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Category Archives: Adaptations
Unloved in LA
William Cash has written a feature length article in the Catholic Herald that provides some new insights into Evelyn Waugh’s 1947 trip to Hollywood. The trip combined an effort to agree film rights with MGM for Brideshead Revisited as well … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Catholic Herald, MGM Studios, William Cash
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John le Carré (David Cornwell): 1931-2020 R.I.P.
Novelist John le Carré died last week at the age of 89. Best known for his novels about spies, espionage and governmental bureaucratic intrigue, le Carre’s work would seem to have little in common with that of Evelyn Waugh. Spies … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Guardian, John le Carre, Mark Lawson
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Pearl Harbor Day Roundup
–According to a report in The Times, the Tate Britain is considering the future of Rex Whistler’s well-known mural that decorates the walls of its restaurant: A mural in Tate Britain’s restaurant depicting two enslaved black children has been described … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alec Waugh, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Robbery Under Law, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One
Tagged Arthur Calder-Marshall, Gentleman's Journal, Guardian, Jeremy Paxman, The Millions, The Times
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Remembrance Sunday/Armistice Day Roundup
–In another article about the proposed new Brideshead TV series, Alexander Larman wonders whether there might not be more deserving works of Waugh for adaptation. This is published in the latest issue of The Critic. After noting that it will … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Billy Wilder, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Jonathan Coe, New Criterion, Night and Day, Sydney Morning Herald, The Critic
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Deal on New Brideshead Series Reported Imminent
It has been reported in the Daily Mail, Radio Times and Deadline that a deal on a new Brideshead Revisited TV series by the BBC and HBO is imminent. Here’s the story as reported in Tatler: 2020 marks the 75th … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Baz Bambigboye, BBC, Daily Mail, Tatler
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Roundup: Censorship and Adaptation
–There has been a colloquy in the provincial British press about racist language in Evelyn Waugh’s 1932 novel Black Mischief. This was begun in an article or letter by Michael O’Neill of Penarth that was reproduced from the Western Mail. … Continue reading
Castle Howard Exhibition: Brideshead Revisited at 75
The Castle Howard website features a fully and handsomely illustrated exhibition of photos from the two film adaptations of Brideshead Revisited and other related sources. This illustrates in part how the two adaptations are similar in some respects and how … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Television
Tagged Brideshead Revisited at 75, Castle Howard
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Ronald Harwood (1934-2020) R I P
The Daily Telegraph has an obituary of Ronald Harwood, noted primarily as a writer of screenplays based on adaptations of novels or plays. These adaptations include such well-received films as the Oscar-winning The Pianist (2003), One Day in the Life … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Film, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Theater
Tagged Ronald Harwood, The Daily Telegraph, The Times
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Roundup: Agony Aunts and Metroland
–In the Daily Telegraph, Rowan Pelling muses over whether novelists would make good advice to the lovelorn “agony aunts”. Pelling has always thought Edith Wharton would be excellent and notes that Simone de Beauvoir and Anaïs Nin in fact functioned … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Film, Interviews, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, The Times, The Wanderer
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