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Category Archives: The Loved One
Waugh-Era Map of “Whispering Glades” on Internet
Los Angeles Magazine has republished a 1950 tourist map of Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, CA from the collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. This was Whispering Glades in Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One. A brief history of … Continue reading
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Tagged Forest Lawn, Los Angeles Magazine
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NYPL Marks Waugh’s Birthday
The New York Public Library has marked Evelyn Waugh’s upcoming birthday (28 October 1903) with an essay on The Loved One which also compares the Hollywood novels of other writers. The essay is by Meredith Mann who works in the library’s Collection … Continue reading
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Tagged Hollywood novel, New York Public Library
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Tab Hunter and The Loved One
A Houston blogger (Joe Leydon) has posted a story in which he explains how the career of veteran film star Tab Hunter (whom he met at at Houston conference earlier this year) was saved by a role in the film of Waugh’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Tab Hunter
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Whispering Glades and Tranquil Repose
The Argonaut, a regional newspaper covering the west side of Los Angeles, has published an interview with art director Mike Salisbury who has worked in film, broadcast and print media and lives in Venice, CA. The interviewer gets a rise out … Continue reading
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Tagged Argonaut (L.A.), BBC, Dr Who, Forest Lawn, Mike Salisbury, Tardis Musings
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Review of The Loved One DVD
A Connecticut-based newspaper weblog contains a feature-length article that is essentially a review of the DVD of the 1965 film based on Waugh’s novella, The Loved One (1948). The review concludes that the film begins well with the early scenes satirizing … Continue reading
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Tagged Mischief in the Sun, Robert Murray Davis
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Independent Includes Waugh Novel in Weekend Reads
The Independent newspaper has published a list of its top 23 recommendations for a book to be read conveniently in a single weekend. It has included Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in its selections. This seems odd, given that it is one of … Continue reading
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Waugh and Psychedelia
This week’s Spectator reviews a book by Rob Chapman about the history of psychedelic drugs. The title is Psychedelia and Other Colours . The book includes a consideration of the contribution made by novelist Aldous Huxley to the popularization of drugs … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay, Psychedelic Drugs, The Spectator magazine
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Mrs. Melrose Ape in China
The South China Morning Post recently ran a story by Jason Wordie about the activities in China of the American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson . While best known for her Angelus Temple of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Los Angeles, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimee Semple McPherson, Foursquare Gospel Church, South China Morning Post
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Funeral Directors Revisited
This week’s Spectator carries an article by Cressida Connolly (daughter of Waugh’s friend Cyril Connolly) urging that the negativity usually directed towards funeral directors be reassessed. They have a hard job to to that should be more appreciated. She traces … Continue reading
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Tagged Cressida Connolly, Funeral Directors, Jessica Mitford, Spectator, The American Way of Death
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