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# The Kenneth Williams Diaries

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## Customer Reviews

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    Beyond Our Ken
  

*by K***T on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 July 2018*

The coroner who recorded an open verdict on the death of Kenneth Williams, on the basis of it being unclear whether the overdose of barbiturates he took was accidental or deliberate, clearly had not read Williams's diary.The theme of suicide runs through the diaries like a continual refrain, and towards the end, when for the final months of his life he is suffering excruciating pain from a spastic colon and a recurring ulcer, Williams is talking about ending it all, and making references to his stockpile of painkillers.Life seems to have been continually painful for him. He recoils from theatre life, and the claustrophobia of rep, and he disdains much of his broadcast work. He develops a strong dislike for many of those he works with, such as Tony Hancock and Sid James, and must have been a continual source of anguish to his agent, petulantly turning down lucrative offers because he "can't be bothered".Even going out in public becomes intolerable to his tetchy personality, although justifiably perhaps as he is ridiculed openly in the streets for his work, his appearance, and his homosexuality.Unable to find love with a suitable partner, or even to consummate a relationship, he begins to realise that the only friend he has, the only one who understands him, is his mother. And as she becomes older and more frail, he realises that he is trapped.The diaries are a fascinating insight into the life and mind of one of our best-loved characters, for even if he did recoil from affection, affection is what we felt for him.

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    A fascinating if not an easy read
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 March 2015*

I purchased this because, as a big fan of Williams' radio output, I was mystified by his off-stage depression and general unhappiness in his private life. A warning, then, that this collection of his diaries does not make easy reading, often clearly relating how depressing he finds the human condition to be.The entries are sporadic, often skipping weeks, if not months, at a time, but clearly show how his career evolved and what he thought of the plays, films and radio and TV shows that he took part in. He holds nothing back in his view of other actors, directors and producers, veering from overbearing praise to shocking condemnation with little in between.I've deducted a star only because I found the footnotes, which clarify some of the personalities to whom Williams denotes initials only, to be sometimes incomplete. A little bit of deduction is sometimes necessary to unravel exactly who he was talking about.With that said anyone, like me, who would like to know more about Williams' background and how he became a star of comedy films and radio shows will be fascinated by this intrusion into his private life, clearly displayed by diary entries that read as though they were written partly for his own amusement and often to assuage the anguish that he felt inside. Not an easy read, nor an entertaining one, but a fascinating dive into one person's highly opinionated psyche.

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    Outrageous!
  

*by D***V on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2022*

Most entertaining. Almost every entry is entertaining. It is the diary of a very  complex entertainer, contradictory, erratic, opinionated, puritanical, obsessive, depressive, blatantly homosexual in his own way etc etc. . It is as if writing such a detailed diary was as a safely valve, although he seems to have shamelessly used other people for that purpose as well. Yet he managed to retain friends. Amazing.

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