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Amongst the supporting cast, Elsa Lanchester is most notable as a fussy landlady.
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Amongst the supporting cast, Elsa Lanchester is most notable as a fussy landlady.
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Lanchester notes: In general, the literary novel has turned slightly too far away from the things that press on people.
No time for novels – should we ditch fiction in times of crisis? 2011
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Picking up on Trollope's withering critique of financial shenanigans, Cartwright, Faulks and Lanchester all write convincingly about the obscure but compelling world of high finance.
The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope… 2012
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And this point is made flesh, really, by John Lanchester, who illuminated all this nefarious financial jiggery-pokery – but Whoops was a side-dish or an amuse-bouche to the main project, Capital, a great monster of a novel, which does more than illuminate finance: it animates it; and that's when you fully comprehend something, when you can see its face.
No time for novels – should we ditch fiction in times of crisis? 2011
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Lanchester says, possibly by way of reassurance, We'd all rather be in the back seat of the car, with our parents in the front, driving.
No time for novels – should we ditch fiction in times of crisis? 2011
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Lanchester appears both at the beginning of the film, where she plays Mary Shelley, and at the end, where she plays the Monster's mate.
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Faulks's hedge fund villain John Veals is a brilliantly bad, Melmotte-like insider; Cartwright like Robert Harris in last autumn's The Fear Index looks at how old-fashioned bankers floundered in an era of bafflingly complex derivatives and fast money; while Lanchester's Roger Yount, between lusting after his children's nanny and despairing over a "mere" £30,000 bonus, is a character many would have thought impossible – a banker who arouses our sympathy.
The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope… 2012
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The Monster's Mate (played by Elsa Lanchester) in Bride of Frankenstein My personal favourite - the Bride, created solely for the purpose of being Frankenstein's mate, is brought to life.
Archive 2009-01-01 zombietron 2009
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Monty Woolley and Elsa Lanchester are superb in supporting roles.
John W. Whitehead: Have a Very Merry Celluloid Christmas John W. Whitehead 2011
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