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Category Archives: Film
Guardian Includes The Loved One in Top 10 Hollywood Novels
The Guardian in this week’s “Top 10” books column considers books about Hollywood. Evelyn Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One is among those selected by Tim Walker who has himself just finished his own contribution to the genre (Smoke Over Malibu). … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Greg Sheridan, Guardian, The Australian, Tim Weeks
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Waugh in the News
Several papers have alluded to Evelyn Waugh or his works in recent stories: The Irish Times has an article in its “London Letter” column inspired by an interview with David Hockney in which the artist expressed his acquiescence in if not outrught support … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bild, Brexit, Daily Telegraph, Gay Times, Guardian, Irish Times
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In the Beginning was the Waugh
Journalists and bloggers are making a practice of opening stories with quotes from or cites to the works of Evelyn Waugh. Here are two notable recent examples: The Guardian in a story about today’s match between England and Wales in … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, The Loved One, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged A Reality-Based Community, Guardian, Six Nations tournament, W H Auden
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Brideshead and Silence
Japanese author Shusaku Endo, a Roman Catholic, wrote a novel entitled Silence (1966) that has recently been adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese. The book seems generally to be considered Endo’s masterpiece. The story is about Jesuit missionaries sent out in the 16th century … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Graham Greene, Martin Scorsese, Shusaku Endo, Silence, The Christian Review, The Power and the Glory, The Tablet
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Brideshead in the News: Charles, Sebastian and Celia
Jeremy Irons who portrayed Charles Ryder in the 1981 TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited was recently appointed Chancellor of Bath Spa University. He is the first person to occupy that position and was interviewed by Times Higher Education (THE) last month: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Film, Lancing, Oxford, Television
Tagged Afar Magazine, Bath Spa University, BBC, Christmas blues, Emma John, Fr Angelo Geiger, Jeremy Irons, Queen Mary 2
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Party Time: Vile Bodies and Bruno Hat
The anticipation of New Year’s Eve parties inspired media references to Vile Bodies. In an entertainment news blog (Salon.com), several memorable party scenes from films were recalled. The opening scene from Stephen Fry’s film adaptation of the novel (retitled as Bright … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Film, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Bruno Hat, Jot101, Patrick Balfour, Salon.com, Tages-Anzeiger
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Brideshead Reconfectioned
The Daily Mail has run a story (“It’s the Great Brideshead Bake Off!”) about a project by the new occupants of Castle Howard to remake the building in the form of a cake in an effort to promote Christmas season … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Castle Howard, Daily Mail
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Death Announced of Wodehouse Society Founder
Lt-Col Norman Murphy, who founded the British branch of the P G Wodehouse Society, has died at the age of 83. According to the Telegraph, Murphy was a literary sleuth whose researches over four decades showed that Wodehouse’s 98 comic … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Norman Murphy, P G Wodehouse Society, Telegraph, Times
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Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green and Terry Southern
In the latest issue of the New Yorker, there is an interesting article (“The Novelist of Human Unknowability”) about Henry Green written by London-based literary critic Leo Robson. The article is built around the friendship between Green and US writer Terry … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Film, Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Henry Green, Leo Robson, New Yorker, Paris Review, Terry Southern
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Curbed @ Forest Lawn
The real estate blog network, Curbed, has issued its latest Pocket Guide to Los Angeles. This may be of interest to those of you planning to attend the Evelyn Waugh Conference next spring at the Huntington Library near Pasadena. The … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Conferences, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Curbed Pocket Guide to Los Angeles, Forest Lawn
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