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In Keith Waterhouse's 1959 novel, Billy Fisher is a teenage clerk in an undertaker's business who dreams of scriptwriting stardom.

Billy Liar 2010

I was reminded of Billy Liar, in Keith Waterhouse's classic novel.

Nick Clegg - the lonely schoolboy who dreams of a perfect state 2010

Though Keith Waterhouse's novel "Billy Liar" has been made into a great 1963 movie, the story of Maggie Muggins is just as good, and her misadventures as "a piece of urban flotsam" would certainly work as movie, sort of the anti-Bridget Jones and please, dear God, if anyone ever really does make a movie of this, don't cast Renee Zellweger in it!

Just in case anyone asked ... some books I'd like to see made into movies Reel Fanatic 2009

Waterhouse's historical and mythological paintings.

Archive 2009-11-01 James Gurney 2009

If you put a green lightbulb on Waterhouse's head and watched him from the side during the blackout, his trajectory would look just like a square wave traced out on the face of a single-beam oscilloscope: up, down, up, down.

The Piezo Array 2007

Though Keith Waterhouse's novel "Billy Liar" has been made into a great 1963 movie, the story of Maggie Muggins is just as good, and her misadventures as "a piece of urban flotsam" would certainly work as movie, sort of the anti-Bridget Jones and please, dear God, if anyone ever really does make a movie of this, don't cast Renee Zellweger in it!

Archive 2009-10-01 Reel Fanatic 2009

This seems much in contrast to Waterhouse's scenes, which while slightly formalist, are quite believable and beautifully un-mannered, as well as being highly Romantic.

Waterhouse in London James Gurney 2009

Waterhouse's historical and mythological paintings.

Waterhouse Expedition: Impressions James Gurney 2009

The Henderson's were Waterhouse's most notable and consistent patrons.

John William Waterhouse - Portrait Hermes 2009

We're also looking at works of art like Khnopff's Des Caresses, Waterhouse's The Siren, Klimt's Pallas Athene, a dragonfly pin ornament by Lalique, Bernhardt's inkwell representing herself as a bat-winged sphinx and a poster of her by Alphone Mucha, and some Whistler, like the various Symphonies in White and Falling Rocket.

Archive 2009-11-01 Theodora Goss 2009