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Category Archives: Adaptations
Den of Geek Meets The Loved One
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
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Billy Wilder, Den of Geek, Sunset Boulevard, Tony Sokol
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Latest Evelyn Waugh Studies Available
The latest issue of the society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been issued. This is No. 48.1 (Spring 2017) and is available at this link. The contents are set out below: ARTICLES Et in Chatsworth Ego? by Peter J. Comerford Guy’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Ann Pastrnak Slater, Elizabeth Bowen, Nicolas Poussin, Peter J Comerford, Robert Murray Davis
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Play About Sonia Orwell Opens in London
Domenic Cavendish writing in the Daily Telegraph reviews a play entitled “Mrs Orwell” that opened recently in London. This is about Sonia Orwell, the secretary at Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine who married George Orwell a few weeks before his death. There … Continue reading
Posted in London, Newspapers, Theater, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Domenic Cavendish, Sonia Orwell
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The Loved One Among One-Liners
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
Posted in Adaptations, Film, The Loved One
Tagged "Must See" films, Craig Marshall Smith, Danny Peary, One-Liners
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Screen Credit Blues
The Irish Times has a story by Donald Clarke about the dissatisfaction of screen writer Neil Jordan with the final versions of the TV series Riviera episodes now running on Sky TV. According to the IT story, the final versions reflect … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs, The Loved One
Tagged Irish Times, John Mortimer, Neil Jordan, Riviera, Turner Classic Movies
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Decline and Fall to be Shown in Overseas Markets
BBC First has announced that it will screen its recent adaptation of Decline and Fall in several overseas markets beginning in August. The announcement appears in online TV listing service TVTonite. BBC First is a TV subscription service which operates in markets … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Television
Tagged BBC First
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Waugh and Wales and Fashion
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
Posted in Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Wales
Tagged Alice Vincent, Charles James, Daily Telegraph, Samuel Graydon, TLS, Welsh literature, Wikipedia
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Waugh Conference at Gerald Brenan House in Malaga
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
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Sword of Honour
Tagged Carlos Villar Flor, Gerald Brenan House, La Vanguardia, Malaga
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Waugh Cited in Descriptions of Tory Meeting
Several news sources are quoting an unnamed Conservative MP who compared the recent meeting of the Party’s Parliamentary membership to a scene written by Evelyn Waugh. Sky News, for example, put it this way: In a scene one MP described as … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television
Tagged BuzzFeed News, Conservative Parliamentary Party, Sky News
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Stephen Fry Film Compared to Waugh
The Daily Mirror in a review of the film adaptation of Stephen Fry’s 1994 novel The Hippopotamus describe it as a “mildly successful hybrid of a film noir detective story and the novels of Evelyn Waugh.” They don’t much like what … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Television, Vile Bodies
Tagged Acorn TV, Anglotopia.net, Artforum, Daily Mirror, Ernst Lubitsch, Stephen Fry
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