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To: SuziQ
she engages a 'valet' for him, played by Stephen Fry. Bertie is truly stupid, and Jeeves is always having to get his behind out of a sling.

Stephen Fry's fruity portrayal of the imperturbable Jeeves totally ruined the piece for me. Fry is a homosexual's homosexual, not a gentleman's gentleman. His mincing and condescending gay posturing utterly destroyed Wodehouse's most memorable character, at least in my mind. I read every Bertie Wooster story I could find years ago and really looked forward to this program. I could only stand to watch about 5 minutes of it.

448 posted on 09/21/2005 2:08:09 PM PDT by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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To: Bernard Marx

I didn't think Stephen Fry acted as 'homosexual' as you thought he did. He wasn't swishy, just supercilious.


449 posted on 09/22/2005 9:14:30 AM PDT by SuziQ
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