TRAGICALLY I WAS AN ONLY TWIN

PETER COOK

Biographies & Memoirs

Arrow

Something Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered

SOMETHING LIKE FIRE

Arts & Literature

Arrow Books, Ltd.

"In late 1960, in various flats in Hampstead, a loose group of people started to meet: to criticize projects, to concoct letters to the press, to combine to make competition projects, and generally prop one another up against the boredom of working in a London architectural office. It became obvious that some publication would help. The main British magazines did not at that time publish student work, so that Archigram was reacting to this as well as the general sterility of the scene. The title came from a notion of a more urgent and simple item than a journal, like a 'telegram' or 'aerogramme,' hence 'archi(tecture)-gram.'...By this time Peter Cook, David Greene, and Mike Webb, in making a broadsheet, had started a new Group."Thus begins Archigram, a chronicle of the work of a group of young British architects that became the most influential architecture movement of the 1960s, as told by the members themselves. It includes material published in early issues of their journal, as well as numerous texts, poems, comics, photocollages, drawings, and fantastical architecture projects. Work presented includes Instant City, pod living, the Features Monte Carlo entertainment center, Blow-out Village, and the Cushicle personalized enclosure. Archigram's influence continues unabated: direct descendants of the group's work include Lebbeus Woods, Neil Denari, Takasaki Masaharu, and Morphosis.This title is a facsimile edition of a book originally published in 1972, with a new introduction by Michael Webb.

Archigram;

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

To his many friends as well as his legion of fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man ever. His unique gifts and the way he led the transformation of British comedy (from music hall to perverse absurdity) and his clear comic influence on Monty Python's Flying Circus and every show since, has been much written about. But never before has there been a collection of Cook's own writings. Tragically, I Was an Only Twin gathers the treasures of Cook's comic career, from school and university via Beyond the Fringe alongside Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, to his sureal, satirical journalism for Private Eye. It includes his monologues, the cream of his irreverent essays, and highlights from his much celebrated partnerships with Dudley Moore as Pete &amp; Dud and Derek &amp; Clive. Illustrated with his own drawings, this is the first, the only, and certainly the definitive collection of the transformative genius of comedy that was Peter Cook.

Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook

Humor & Entertainment

William Cook

Humor

St.Martin's Press

"The Dagenham Dialogues" brings together 12 largely improvised comedy routines from the two late masters of British comedy. Originally broadcast in "Not Only...But Also", these sketches preserve the idot wisdom of Cook and Moore's celebrated, cloth-capped alter-egos, Pete and Dud. Armed only with sandwiches, cups of tea and a copy of the "Encyclopedia of Sexual Knowledge" these two half-informed inhabitants of Beacontree Avenue set the world to rights, meditating on subjects like sex, art, religion, the Renaissance and Dud's aunt Dolly.

Dud and Pete : The Dagenham Dialogues

METHUEN

Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, Drawings highlights the work of key contemporary figures who have, through their drawn work, affected the course of architectural thinking. Bringing this together is a chapter-by-chapter series of essays that broadly charts the forward movement and expansion of drawing iconography, techniques and methodologies. Thus it will move from such conditions as Victorian romanticism; Modernist heroics, Minimalism, Diagrams, the representation (and inspiration) of movement, technology and motive power; through to notions and examples of digital automatism. In this way, the advent and challenge of computer-based drawing vis-à-vis ‘sketching’ or technique based drawing will be argued as a natural progression rather than a radical explosion. In particular, there are many examples of hand-in-hand development of a project using several techniques. 
Also includes drawings by Sverre Fehn, Mark Goulthorpe, Zaha Hadid, Ron Herron, Tom Kovak, Enric Miralles, Marcus Novak , Cedric Price, Wolf Prix, and Lebbeus Woods.

Drawing: The Motive Force of Architecture

Architecture

wiley

Author: Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Jonathan Mill
Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
Keywords: acting, fringe
Published: 1964-08-31
Language: English
Category: Anthologies, Drama, Literature & Fiction,
ISBN-10: 0573640025     ISBN-13: 9780573640025
Binding: Paperback
List Price: Unknown

Beyond the Fringe (Acting Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Jonathan Miller

Dudley Moore

Bennett, Alan.

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

A very funny show about some unlikely subjects, including a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan, an in-depth interview with an unimpressed shepherd who witnessed the Nativity, and a French singer who misunderstands an Anglo-Saxon vulgarity and composes a song around it.

Good Evening

Samuel French, Inc.

Why Doesn't my Floppy Disk Flop? And Other Kids' Computer Questions Answered by the Compududes.  For the best answers, coolest Web sites, and excellent cyber-activities, pick up Why Doesn't My Floppy Disk Flop? This lively, informative guide provides the answers to dozens of questions that you (and your parents!) really want to know. Combining their popular brand of humor with cartoon illustrations, sidebars, and tons of advice, the Compududes make all the learning seem like play. From the ins and outs of hardware and software to the best ways to take advantage of the Internet to the exciting future of computing, the answers and explanations in Why Doesn't My Floppy Disk Flop? are guaranteed to plug you in, log you on, and turn you into a computer whiz in no time!

Why Doesn't My Floppy Disk Flop

Bt Bound

"Tragically I was an Only Twin" is a selection of British humorist Peter Cook's comic career, from "Beyond the Fringe," the satirical magazine "Private Eye," his routines with Dudley Moore, and later material. Much of it is very hard to find in the UK, where the book was published, let alone in the US. 350 pages.

Tragically I Was An Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook

Century

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