-What a treat. An all-star cast with one thing in common: they worked with David Wood. And just for us he-s brought them to life again - and so vividly - in this irresistible memoir of his -brushes with Hollywood''." Gyles Brandreth
In this memoir, actor and writer David Wood recalls his -brushes with Hollywood-, notably being kissed on the lips by Elizabeth Taylor as midnight struck on his 22nd birthday; playing Richard Burton-s servant on stage in Dr Faustus; being seduced by Shelley Winters in The Vamp, a television two-hander play; hanging upside down from a chandelier and being rescued by David Hemmings in the West End musical Jeeves; singing songs and being shot down in flames as a Royal Flying Corps officer in the film Aces High, in which he was reunited with
