The Elephant To Hollywood - Michael Caine

Michael Caine has passed from movie star to leading man to bit part, openly admitting he has written his second autobiography 18 years after his first because of that fact, a les than subtle exercise in reminded his fans about the true great he once was, the book an old mans ego boost before he croaks. Hollywood stars don’t like not being as famous as they once were and Caine very open about that fact in this less than revelatory new edition of an old story. “A movie star gets the top role and allowed to change it to suit him; a leading man reads the lines and gets on with it”. Michael is ... more

I'm not a huge fan of autobiographies, however, I do like Michael Caine. I'm not old enough to remember much of his early work but with his distinctive voice you can tell that he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth, with this in mind I was intrigued to find how he became a Hollywood legend. I haven't read Michael Caine's previous autobiography and I think this may have gone in his favour. He does say at the start of the book that he'd wrote What's it all About? thinking that his film career was over but that he's had emense success since which has persuaded him to write this follow up ... more