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“But this is a movie. In life, nothing similar happened. To the newcomer — what Keanu was like in this situation — there was no chance. You will have to watch this masterpiece very carefully so…” — this is just a piece of the book. Read it all… It is very interested. The authors tried their best to wrote the real biography of Mr. Keanu Charles Reeves as it was possible to describe according to the information taken from the most reliable official “data bases”, such as interviews, articles, etc.

Lives that Never Grow OldPart of a radical series –edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Johnson’s book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.When he first came to London, young Samuel Johnson was befriended by the flamboyant poet, playwright and blackmailer, Richard Savage. Walking the backstreets at night, he learned Savage’s extraordinary story – supposedly persecuted by a ‘cruel mother’, sentenced to death for a murder in a brothel, appointed Volunteer Poet Laureate to the Queen, and finally broken and outcast.With this moving and intimate account, Johnson created a brilliant black comedy of 18th-century Grub Street which revolutionised English biography by its psychological realism. Yet Savage’s destructive charm and delusions of grandeur sometimes even threatened to entangle Johnson himself.