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Tag Archives: Forest Lawn
“The Loved One” Features in Two Events
The 1965 film adaptation of The Loved One will be presented next week at an event in New York City. The presenter is musician Fred Schneider, singer with a group called The B-52s. As described in The Asbury (NJ) Press: … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Forest Lawn, Fred Schneider, The Asbury (NJ) Press, The Los Angeles County Museum
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Dog Days Roundup: 18 August 2020
–Writing in a recent issue of the Daily Telegraph, literary journalist Jane Shilling bemoans the early reaction of the publishing industry to the coronavirus lockdown. In a period when reading and cooking were two of the activities the “lockdownees” could … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Country Life, Daily Telegraph, Errol Flynn, Forest Lawn, Observer, Russell Shaw, Tom Paxton
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Curbed @ Forest Lawn
The real estate blog network, Curbed, has issued its latest Pocket Guide to Los Angeles. This may be of interest to those of you planning to attend the Evelyn Waugh Conference next spring at the Huntington Library near Pasadena. The … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Conferences, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Curbed Pocket Guide to Los Angeles, Forest Lawn
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Death in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Magazine has recently republished a 2011 article by Ben Ehrenreich which has “Death in L.A.” forming part of its subtitle. That is not far off the title of the German translation for Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One (Tod in Hollywood). Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ben Ehrenreich, Forest Lawn, Jessica Mitford, Los Angeles Magazine
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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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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
Posted in The Loved One
Tagged Argonaut (L.A.), BBC, Dr Who, Forest Lawn, Mike Salisbury, Tardis Musings
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