Steve Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Ian Foster:
>
>>Would list members recommend books on Gilbert and Sullivan? I have
>>become a recent convert, having seen Mike Leigh's film 'Topsy Turvy'.  ...
>
>I loved the film as well.

Me too, and didn't think it was a second too long.

Others who enjoyed it might like to know that the sons of two of the main
characters in the film left a rather different legacy:  Rupert D'Oyly Carte
- son of the man in the film - was the inspiration for P.G.  Wodehouse's
Psmith (as he himself acknowledged) and George Grossmith jr., son of the
singer (who also, with his brother Weedon, wrote Diary of a Nobody), was
one of the several inspirations for Bertie Wooster.

Deryk Barker
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