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The Loved One is a 1965 black-and-white black comedy film directed by British filmmaker Tony Richardson.A satirical look at the funeral business in Los Angeles, it is based on Evelyn Waugh's 1948 short novel The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, though the screenplay by noted American satirical novelist Terry Southern and British author Christopher Isherwood also incorporates elements from ...
The book was adapted in 1965 by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood into a film of the same title, which features, while adding to the novel's plot with new characters and scenes, many in-joke cameos and familiar California filming locations such as the Greystone Mansion. Isherwood himself can be glimpsed within the film as one of 'Uncle ...
"The Loved One" (song), a 1966 song by the Australian band; The Loved Ones (American band), a Philadelphia rock band The Loved Ones, a 2005 EP by the American band; Loved Ones, a 1996 album by Ellis Marsalis and Branford Marsalis "The Loved Ones", a 1982 song by Elvis Costello and the Attractions from Imperial Bedroom
The Sword of Honour is a trilogy of novels by Evelyn Waugh which loosely parallel Waugh's experiences during the Second World War.Published by Chapman & Hall from 1952 to 1961, the novels are: Men at Arms (1952); Officers and Gentlemen (1955); and Unconditional Surrender (1961), marketed as The End of the Battle in the United States and Canada.
(Waugh may have based the character of Ludovic on one or two real people: the soldier of fortune and novelist John Lodwick, [1] and/or the future press tycoon and politician Robert Maxwell. [citation needed]) In the final stages of the evacuation, they escape with a few others in a small boat, but run out of fuel. The sapper Captain in command ...
Christopher Hitchens, introducing the 2000 Penguin Classics edition of Scoop, said "[i]n the pages of Scoop we encounter Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch; youthful and limber and light as a feather" and noted: "The manners and mores of the press, are the recurrent motif of the book and the chief reason for its enduring magic...this world of callousness and vulgarity and ...
Christopher Isherwood. Isherwood originally intended to call this novel The Lost, a title he conceived in German, Die Verlorenen.The title The Lost would have encompassed three different meanings: "those who have lost their way", by which he meant Germans who were being misled by Adolf Hitler; "the doomed", those like the character Bernard Landauer whom Hitler had already marked for ...
Tom Jones is a 1963 British period comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic 1749 novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.It is directed by Tony Richardson from a screenplay written by John Osborne, and stars Albert Finney as the titular character.