Category Archives: Film

Interview at Castle Howard

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Sunday Times published an interview earlier this month of Victoria Howard. She is described as the new chatelaine of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire where both the TV and cinema versions of Brideshead Revisited were filmed. She refuses to … Continue reading →

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Brideshead Film Emerges in Weinstein Scandal

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In wake of the sexual harassment scandal involving US filmmaker Harvey Weinstein, the New York Post has reported an incident arising from the production of the 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. In 2007, Weinstein visited the production on location … Continue reading →

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New Hollinghurst Novel Reviewed in Guardian

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Guardian reviewed Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel earlier this week. The review is by Alex Preston and opens with a link to a Waugh novel: Alan Hollinghurst’s sixth novel, The Sparsholt Affair, opens in Oxford during the second world war … Continue reading →

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The Loved One in Gay Hollywood; D&F in the Antipodes

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Intro and “Outro” discussions of the film version of The Loved One from the recent broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel have been posted on YouTube. Appearing are Dave Karger from TCM and writer William J Mann. … Continue reading →

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Half an Hour with Evelyn Waugh

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

One of our readers and a member of the EWS kindly submitted the report below of her recent Waugh-themed visit to Castle Howard in North Yorkshire. Half an Hour with Evelyn Waugh: ‘Brideshead Scenes Revisited’ at Castle Howard by Milena … Continue reading →

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Dutch Newspaper Features Brideshead

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Rotterdam newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (or AD) has published an article about the attitude toward homosexuality in films. The two film adaptations of Brideshead Revisited are used as as a case study of developments over the more than 35 years that separates them. … Continue reading →

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Den of Geek Meets The Loved One

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Yet another article has appeared linking Waugh’s 1947 novel The Loved One with Billy Wilder’s 1950 film Sunset Boulevard. See earlier posts. This is posted on entertainment website Den of Geek and is written by Tony Sokol: Sunset Boulevard‘s cinematographer John … Continue reading →

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The Loved One Among One-Liners

Posted on July 23, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Comedian and journalist Craig Marshall Smith also writes a weblog. A recent offering which is posted on Golden Transcript is devoted mainly to one-liners. Here are some examples: A dung beetle walks into a bar and says, “Is this stool taken?” Julius … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Wales and Fashion

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A recent article in the TLS entitled “Do the Welsh Just Sing?” by Samuel Graydon opens with a quote from Decline and Fall: “The Welsh . . . are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or … Continue reading →

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Waugh Conference at Gerald Brenan House in Malaga

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Gerald Brenan House in Malaga, Spain, has announced a one-day conference on Evelyn Waugh to take place a week from today on Friday 23 June. According to the Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia, the conference will start with a showing of … Continue reading →

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