Sebastian Flyte
Fictional Character
Bright Star: Jane Campion's comeback transforms the legendary poet John Keats into a pathetic wimpHe is the drippiest British actor since the Merchant Ivory heyday of James Wilby, and he even managed to drain all the joie de vivre out of Sebastian Flyte in the recent film of Brideshead Revisited. He's no fun at all as Keats, even before... In this article: Jane Campion, John Keats, Bright Star, Ben Whishaw, An Education, Brideshead Revisited, Abbie Cornish, Carey Mulligan, and The Piano |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 05, 2009
Bright Star review
...independence. Whishaw has the cheekbones and rock-star hips to be expected from someone who played Bob Dylan in I'm Not There (2007) and Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (2008). He handles the verse he delivers with understated flair,...
In this article: Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, John Keats, Abbie Cornish, Oscar, Charles Armitage Brown, and Kerry Fox
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | November 03, 2009
Interview: Ben Whishaw - Star quality
But the film came towards the end of a string of projects, including the film version of Brideshead Revisited (in which he played Sebastian Flyte) and the harrowing TV prison drama, Criminal Justice, which left him feeling "really spent".
In this article: Ben Whishaw, John Keats, Bright Star, Hamlet, Royal Court Theatre, Primo Levi, Brideshead Revisited, and Trevor Nunn
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Daily Mail | October 26, 2009
Hamlet, Keith Richards, now poet John Keats... Ben Whishaw on why it's tough to take the lead
Filmed walking up the red carpet at the Munich premiere of Perfume he looked almost comically ill at ease. Ben as the fabulously dissolute Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited, above with Hayley Atwell as Julia (left) and Matthew Goode as...
In this article: Ben Whishaw, Hamlet, Bright Star, John Keats, Dustin Hoffman, Trevor Nunn, Oscar, Charles Armitage Brown, and John Gielgud
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Blogcritics | October 25, 2009
Book Review: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
...the novel's atmospheric exploration of love, lust, religion, and sin. The novel traces Ryder's days at Oxford, where he meets the eccentric Sebastian Flyte and his teddy bear Aloysius. The two become fast friends and more than friends.
In this article: Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Charles Ryder, First World War, World War II, and Waiting for Godot
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | September 24, 2009
Is John-Paul Langbroek too nice to win in Queensland?
...think a grown man had been so overwhelmed he needed a childhood security blanket. The explanation that he was actually channelling the camp Sebastian Flyte character from Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited wasn't much better. "What a...
In this article: John-Paul Langbroek, Anna Bligh, Queensland, Women's Weekly, Mango, Brideshead Revisited, and Evelyn Waugh
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Independent.co.uk - Books | September 16, 2009
Mad World, By Paula Byrne
We are promised new revelations as to Waugh's sexual friendships with young men at Oxford, particularly one of the putative models for Sebastian Flyte: Hugh Lygon. He exhibited the requisite childlike grace and beauty, took rooms with...
In this article: Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Oxford, and Christopher Sykes
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Times Online | August 21, 2009
Brideshead was all about the fashion
...inhabitants: Lord Beauchamp, hounded into exile on account of his sexuality, and his son, Hugh, also gay and alcoholic, and model for Sebastian Flyte. Despite such blighted lives, we insist on seeing the myth of Brideshead as somehow...
In this article: Brideshead, Evelyn Waugh, Cecil Beaton, Silver, Harold Acton, Charles Sturridge, Southampton, and Brian Howard
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Times Online | August 15, 2009
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
...Hugh's death at the age of 31, Waugh returned to the time in which he was most happy. He refashioned alcoholic Hugh as the alcoholic Sebastian Flyte; Lord Beauchamp, Hugh's father, as Lord Marchmain; Hugh's elder brother, Elmley, as Bridey;...
In this article: Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, and Oxford
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Daily Mail | August 14, 2009
Brideshead Revisited author Evelyn Waugh 'had three homosexual affairs at Oxford'
...of his homosexuality when he left university. She also claims that Waugh drew inspiration from two of his male companions for Lord Sebastian Flyte, his most famous literary creation. The biography, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh And The Secrets...
In this article: Evelyn Waugh, Oxford, Brideshead Revisited, and Lord Sebastian Flyte
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Telegraph.co.uk - Books | August 13, 2009
Evelyn Waugh's mad world
...family Brideshead Revisited must surely rank as one of the best-loved novels of the 20th century. Aloysius the teddy bear, Sebastian Flyte being sick through Charles Ryder's window, Anthony Blanche declaiming TS Eliot through a...
In this article: Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Harold Acton, and TS Eliot
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Lord Sebastian Flyte is a charming but self destructive and ultimately tragic fictional character from the Evelyn Waugh novel Brideshead Revisited.
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