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PatH · « **Reply #2600 on:** January 09, 2012, 09:12:58 PM »

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PatH · « **Reply #2601 on:** January 09, 2012, 09:13:46 PM »

It's Gary Oldman, and he seems to have done quite a good job. Firth plays Bill Haydon.

Oldman seems to be a bit of a chameleon too. I've seen him as Sirius Black in the Harry Potter movies and the evil Zorg in The Fifth Element, and he's had a variety of other roles.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2602 on:** January 09, 2012, 11:11:30 PM »

Really? I could never place a face with the Gary Oldman. As many times as I've watched The Fifth Element(just last night, as a matter of fact), I never paid much attention who played what. How about that. Gosh, I love that movie.

PatH · « **Reply #2603 on:** January 10, 2012, 12:41:42 AM »

It is a good movie, isn't it? And indeed, Oldman isn't recognizable. I only realized it was him a few years ago when I looked him up.

roshanarose · « **Reply #2604 on:** January 10, 2012, 10:35:21 AM »

Puts hand up - I loved "The Fifth Element" as well. Gary Oldman was the best part of the most recent?? "Dracula" interpretation. If you will pardon the pun - he nailed it! He was also marvellous in Leon: The Professional with Jean Reno and Natalie Portman. So many good movies. It is an experience in itself to recall them - don't you think?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2605 on:** January 10, 2012, 03:16:08 PM »

Sorry, I am running a bit late.

Author: 19th century writer

Book: Although it isn't the author's first manuscript, it is the first one published.

Character: Caught between romantic ideals and the reality of living in the country

JoanK · « **Reply #2606 on:** January 10, 2012, 03:43:33 PM »

The old "Title Mania site is active again. Come on over and play.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2607 on:** January 10, 2012, 03:50:41 PM »

Flaubert - Madame Bovary? (I know, it's a wild guess....)

Rosemary

Frybabe · « **Reply #2608 on:** January 10, 2012, 05:38:04 PM »

Winner already. Good guess, Rosemarykaye.

We must be on the same brain wave length. I didn't think that would be guessed so quickly.

The last of my classes start tomorrow.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2609 on:** January 10, 2012, 05:48:28 PM »

Oh my goodness, I am amazed.

Now I will have to think of something

Will try to come up with a new one tomorrow.

Thanks Frybabe, and apologies for cutting it short. I did 'Madame Bovary' to death at college, really should read it again as I might appreciate it this time.

Rosemary

roshanarose · « **Reply #2610 on:** January 10, 2012, 08:07:25 PM »

ROSEMARY TRIUMPHS ONCE AGAIN !!

pedln · « **Reply #2611 on:** January 11, 2012, 04:28:22 PM »

Hey Frybabe, before you go to class, someone is crying for an E over in Blanko.

JoanK · « **Reply #2612 on:** January 12, 2012, 04:03:22 PM »

ROSEMARY: brilliant!

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2613 on:** January 16, 2012, 08:31:44 AM »

Thanks Joan!

New quiz:

Author: British born

Book: Is on one level about a crime

Character: Is an orphan

roshanarose · « **Reply #2614 on:** January 16, 2012, 10:22:35 AM »

Sounds like Dickens.
Or maybe Hardy?
Or maybe more recent?

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2615 on:** January 16, 2012, 12:00:42 PM »

No sorry Roshanarose, it's neither of them. It is indeed more modern.

Rosemary

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2616 on:** January 17, 2012, 02:12:40 PM »

More clues:

Author: British born
Heavy drinker

Book: Is on one level about a crime
Is not set in the UK or the US

Character: Is an orphan
Crosses a line

JoanK · « **Reply #2617 on:** January 17, 2012, 03:15:07 PM »

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2618 on:** January 17, 2012, 05:08:57 PM »

Sorry Joan, not Kim. But you are getting warmer....

straudetwo · « **Reply #2619 on:** January 17, 2012, 08:41:04 PM »

There have been a few unexpected distractions that left me little time for other things. Am trying hard to catch up.

Rosemary, Kingsley Amis was a heavy drinker, and his son, Martin Amis, was a good chum of the hard-drinking Christopher Hitchens, who recently died.

Amis père would at least fit the approximate era : post Kipling bu before, say, Ian McEwan.

I've read other modern English and Scottish writers, but it's impossible to link any of them to this novel based on he clues on the plot we now have.

roshanarose · « **Reply #2620 on:** January 17, 2012, 11:24:36 PM »

Perhaps the setting of the book is India?

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2621 on:** January 18, 2012, 03:39:04 AM »

Roshanarose, you are correct

Maybe you can guess it now? If not I will post some more clues later today.

Rosemary

Frybabe · « **Reply #2622 on:** January 18, 2012, 08:06:26 AM »

Sounds like Paul Scott, The Raj Quartet (forget the title of the first book off hand). Character is Kumar.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2623 on:** January 18, 2012, 09:15:20 AM »

Frybabe - you are RIGHT!

It is Paul Scott, The Jewel In The Crown - the character I was actually thinking of was Daphne Manners, who is sent out to India after her parents die, and who crosses a physical line (the river - when she visits Hari's aunt's house) and a class/colour one (in her relationship with Hari) - but you're right, that clue could equally well apply to Hari (who will forever in my mind be Art Malik).

It's hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since we first saw the TV series. I watched it again recently and it was every bit as good; loved it still.

Well done!

Rosemary

Frybabe · « **Reply #2624 on:** January 18, 2012, 11:39:23 AM »

Ah, okay. I was thinking of Kumar and crossing racial lines, but Daphne did too, didn't she.

Thinking cap on for next quiz. Stay tuned.

straudetwo · « **Reply #2625 on:** January 18, 2012, 06:20:00 PM »

Of course, Frybabe, ad for some of us so recent an experience !! !

Rosemary, before you joined us, the first volume of this tetralogy by Paul Scott, Jewel in the Crown, was one of our choices in this forum several years ago. Some of those who had participated in the discussion of a story that covers the period from 1942 to 1947 and Partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan, were anxious to take on the other 3 volumes, all of which have their own individual title.

Over a period of some months, a few of us - including our unforgettable friend Gumtree - did just that on a separate site and without time constraints. We then followed it up with the discussion of Staying On, the "coda" to the tetralogy, made into a delightful movie with the same title, starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. It was this slim volume that earned Scott the literary recognition that had eluded him until then. By that time he was too ill to accept the award in person and died a short time later.

We became "involved" in the dying years and months of the Raj and the lives of fictional people who became very real to us in the process.
It was a fantastic experience and is a memory to be cherished.

Again, congratulations, Frybabe !

Frybabe · « **Reply #2626 on:** January 18, 2012, 07:56:56 PM »

Thanks Traude. We did have an exceptional discussion of the Raj Quartet and Staying On, didn't we?
Unforgettable.

roshanarose · « **Reply #2627 on:** January 18, 2012, 10:43:11 PM »

FRYBABE - U R 2 GOOD !!!!!

roshanarose · « **Reply #2628 on:** January 18, 2012, 10:50:12 PM »

I am going to have a whinge!

Last night on TV they had on three series at the one time, 8.30pm, that are on my list of must sees. TV here is such a wasteland, normally, so this occurrence is quite rare.. One is "The Killing" the episode where the female detective (Sarah)is in the house with Hartmann and discovers he doesn't have an alibi, and then sits down to share a pizza with him. Another was the first episode of "Homeland" which I have been looking forward to very much; and the other was the first episode of Zen - so frustrating. @#$%^^&. I don't have a recorder.

Wahhh! Thanks friends I feel a little better now.

Off topic I know. But the man who plays Hartmann is Lars Mikkelsen, and it came as no surprise to me that his brother is Mads Mikkelsen, one of my favourite actors. Before they became actors Mads earned his living as a dancer and Lars was a juggler.

JoanK · « **Reply #2629 on:** January 19, 2012, 03:40:37 PM »

It seems that I have that problem too. If I'm lucky, I hope they will rebroadcast one of them.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2630 on:** January 19, 2012, 07:39:35 PM »

Got one.

Author: Travels a lot

Book: Memoir of the first half of a journey.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2631 on:** January 20, 2012, 04:54:51 AM »

Dervla Murphy?

JoanK · « **Reply #2632 on:** January 20, 2012, 02:54:46 PM »

Basho?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2633 on:** January 20, 2012, 04:47:23 PM »

Sorry, no to either one.

Author: Travels a lot
In fact, the author is working on a new book, traveling now and posting to Facebook.

Book: Memoir of the first half of a journey
One of the first books to popularize adventure travel

pedln · « **Reply #2634 on:** January 20, 2012, 06:49:29 PM »

Jon Krakaur?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2635 on:** January 20, 2012, 07:57:16 PM »

Nope!

roshanarose · « **Reply #2636 on:** January 21, 2012, 12:31:01 AM »

Nationality please?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2637 on:** January 21, 2012, 03:23:32 PM »

Author: Travels a lot
In fact, the author is working on a new book, traveling now and posting to Facebook.
Most of this American's books are of journey in the US, two other of travel in China.

Book: Memoir of the first half of a journey
One of the first books to popularize adventure travel
Hiking from New York to New Orleans with a dog, this author stopped along the way to talk to,
live with, and work with people including a Virginia mountain man, a poor black family, a hippie
commune, and Gov. George Wallace.

straudetwo · « **Reply #2638 on:** January 21, 2012, 05:45:26 PM »

Good clues, Frybabe. They enabled me to exclude wrong guesses.

Not knowing anything about Facebook, I hazard a guess : Bill Bryson

Frybabe · « **Reply #2639 on:** January 21, 2012, 07:00:59 PM »

Sorry Traude, no, but by a strange coincidence, Bryson was born the same year as my author. Everyone has good such good guesses.

I had to look up Dervla Murphy. She is someone I had not run across. Her main sphere of travel was in Africa, mostly by bicycle. She is 20yrs older than my author having turned 80 last year.

My author is not as well known as he used to be, but he has some devoted readers following his current roadtrip in a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon. I am thinking of Sandy and her travels across the States.

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