Outrage against cultural debasement becomes a dandy as much as a good pair of white summer flannels, but the film adaptation of “Brideshead Revisited” stirred […]
Month: March 2023
Symphony In Spite
Being accosted by a fellow American in London put Gilded Age painter and dandy James Abbot McNeill Whistler into a caustic funk. When the uppity […]
The Fake’s Progress
Every era gets the dandies it deserves. The Regency got Brummell, a true sartorial innovator whose wit was as crisp as his country-washed linen. Count D’Orsay […]
Jolly Roger
For his 80th birthday in 2007, Sir Roger Moore received an appropriate present: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Moore attended the […]
Stiff Upper Quip
Dry, dapper and a master of light comedy, David Niven was not only an English gentleman navigating the Hollywood miasma, but a “first-rate personality. A […]
Cutting A Dash
In the 2011 BBC production of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” the protagonist Pip, who is newly risen from poverty by an anonymous benefactor, is told […]