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AFI Posts Details of The Loved One
The American Film Institute has posted detailed production information relating to the 1965 film adaptation of Waugh’s novel The Loved One. Much of this is familiar but there are some previously unseen (or rarely repeated) elements included in their research … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, The Loved One
Tagged American Film Institute
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Unsung Waughs
A posting by Ralph Berry on the weblog of the “paleoconservative” journal Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture cites one of Waugh’s least read novels: I was lately in Exeter, hoping to see something of the Islamic Centre at the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Black Mischief, Complete Works, Film, Helena, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Harry Ransom Center, Sara Haslam, Tab Hunter, The Guardian
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Roundup: Picture This
A remarkable photo of Evelyn Waugh has been posted on the men’s clothing website Voxsartoria. This is from 1950, although the name of the photographer is not given. What is most noticeable about the photo is the lighting on the … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Newspapers, Photographs, Robbery Under Law, Waugh Family
Tagged alamy.com, BBC, Five Books, Jacob Rees-Mogg, The New European, Voxsartoria
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Terence Greenidge and Degenerate Oxford?
Peter Harrington Booksellers in London are listing a copy of the 1930 book by Terence Greenidge entitled Degenerate Oxford? A Critical Study of Modern University Life. He is also credited with several later books in his Wikipedia entry, including fiction, poetry … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Items for Sale, Oxford
Tagged Peter Harrington Booksellers, Terence Greenidge, The Scarlet Woman
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Vile Bodies: Two Wins and a Loss
Esquire magazine has published a list of what it considers the “24 Funniest Books Ever Written” as compiled by Will Hersey. At number 6 is Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930): …Evelyn Waugh brilliantly, hilariously, unflinchingly but always humanely pinions a society … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Alex Clark, Esquire, Guardian, Peter O'Toole, TheWrap.com, Will Hersey
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Celebrities and Waugh: Roundup
The press is replete with celebrities citing Evelyn Waugh this week. In the Daily Express, actor Freddie Fox cited Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited as one of his six favorite books: “Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint” is … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Express, Freddie Fox, Irish Times, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Prendlebury, Taki's Magazine, The Tatler
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Waviana in the Book Trade
A Baltimore dealer has on offer an original Hollywood film script of Waugh’s 1948 novel  The Loved One as written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. This is Royal Books on 25th St. This is a July 1964 draft of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Bibliophilia, Film, Items for Sale, The Loved One
Tagged Cambridge University Library Soecial Colections, John Gielgud, Royal Books, Terry Southern, William Burges
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Interview with The Loved One’s Scriptwriter
The San Francisco Chronicle has reprinted an interview with scrptwriter Terry Southern from 28 October 1964. This would have been after he had finished the script for the film adaptation of The Loved One and perhaps while the film was … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Terry Southern
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