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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20031026
Author:Ian Hislop

Last year I adapted a book by P.G. Wodehouse for the screen, and it was sold to a film company which was on the point of making it. Or, so I believed for a short while. Sadly, the deal fell through and the film was not made.

Stephen Fry, meanwhile, adapted a book by Evelyn Waugh and it was made into an expensive film which he was allowed to direct. I was therefore not feeling well disposed to Bright Young Things when some friends suggested going to see it.

When I noticed that the name "Stephen Fry" outside the cinema was in larger type than the title of the film and that the name "Evelyn ...

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