Word: maughamism
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...Consul's File, the author returns to Malaysia where, among other things, he attempts to bury a romantic genre made popular by W. Somerset Maugham. Theroux has small patience for old Willie. Nailing one aging expatriate who spent most of his life drinking at the local white man's club, Theroux's mouthpiece observes that "he had failed at being a person, so he tried to succeed at being a character-someone out of Maugham. What tedious eccentricity Maugham was responsible for! He made heroes of these timeservers; he glorified them by being selective and leaving...
...forthcoming thriller The Honourable Schoolboy-a literary agent who observes that "nobody's brought off the Eastern novel recently, my view. Greene managed it, if you can take Greene, which I can't - too much popery. Malraux, if you like philosophy, which I don't. Maugham you can have, and before that it's back to Conrad...
...right," she says. "When they're blocking out the movements, I'm still struggling with the script." Her efforts have paid off. The series has enabled Hampshire to get prime parts in the theater, her first love. She is concluding a West End run in Somerset Maugham's The Circle...
When it comes to the stage, Ingrid Bergman dotes on second-rate plays. In recent years she has appeared in inferior O'Neill (More Stately Mansions), hand-me-down Shaw (Captain Brassbound's Conversion), and now in fossilized Maugham. Bergman has treated each of these dilapidated vehicles as if it were the Queen's own royal barouche wheeling through the gates of Buckingham Palace. Indeed, Elizabeth II would not fault Bergman's acting technique-a tilt of the head, a flash of a smile and the wave of a hand...
...becalmed drama stirs fitfully with a few clever lines, but only one member of the cast, Brenda Forbes, as Constance's mother, delivers those with any style. Since Maugham wrote the play, half a century has passed, and passed it sadly...