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elliemorris.livejournal.com

Has anybody seen the "By Jeeves" musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber? I'm not sure that I saw it mentioned here as I joined the fray rather late, as it is.
I'd have loved to see a Jeeves musical live, especially "Perfect Nonsense" which I once heard being called 'saucy' or something of the sort (a good article here) - but the dates didn't correspond to when I would be able to get away to see it, so I had to drop the idea. :(

You can get the "By Jeeves" musical on DVD, and while I do love it, I have to admit that there is a LOT of crack-y situations that make me roll my eyes; where Florence and Honoria mistook Bertie climbing through their window in a pig mask as a real pig, and the finale where everyone is dressed up as a Wizard of Oz character...

There is one song that I love, called "That was nearly us", a duet between sweet Bertie and Honoria Glossop. You can listen to it on Spotify and YouTube, though I don't have a link to speak of right now. The lyrics are hilarious, as is the more and more feverish and passionate way that Honoria persits despite Bertie's nervousness, and at one point Honoria calls him a "hot-blooded heterosexual"! At this, Bertie sounds perplexed and embarrassed, bless him!
Those two adjectives could certainly be wasted on poor Bertie, and I'm sure Indeed Sir could back me up on that one!
Do you think that was Sir Lloyd Webber employing a little in-joke about Bertie's sexual orientation to his lyrics, or could it be exaggerating Bertie's constant stream of engagements, as some people do interpret him as being a womanizer?

Also, has anybody seen a Jeevesian musical in person? How was it?!

Current Mood: blah
Current Location: England
Current Music: That was nearly us - By Jeeves soundtrack

speakeasying.livejournal.com

I just finished episode four of last year's Blandings TV series, and I was wondering if anyone else has watched it, and if so, what they thought? The more I see, the more I enjoy it, but it doesn't really live up to what I want from Wodehouse on screen. I'm used to, idk, tighter scripts? Tighter overall production? This feels somewhat sloppy. But it's still quite fun, and it's only three hours overall, so I don't regret the time expended in watching it at all.

I also got my hands on the 2004 Piccadilly Jim, and holy crap, did anyone else watch that film, because it was awful. The more I watched the more it was like being bludgeoned in the head with a two-by-four very, very slowly. Are any of the previous adaptations any better, or should I steer clear of them, too?

wotwotleigh.livejournal.com

So I finally saw It, the iconic Clara Bow movie. If you're not familiar with it, it's about a working-class girl falling in love with a wealthy young man, Cyrus, who runs the department store where she works.

Anyway, pretty early in the movie, this guy shows up. He's Cyrus' best friend, Monty -- an elegantly dressed, incredibly goofy but good-hearted British chap. We're told pretty early on that he doesn't work, although he does take an amiable interest in his friend's job. He's tall, slim and sharply dressed, but sports a highly inadvisable mustache. He ineptly woos girls who are totally unsuitable for him (including Betty, the "it" girl herself).

At one point, wacky hijinks lead Monty and Cyrus to believe that Betty is a *gasp* single mother. Cyrus is really a dick about it, but Monty -- although shocked and distraught at first -- is quick to "forgive" her and continue their friendship. And ultimately, even though he has a hard-core crush on Betty, he helps bring her and Cyrus together (in his bumbling way) when he realizes how much Betty loves Cyrus.

It's . . . it's Bertie, in his pre-Jeeves days! He's hanging around in New York trying to help his friends out of romantic scrapes and making bad decisions about facial hair and girls (he even shows an interest in Cyrus' Florence Craye-like jilted girlfriend at the end)! Even his dialogue is Bertie-esque ("You've got 'It', old fruit!").

Here's a better picture of the actor, William Austin. Again with the terrible mustache, although it looked worse in the movie. XD Note the striking blue eyes.

Current Mood: amused

erynn999.livejournal.com

I saw a reference from someone yesterday to a novel/movie Breakfast on Pluto, about an Irish trans woman. I'd never heard of it before and so I went looking for a little info, and what should I find but this gem:

Pussy's politician lover in the novel becomes a glam rock musician played by Gavin Friday with whom Kitten may or may not have had a sexual relationship, and Pussy's lover Bertie Wooster becomes magician Bertie Vaughan (Stephen Rea), with whom Kitten has an unrequited flirtation. Liam Neeson plays the priest that Braden believes is her biological father, a character renamed Father Liam, although a number of reviews erroneously call him Father Bernard, as in the book.

And I wondered why Jeeves hadn't stepped in and scooped up the young master for his own already.

triedunture.livejournal.com

It's Amazon's deal of the day: $20.99. Pretty good deal if you haven't gotten it yet!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27

And I saw this floating around. Some footage from a typical 1930s English beach holiday. Thought you might enjoy, chaps!

walkinghouses.livejournal.com

What ho, all!

I was looking at the cast list for the 2010 release of Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, and found that Stephen Fry is cast as the Chesire Cat. I can't wait to see that!

*banishes the plot bunnies* (Aunt Agatha as the Red Queen though...)

grumpymo.livejournal.com

Well, well, well...I've been lurking here for about a year now and figured it was time to say hello and thanks for all great fiction to read, the art to look at and the people to watch from my cosy armchair in the less well lit part of the clubroom. Today I stumbled upon this weird little thing while wasting time online:

In case anyone has read Moab I can only add "get into the Carmichael car Michael Carmichael"

Current Mood: awake

dessieoctavia.livejournal.com

I thought it would be of interest to those of you with Netflix memberships to know that recently, Netflix got two of the old movies starring Arthur Treacher as Jeeves.

Both movies are on the same disk. I will say right off that Fry & Laurie remain the definitive J&W, but Thank you, Jeeves is definitely worth watching. David Niven upholds the code of the Woosters as Bertie. The movie opens with him spiritedly playing the drums just like the Bertie we all know and love. Treacher has several wonderfully dry Jeevesian lines.

I recommend skipping the other movie. Bertie isn't in it, and as the central premise of the movie, Jeeves does something stupid. OOC much?

Also, there are short features about Plum's life, though I'm sure it's old news to a lot of you.

P.S. Long as I'm posting, I've been waiting for a chance to bring this comm's attention to some fics that I really think are of interest. Not fanfiction, but fiction about fanfic writers. They're at

mina_de_malfois. Arc and Mina, the two lead characters, closely and intentionally resemble Jeeves and Wooster. The style is also fairly Woodhousian, and the stories are demmed good.

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