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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Waugh in Sitcom Punchline
In the latest episode of the ITV sitcom Vicious, starring Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as a elderly gay couple, Evelyn Waugh makes an appearance. In this episode (No. 4 of the current series) the couple are contemplating marriage after being together for … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged Derek Jacobi, Ian Mckellen, ITV, Vicious
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Candace Bushnell, Waugh Fan
U.S. novelist Candace Bushnell is the featured writer in this week’s By the Book column in the New York Times Book Review. She is best known for Sex and the City which was a collection of her columns from The New York Observer … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust
Tagged Candace Bushnell, New York Times Book Review
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Waugh Among the Bohemians
The BBC is currently running a cultural documentary entitled How to be a Bohemian. It is presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell and is broadcast on Monday nights over the BBC4 channel. The first episode traced the history of artistic “bohemians” from … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Film, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC, How to be a Bohemian, Stephan Tennant, Stephen Fry, Victoria Coren Mitchell
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Robert Byron, Dangerous Lunatic
The latest edition of the Australian Financial Review contains a story by Nick Hordern about Robert Byron, an outstanding British travel writer of the 1930s. The focus of the article is Byron’s book The Road to Oxiana which several critics have acclaimed … Continue reading
Posted in Letters
Tagged Australian Financial Review, Harold Acton, Nick Hordern, Robert Byron
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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
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Cressida Connolly, Funeral Directors, Jessica Mitford, Spectator, The American Way of Death
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The Loved One Among Top 10 Hollywood Novels
In the latest Publishers Weekly, The Loved One is named among the top 10 Hollywood novels. The list is made up by Michael Friedman whose own Hollywood novel, Martian Dawn (2006), has just been reprinted together with two previously unpublished novels, … Continue reading
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Hollywood, Martin Amis, Publishers Weekly
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Another Brideshead Birthday Greeting
Today’s Daily Telegraph carries another article by Eleanor Doughty marking the 70th anniversary of Brideshead Revisited‘s publication on May 28, 1945. The article begins by discussing models used by Waugh for characters in the novel, breaking no new ground in … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Derek Granger, Eleanor Doughty, Harry mount
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Lord Marchmain and the 7th Earl
The Guardian earlier this week ran a review of a book by Michael Bloch entitled Closet Queens. This is a history of homosexuals in English politics before 1967 when the criminality of homosexuality was ended. One of the lives considered … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Anthony Powell, Guardian, Lord Marchmain, Michael Bloch, William Lygon
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Naming Characters: Waugh and Fleming
In an article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, Christopher Howse compares the practice of Ian Fleming and Evelyn Waugh to use the names of real persons as characters in their works: “There’s nowt so queer as names.” In Fleming’s James Bond novels, Howse cites … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Conferences, Mr. Loveday's Little Outing, Work Suspended
Tagged BBC, C.R.M.F. Cruttwell, Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph, Donat Gallagher, Ian Fleming
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