Like he's trying—and failing—to sound like Otter from "Animal House".
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Only if you have a partner who doesn't want to leave. The simple solution to JBF leaving was to ship them off to Ireland and leave them there, but Lord F is too much an actor to cut loose Allan Leech if he's willing to stay.
"I'm wooking!"
JF said he realized that when he saw Lesley's way with the part in the first season, and wrote it that way ever after.
What makes it hilarious is the way she wilts whenever she goes upstairs.
I think they all knew; they just didn't make a big deal of it. Their circumlocutions were a delight.
It's a Sunday night serial, which in the UK tend to be a bit less harsh than the weekly fare. You want unsympathetic, try his novel "Snobs". The protagonist is a modern Becky Sharp, but with in-laws who are exactly on to her.
Yes, at the wedding, where he and Edith look like two kids at the Junior Prom.
Actually, he'd be older than this chap:
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Get a room, you two.
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Barrow sees an old clock in an antique shop in York much like the ones his father made. He look at the works and give it a wind, and the gentleman who owns the shop says gently "I see you have a hand for clocks. . . "
Yes. As soon as word got out, he would have been like Pierre Bezukhov, with all the mamas dragging their hothouse roses in front of him—and he'd only remember the girl who liked him when he was just plain Bertie.
We were all cheated of a "Hewwo Mr. Bawwow".
Gregson and Patrick Gordon, up in the choir loft, crying EDITH! EDITH!
It shows that he's got a life and friends of his own, that he's not just an appendage being grafted onto the Crawleys.
Good points, but all those army entitlements were options. Bertie seems quiet and self-effacing, and wouldn't put on the dog for a quiet village wedding.
Roald Dahl wrote about pompous types who used their military titles long after they'd returned to civilian life; he could have done the same and didn't.
And "Bertie"…
Always keep extra batteries for the remote. That way you can always change the channel without getting up off the couch.
An ordinary man who's One Bad Day from supervillainy . . . every time that happens, Alan Moore gets his wings.
The fact is that if you were discrete and didn't hang out in parks or public men's rooms after dark, it was very possible to live in a place like London as a gay man at this time.
Start with Stephen Tennant and click on the cross references.