Word: brideshead
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...contains all the elements of an effective period romance. And yet the film—which centers on the burgeoning love between Romantic poet John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne—proves disappointing, permanently handicapped by its lack of dramatic tension. Ben Whishaw (“Brideshead Revisited”) and Abbie Cornish (“Stop-Loss”) are wholly convincing as the movie’s tragic couple, but that is in some ways precisely the problem. Their strong bond is never counterbalanced by a force of sufficient magnitude which could plausibly stifle it. Because...
...Lord Sebastian Flyte might well have sniffed at the thought of tourists tramping across quadrangles and up worn oak staircases - and his creator Evelyn Waugh undoubtedly so - but with accommodation from just $58 a night, it's an attractive prospect for travelers looking for their own little slice of Brideshead Revisited. It certainly beats paying over the odds for a city-center hotel room or ending up in some suburban...
...alter-ego The Comedian in a series of flashbacks. Several other cast members invoke their characters with the appropriate panache and emotional range, notably Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan and Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg, the former Nite Owl II.The casting of British actor Matthew Goode (“Brideshead Revisited”) as Adrian Veidt—the billionaire who profits off his former life as Ozymandias, the smartest, quickest man alive—unnecessarily worried the novel’s fanbase. The slightly effeminate Goode is not the obvious choice to play the square-jawed super-athlete...
...George Lucas, from Rowling to Meyer, the fun is in creating the laws, folkways and architecture of the alternative universe that its more fanciful characters inhabit. The Cullens are a fastidious family of vampires; in their tennis whites, with their regal airs, they resemble the aristocratic Flyte brood in Brideshead Revisited. They call themselves vegetarians because they drink the blood of animals, not people. They can fly, move with lightning speed, scale trees in a trice. They also play baseball, which in the Cullen clan is a lot like Rowling's Quidditch. Their ball-playing, and the scent of human...
...ultra-exclusive ranks by invitation only. At his Bullingdon debut, Worth, wearing the distinctive tailcoat with ivory lapels that is required for all Bullingdon functions, caught a boat to Cliveden, a stately home turned luxury hotel. It was on board that he encountered Cameron. "There was a surreal Brideshead Regurgitated quality to the evening," says Worth, who went on to become a consultant and speechwriter for several heads of state. "I remember David quoting Winston Churchill extensively by memory - Churchill was a bit of a lush, so they were quotes about drinking - and he was very funny. A few people...