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Category Archives: The Loved One
Betjeman Play in West End
The one-man play with Edward Fox portraying John Betjeman (“Sand in the Sandwiches”) opened its brief West End performance earlier this week at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. The play premiered earlier this year in Oxford. See previous post. It is reviewed … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One, Theater
Tagged Guardian, John Betjeman, Out magazine, Sunday Express, Turner Classic Films
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Sunset Boulevard and The Loved One (More)
Another classic film blogger has posted an article noting, inter alia, the debt owed by Billy Wilder’s 1956 film Sunset Boulevard to Waugh’s novel The Loved One. (See previous posts.): The British author’s satirical The Loved One was published in 1948, after Waugh … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
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More Publicity for Decline and Fall US TV Debut
The New York Times TV critic Neil Genzlinger has written a short preview of the TV adaptation of Decline and Fall that will premiere via online streaming Monday on Acorn TV: Nobody does waggishness like the British, a skill on full … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, Nick Harris, San Diego Free Press
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Happy Hunting Ground Updated
An article in a Mexican newspaper alludes to Waugh’s novel The Loved One. The article is about the cloning of pets and opens with this: In The Loved One , one of his lesser-known novels – though caustic and scathing like … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged BIOCAN, Cloning, La Prensa de Monclova, Rafael Toriz
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Decline and Fall Profiled in Independent
The Independent newspaper (still publishing online) has profiled the BBC’s upcoming production of Waugh’s Decline and Fall. The article is written by Gerard Gilbert and contains much of the same material from cast and crew interviews as that appearing in the other … Continue reading
D J Taylor Anticipates New TV Adaptation in Guardian
Critic and novelist D J Taylor has written an article expressing somewhat nervous anticipation in advance of next week’s premier of BBC’s three-episode version of Decline and Fall. It appears in the Guardian and is entitled “Would Evelyn Waugh have approved of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, D.J.Taylor, Guardian, James Wood
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The Loved One is Prescribed Reading for Europeans
Writing in his Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung blog, “Don Alphonso” informs his European readers that they cannot understand what is going on in the United States today unless they have first read Waugh’s 1948 novella The Loved One (in German translated as Tod … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Don Alphonso, FAZ, Laurie Penny, Milo Yiannopoulos
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Waugh Topic of Lecture and Preview
This month will see Waugh’s biographer Martin Stannard lecture in Oxford and the BBC’s film of Decline and Fall previewed in Cardiff: Campion Hall in Oxford will host a lecture by Prof Martin Stannard entitled “No Abiding City: Evelyn Waugh and America”. Stannard, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Oxford, Television, The Loved One, Wales
Tagged Anthony Burgess Society, BBC, Campion Hall, Martin Stannard
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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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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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