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Fri 01 Jan 2009Brideshead Revisited
'OH MY D- D- DEAR!" Anthony Blanche, the camp aesthete in Evelyn Waugh's most delightfully barmy novel, might very well stutter. "It is one thing to make an appearance where you are not wanted; it is altogether another to turn up a full three months late. The shame!"
It is, indeed, a yawning 12 weeks since Julian Jarrold's largely useless adaptation of Brideshead Revisitedopened to critical raspberries in the UK. The delay only serves to highlight the egregious redundancy of the exercise.
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