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Cannes Confidential
John McGrath is an executive chef, author and an active film critic who has reported for radio, television and print media for more than 16 years. Author of Watch This Movie, a collection of reviews of his top 1000 films, John is also a veteran of seven Cannes Film Festivals. His last book Its All Part of the Alpine Experience took a behind the scenes look at life as a seasonaire in the worlds most famous ski resort, Chamonix Mont Blanc. Cannes Confidential reveals everything there is to know about the legendary Cannes Film Festival but too afraid to ask. No one has previously attempted taking such an insiders look at the cinema cognoscenti, the hype, the Riviera underworld and the glitz, glamour, sleaze, sex and debauchery that intermingles with the lifestyles of the rich and famous and is the real life blood of the famous festival.
Chef For Sail
In Part Two of his 'Chef for Sail' trilogy, John B McGrath continues his adventures in cooking for the rich and famous while traveling the world.
Watch this Movie
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Chef For Sail
Below Deck and Beyond the Dunes In the final part of his Chef for Sail trilogy, John continues his desire to travel cooking all over the world for a Macau dynasty, then one of China's richest tycoons. He sails around Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, from France thru the Suez Canal to Oman, onto the Maldives, Singapore, Palau, and then Hong Kong for a permanent berth. Tragedy strikes when he skis off a cliff in the Bosnian Alps, bedridden for a year. To recover emotionally, physically, and mentally, John moves to Queenstown, New Zealand. However, catastrophe strikes again when John and a horse fall down a cliff badly breaking his back. Lucky to walk again, a long slow painful recovery ensues...
Chef For Sail
For the last 13 years, John B. McGrath has been conquering the culinary cosmos, cooking in over 50 countries for business tycoons, royalty, and some of the globe's biggest celebrities. Sailing close to 90,000 nautical miles and working in the world's most famous ski resorts, he has evolved into a world-class chef at the top of the high-pressure gastronomic game. And yet, it was all a total accident. Before his first job as a chef, John thought he was interviewing to be a ski instructor. So, how did he get here? The first of an international travel trilogy, Chef for Sail is the story of a man who left New Zealand with nothing to lose and who faked it 'til he made it, the story of a raconteur,...
A Good Night Out
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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Written during the 1970s, John McGrath's winding, furious, innovative play tracks the economic history and exploitation of the Scottish Highlands from the post-Rebellion suppression of the clans to the story of the Clearances: in the nineteenth century, aristocratic landowners discovered the profitability of sheep farming, and forced a mass emigration of rural Highlanders, burning their houses in order to make way for the Cheviot sheep. The play follows the thread of capitalist and repressive exploitation through the estates of the stag-hunting landed gentry, to the 1970s rush for profit in the name of North Sea Oil. Described by the playwright as having a “ceilidh” format, The Cheviot, ...
Naked Thoughts that Roam about
This deliberately polemical collection of writings by John McGrath, socialist playwright, director & producer, is intended to stir minds and adjust perspectives. He ranges widely over the performing media and 40 years of writing, directing & producing.
The Boston Directory
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Boston Directory
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