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 [log in to unmask]