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Monthly Archives: May 2017
Donald Trump, Pope Francis and Rex Mottram in Vanity Fair
Paul Elie, “pontificating” (his pun) in Vanity Fair magazine, writes of the possible results of this week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Pope Francis. He begins by comparing their respective elections: How strange is this: a group of 115 unelected celibate men … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Newspapers
Tagged Donald Trump, Mr Porter, Paul Elie, Pope Francis, Vanity Fair
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Ronald Knox, Prose Stylist
In a review of the recent collection of articles Ronald Knox, A Man for All Seasons (see earlier post), Washington journalist Matthew Walther declares Knox to be the greatest English prose stylist of his time (P G Wodehouse excepted). Several … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Collections, Newspapers, Ronald Knox
Tagged First Things, Matthew Walther
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Waugh: Upper-Class Wannabe
Today’s Sunday Times in an “advice” column entitled “Mrs Mills Answers Your Questions” responds to a reader with an allusion to Evelyn Waugh: Example of bettersWhen a toff passed away recently, the obituary notice in The Times read that when a guest … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Mrs Mills, Sunday Times
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Waugh and the Friedman Unit
On a blog specializing in stories about the Iraq War, blogger Alexander Harrowell describes what is known to those write about such things as the “Friedman Unit”: Those of us who blogged through the Iraq War will of course remember the Friedman … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Abyssinian War, Alexander Harrowell, Daily Mail, Ian Burrell, iNews, Press Gazette, Steven Glover, The Yorkshire Rant
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Christ Church Dust-up Brings Waugh Cites in Press
A recent incident at Christ Church, an Oxford college, has been widely reported in the British press. This involved a student, Lavinia Woodward, who was studying to be a surgeon. In a reportedly drug-induced rage, she stabbed her boyfriend (whom … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Christ Church, Daily Mail, Guardian, Lavinia Woodward, Peter Hitchins, Simon Jenkins, Tom Winnifrith
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Scoop Profiled in Arkansas Paper
Philip Martin has written an opinion column on Scoop which appears in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s online edition. Excluded from his wife’s book group’s discussion of the novel, he took the occasion to reconsider it (and Waugh in Abyssinia) in his … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Philip Martin
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Sunset Boulevard and The Loved One (More)
Another classic film blogger has posted an article noting, inter alia, the debt owed by Billy Wilder’s 1956 film Sunset Boulevard to Waugh’s novel The Loved One. (See previous posts.): The British author’s satirical The Loved One was published in 1948, after Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
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USA Premiere of Decline and Fall Today
Acorn-TV is premiering the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall today. All three episodes are available now for streaming, and a free one-week trial is on offer for those who do not already have subscriptions. Here’s the link … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Los Angeles Times, Robert Lloyd
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Decline and Fall in the US Papers
The TV Critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, David Weigand, has written a quite favorable review of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall which will debut tomorrow in the US: Biting wit and a farcically frothy plot make “Decline … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, David Weigand, James Wood, San Francisco Chronicle, Tobias Grey, Wall Street Journal
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