Bruce Robinson: C?D?

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Of Withnail & I< How To Get Ahead In Advertising, Thomas Penman etc. Do you find his writing viscerally pleasurable or viscerally schmeasurable?

― , Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

His writing is not as good as his anecdotes.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Assume you're referring to Smoking In Bed?

― , Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking more about his profile on the South Bank Show and also an appearance he did to publicise SIB.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Not many fans here?

― , Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Withnail: C
the design on his books, especially the paperback of Penman: C
his performance in Still Crazy: C

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

My heart's beating like a fucked clock!

― Cheeseburger-style funbox to GO! Fries come in regular and crepuscular size (Eas, Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/bruce-robinson-creator-of-withnail-and-i-on-his-new-book-about-jack-the-ripper-10286668.html

― Freedom, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 10:38 (ten years ago)

Oh yay! I'll buy that!

I still really wanna read his original unmangled screenplay for fat man and little boy

― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 11:50 (ten years ago)

Yeah, the Bomb seemed to be an equivalent obsession to the Ripper. (The account of FMALB in Smoking in Bed is enthralling.)

― Freedom, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 12:39 (ten years ago)

exactly, that book is what made me want to read his draft!

― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 14:20 (ten years ago)

The Rum Diary was decidedly pony.

― mahb, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:12 (ten years ago)

"pony" = "not that great?"

― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:47 (ten years ago)

1000 pages on Jack the Ripper?

in 2015?

sign me up!

― Number None, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:14 (ten years ago)

If it's in his prose voice I'll be more than eager. IDK if he has a drier "scrupulously sourced research" voice.

God how I'd love to read some of those unproduced screenplays...

― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:26 (ten years ago)

I thought The Rum Diary was mostly decent enough, but trailed off rather badly - the use of the "know the price of everything, and the value of nothing" platitude at the end was a heart sinker, to be sure. I get the impression from interviews and so on that he wasn't hugely into the project.

Re: Ripper, the theme itself is of much less interest for me than what he'll do with it.

― Freedom, Thursday, 9 July 2015 08:16 (ten years ago)

xpost to Jon

Pony = Cockney Rhyming Slang = Pony & Trap/Crap

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 9 July 2015 08:27 (ten years ago)

Ah ok. It's not quite pony imo. Just so-so. Nice that they gave Christopher Young the chance to go all mondo combo on the ost though.

― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 9 July 2015 11:39 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

Interesting, lengthy interview here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11899901/jack-the-ripper-mystery-solved.html

― Freedom, Monday, 5 October 2015 10:46 (ten years ago)

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