Thursday's Quote of the Day
09:29 UK time, Thursday, 15 May 2008
"If you were to take out the teddy bear it would be an outrage to Evelyn Waugh" - Sir John Mortimer on rumours that Brideshead movie is excising Aloysius.
As Hollywood gets its paws on Evelyn Waugh's classic novel Brideshead Revisited, the rumours are that it will be a less than faithful recreation of the original... or indeed the ITV dramatisation from the 1980s. Sir John Mortimer has been acting as a cipher for the sceptics of Tinseltown's interpretation, noting fears that the film version will downplay the themes of God and homosexuality, and, horror or horrors, ditch Aloysius the bear.
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