[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]OT-The One True Tigger

[Philip & Susan Troy]

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
>>True, but the bastardization of his work by "Uncle Walt", a man who
>>appears to have been pretty nasty, but was still beloved of probably
>>billions of children over the decades, is probably _exactly_ what a man
>>like Milne deserved. P.G. Wodehouse, on the other hand, besides being
>>brilliant in an offhanded, careless sort of way, was also one of the
>>kinder authors of the twentieth century, and did not deserve what he got
>>at Milne's hands.
>>
>
> Yes, but people are still reading Wodehouse, and probably more of them
> than are reading Milne...
>
> -- Jadwiga, who was shocked to realize that a) many of her schoolmates had
> never heard, "Here comes Winnie the Pooh, bump bump bump downstairs on the
> back of his head", and further shocked to discover older colleagues who
> didn't know Milne wrote poetry (and were profoundly disturbed by James
> James Morrison Morrison and his missing mother).

I should also point out that the most recent, at least, adaptations of
Wodehouse for television were reasonably faithful (some, anyway) and
_extremely_ well-done. Fry and Laurie were _made_ for those roles.
Although I think that Peter O'Toole as Lord Emsworth was a bit of a
shock. I always saw him as more like Michael Hardwicke (as in, Jeremy
Brett's Doctor Watson).

Adamantius, who now has to go and watch the epsiodes of Jeeves & Wooster
that were based on "Brinkley Manor"
--
Phil & Susan Troy

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"It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
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let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98