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Article: Ewan McGregor: his life and slender times A famous publisher has asked you to write a biography of the star of Trainspotting. First, a bit of self-congratulation is in order, then you have to write the bloody thing. And quick. By Xan Brooks
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 17, 1998
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ABOUT A year ago, I wrote up an interview for publication in The
Big Issue magazine. The article amassed precisely two pieces of
feedback. The first was an Outraged-of-Oldham type letter
complaining that the picture of Ewan McGregor smoking a Marlboro on
the cover set a terrible example to the youth of Britain. The second
was a phone-call from Andre Deutsch publishers asking if I'd be
interested in writing McGregor's biography. All things considered,
it was a better response than normal.
Initially, though, the second reaction troubled me rather more
than the first. Because celebrity biogs are weird. Traditionally
these 20th-century phenomena tend to occupy a polarised and
schizophrenic ...