The Hippopotamus: Fry Stephen

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Cast: Roger Allam, Fiona Shaw, Matthew Modine, Tommy Knight, Emily Berrington, Dean Ridge, Emma Curtis, Tim McInnerny, Geraldine Somerville, Lyne Renee, John Standing The sex stuff in this book is a bit over the top at times. Be forewarned. There's a lot of disgusting stuff in here that I could imagine some people finding totally disturbing. Wiseman, Andreas (1 October 2015). "Stephen Fry's 'Hippopotamus' secures sales, distribution deal". Screendaily . Retrieved 4 June 2017.

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Ted Wallace is weary beyond all human capacity for weariness of the mindless pap that is served up under the guise of 21st century "culture", and can hardly be blamed for seeking refuge in a bottle of whisky, or rather a great many bottles of whisky. Then out of the blue he is suddenly presented with his very own hero's journey, which he embarks on with great reluctance and reservation, but ultimately manages to see clean through the dense haze of crap.The moral, if there is one, is that it's okay to live life in any way you want to, so long as you remember there isn't anyone to save you or fix you but yourself. Political Correctness Gone Mad? (2018) (with Michael Eric Dyson, Michelle Goldberg and Jordan B Peterson)

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This adaptation of Stephen Fry’s comic novel about an ageing alcoholic and his apparently miraculous godson relies so heavily on voiceover that it’s practically an audiobook. Roger Allam plays Ted Wallace, a pompous, washed-up ex-poet turned theatre critic who receives a strange assignment from a terminally ill woman. He must go to Swafford, the country pile owned by his estranged old friend Lord Michael Logan (Matthew Modine with a bizarre accent), and investigate reports that the Lord’s son David (Tommy Knight) has mystical healing powers. If you dislike or don't understand British humour, you'll rate this a 1. But if you accept the fact that the Brits are all a bit mad --- I mean,who else could have dreamt up Monty Python? --- you will enjoy it immensely: the totally absurd story, the British prototypes, the brilliantly rich and round use of the English language. Having said that, there was excessive and unnecessary use of the"'f word" Film Notes An ageing writer finds himself caught up in a mystery in this underwhelming adaptation of Stephen Fry's comic novelThe Liar" has one weakness and that is the spy / espionage subplot that Fry inserts in brief chapters between the longer chapters that depict the linear narrative of the story. They are set off by italics until the subplot and main plot connect up, and I thought that it was a detraction from the text, weakened it almost like Fry did not trust the characters he had created on their own merits, but rather had to make them interesting by inserting them into a spy thriller novel. It was not necessary in my opinion. The novel's title comes from the poem of the same name by T. S. Eliot, whose first verse is quoted as the epigraph: [2]