning.