After some slightly regrettable expostulations it has settled down to a most civilized conversation, and if somebody here would like to copy it to and continue it on a subpage of their own talk page, I'd be happy to continue there .-- talk ) 10 : 22, 23 September 2009 ( UTC)
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The show's 90 or so minutes consist of a meandering and seemingly random mishmash of expostulations, wisecracks, reminiscences, naughty gossip and complaints . ( The actor Farley Granger, obsessively envious of Tony Curtis, comes in for particular abuse . ) There is also a fair dollop of the Goldwynisms he became known for, like " If people don't want to come to the movies, you can't stop them ."
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Mallock is remembered chiefly for one book, " The New Republic, " and that his first, composed while he still was at Oxford " the most brilliant novel ever written by an undergraduate, " says Professor Tillotson, justly . ( It is also the most brilliant accomplishment in its genre, after Thomas Love Peacock; and perhaps it is equal to Peacock at his best . ) But other books of Mallock's are worth looking into still his theological and philosophical studies, his didactic novels, his zealous volumes of political expostulation and social statistics, even his books of verse.
