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...lavish British series mirrors Evelyn Waugh, faults...
...book by one of the century's oddest writers, and even he had serious reservations about it. "I reread Brideshead and was appalled," he wrote Graham Greene in 1950, five years after publication. But Brideshead Revisited, overwritten and underplotted, is and probably will remain Evelyn Waugh's best-known and most popular novel, a lush, sentimental tribute to Catholicism and to the period between the wars that Waugh regarded as the last gorgeous days of the British aristocracy. Now, in this lavish and beautiful eleven-part series from Britain's Granada Television, U.S. viewers will be able...
Probably never before, in fact, has a novel been so faithfully adapted. John Mortimer's script preserves big chunks of Waugh's narrative prose in addition to his dialogue. "We went for the book whole," says Producer Derek Granger. "We were true to its faults as well as its virtues, but the faults-the over luxuriance, for instance-are also rather appealing. Waugh wrote it during a very bleak period of World War II, and he looked back to his days in Oxford as golden, halcyon." The most expensive TV production ever to come from Britain (about...
DIED. Alec Waugh, 83, author of more than 50 novels (A Spy in the Family), biographies (The Lipton Story) and travel books (The Sugar Islands) who labored for years in the shadow of his better-known brother Evelyn, until the publication in 1956 of his bestselling yarn of interracial love and intrigue in the Caribbean, Island in the Sun; in Tampa...
Langguth wastes little time trying to decide whether Saki was a literary butterfly who finally tried to stamp or some kind of shrike with a sense of humor. The book notes the Waugh-like gift for comic names (Loona Bimberton, Septimus Brope), the Wildean wit, the Wodehousean way with the featherheaded fauna of the West End and the country house party, the surprise endings self-consciously borrowed from O'Henry...