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...Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Michael Winterbottom Warning to college students: Don't rent this movie as video Cliffs Notes for that Laurence Sterne "classic" you have no intention of reading. Do rent it to see what happened to Brit humor after Monty Python. TV eminences Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon star in this postmodernist jape, which keeps interrupting the novel's tale to focus on the offscreen agitations of the cast. Since the Coogan-Brydon banter gave the film much of its brio, their very funny commentary on the DVD amounts to a second deconstruction...
Director Michael Winterbottom’s (“Wonderland”) new film is an adaptation of an eighteenth century British novel, apparently well-known for being un-filmable. The novel is ostensibly Tristam telling his own life story, but he takes so many detours that the novel actually ends with his birth...
...answering F. Scott Fitzgerald's advice to write more like Gustave (Madame Bovary) Flaubert, who "has consciously left out the stuff that Bill or Joe ... will come along and say presently." Snarled Wolfe: "Just remember that although Madame Bovary in your opinion may be a great book, Tristam Shandy is indubitably a great book because it boils and pours ... A great writer is not only a leaver-outer but also a putter-inner, and Shakespeare and Cervantes and Dostoievsky were great putter-inners and will be remembered for what they put in ... as long as Monsieur Flaubert will...
...Tristam Burges Souther '04, of Essex Fells, N. J., died suddenly following a game of hockey on Verona Lake near Montclair, N. J., on the afternoon of December 31. Overexertion in a strenuous game which he played is believed to be the cause of the sudden illness which caused his death. He was 32 years of age and is survived by a widow and one child...
...think it of the pedant to be event referring to first causes and fundamental principles, yet we cannot help remarking that the secret of Mr. Power success as an actor lies in his belonging to the noble and illustrious family of buffoons, of his being of Rabelais Tristam Shandy and Till Eulensprege...