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- Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:16:23 GMT
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- i'm glad to see this newsgroup at last.
-
- Chris Meadows (cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- :
- : Well, what I'm writing this post for is to mention the superb adap-
- : tations of Wodehouse's Jeeves stories that are currently being shown
- : on Masterpiece Theatre. Starring Steven Fry as Jeeves, and Hugh
-
- unfortunately, i do not share your enthusiasm for this series. i found
- it boring, badly acted out and not funny at all. perhaps when i read
- jeeves and bertie stories i conjure up an image of these two guys,
- their expressions, their actions, etc., and they are certainly more
- rib-tickling than this disappointing series. this is not to say my
- perception is better, but only to say that the books are so much more
- hilarious.
-
- : Laurie as Bertie Wooster, this is one of the most comically irre-
- : sistable shows I have ever seen. Both Fry and Laurie play their
- : parts to the hilt, Hugh Laurie especially. He is so incredibly
- : apt at expressions, especially those of horror when he inadvertantly
- : encounters the dreaded Aunt Agatha. And he plays the piano and
- : sings exactly the way I would have imagined Bertie Wooster to do so.
- :
- : --
- : Chris Meadows | Robotech/RIFTS/Palladium fanfic author/editor
- : CHM173S@SMSVMA | They Might Be Giants about Star Trek aliens:
- : CHM173S@VMA.SMSU.EDU | "Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads
- : CMEADOWS@NYX.CS.DU.EDU | on their real heads!"
- -b.
- --
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