Welcome to Fawlty Towers, the best loved bad hotel in the
world, and to "the definitive volume of sit-com perfection.
Required reading. "-Punch. What did Basil Fawlty fail to avoid
mentioning? Why did Sybil keep snagging her cardies? Where was
Polly on the night of the great wedding anniversary disaster? And
what is the Spanish word for "donkey"?The answer to all these
questions can be found in this, the complete and unexpurgated
scripts of Fawlty Towers the most celebrated "Brit-com" of all
time, and the show was voted the top UK television series ever by
the British Film Institute. The snobbish, manic Basil...his
over-coiffeured, domineering wife Sybil...the hopeless but
ever-hopeful waiter Manuel...the calm and capable Polly...and of
course the steady stream of abused guestsall live again in the
pages of The Complete Fawlty Towers. Gahan Wilson in the New York
Times has called John Cleese "arguably one of the funniest people
now living. " And as one British periodical Literary Review put
it, the book is "superbly well written. If you''re on a bus and
can''t see Basil Fawlty thrashing his car with a large branch, it is
some compensation to read it happening. " Or as one anonymous fan
put it on-line: "Yes, it''s all here, all the comedy, the
frustration, the dead body, even the rat. "
關於作者:
John Cleese is a multi-talented actor and author who lists his
recreations in Who''s Who as "gluttony and sloth." At 6'' 4 34" he
is exactly the same height as Basil Fawlty. Connie Booth, who was
formerly married to John Cleese, was an oasis of sanity in Fawlty
Towers as Polly.
目錄:
A Touch of Class
The Builders
The Wedding Party
The Hotel Inspectors
Gourmet Night
The Germans
Communication Problems
The Psychiatrist
Waldorf Salad
The Kipper and the Corpse
The Anniversary
Basil the Rat