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Category Archives: Newspapers
USA Premiere of Decline and Fall Today
Acorn-TV is premiering the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall today. All three episodes are available now for streaming, and a free one-week trial is on offer for those who do not already have subscriptions. Here’s the link … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Los Angeles Times, Robert Lloyd
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Decline and Fall in the US Papers
The TV Critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, David Weigand, has written a quite favorable review of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall which will debut tomorrow in the US: Biting wit and a farcically frothy plot make “Decline … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, David Weigand, James Wood, San Francisco Chronicle, Tobias Grey, Wall Street Journal
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Lucy, Paula, Jane and Evelyn
Columnist Jennifer Selway in her Daily Express entertainment gossip column brings Evelyn Waugh into a literary scholarship cat fight between Waugh biographer Paula Byrne, PhD (Liverpool), and BBC historical TV presenter Lucy Worsley, DPhil (Sussex), both of whom have also written … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Express, Jane Austen, Jennifer Selway, Lucy Worsley, Paula Byrne, plagiarism, Private Eye
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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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Joseph Epstein Reviews Waugh
Veteran US essayist, short-story writer and former editor of The American Scholar, Joseph Epstein, has written a review of Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh. This appears in the latest issue of the Claremont Review of Books and is as … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Black Mischief, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Claremont Review of Books, Isaiah Berlin, Joseph Epstein
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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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Shavian and Wavian
In a recent article in the Irish Times, columnist Frank McNally discussed the derivation of adjectival forms for proper names, wondering for example why people in Cork are known as Corkonians rather than Corkians or Corkists. One example he considers … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Frank McNally, George Bernard Shaw, Irish Times, pronunciation
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NY Times Promotes Decline and Fall TV Streaming
In a new New York Times column entitled “Watching” and carried in its online edition, the paper has an article focusing on four new TV streaming services that specialize in bringing programs from European TV networks to US viewers. These services … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, BBC, New York Times
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Promotion Begins for US Broadcast of Decline and Fall
Several internet sites that track TV streaming services have noted Acorn TV’s offering of the BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall. This will begin on May 15. The most interesting is a review on the website TV Equals by P … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Oxford, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, American Spectator, Guardian, TV Equals
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Waugh and George Steer (More)
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has published a feature length story on British correspondent George Steer to mark the 80th anniversary of the attack on Guernica in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Steer, reporting for The Times, is credited with … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Abyssinian War, El Mundo, George Steer, Guernica, The Times
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