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Lucky Jim (play)
''Lucky Jim'' is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university. Amis arrived at Dixon's surname from 12 Dixon Drive, Leicester, the address of Philip Larkin from 1948 to 1950, while he was a librarian at the university there. ''Lucky Jim'' is dedicated to Larkin, who helped to inspire the main character and contributed significantly to the structure of the novel. Plot Jim Dixon is a lecturer in medieval history at a red brick university in the English Midlands. He has made an unsure start and, towards the end of the academic year, is concerned about losing his probationary position in the department. In his attempt to be awarded a permanent post he tries to maintain a good relationship with his absent-minded head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social criticism, social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as ''Lucky Jim'' (1954), ''One Fat Englishman'' (1963), ''Ending Up'' (1974), ''Jake's Thing'' (1978) and ''The Old Devils'' (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, ''The Times'' ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Life and career Kingsley Amis was born on 16 April 1922 in Clapham, south London, the only child of William Robert Amis (1889–1963), a clerk—"quite an important one, fluent in Spanish and responsible for exporting mustard to South America"—for the mustard man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author and journalist. He was the author of Christopher Hitchens bibliography, 18 books on faith, religion, culture, politics, and literature. He was born and educated in Britain, graduating in 1970 from the University of Oxford with a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. In the early 1980s, he emigrated to the United States and wrote for ''The Nation'' and ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair''. Known as one of the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Four Horsemen" of New Atheism (along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett), he gained prominence as a columnist and speaker. Hitchens's razor, His epistemological razor, which states that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence", is still of mark in philosophy and law. Political views of Christopher Hitchens, Hitchens's political views evolved greatly throughout his life. Originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enn Reitel
Enn Reitel (born 21 June 1950) is a Scottish actor who specialises in voice work in films, television series and video games. Early life Reitel's family arrived in Scotland as refugees from Estonia. He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Career Acting In 1982, Reitel starred in '' The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim'', a sitcom on BBC Two written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Reitel played Jim Dixon, based on the character created by Kingsley Amis. He appeared on stage in '' Me and My Girl'' at the Adelphi Theatre in 1986. On television he worked as an impressionist on the satirical puppet show '' Spitting Image'' and starred in the ITV sitcom '' Mog'' as a burglar who spent his days in a psychiatric hospital, pretending to be insane. He played the lead role in the UK television comedy series '' The Optimist'' which ran from 1983 for two series. The programme was almost entirely silent. In each episode 'The Optimist' wandered through l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Further Adventures Of Lucky Jim
''The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim'' ( ''The New Adventures of Lucky Jim'') is a British television sitcom which first aired on BBC 2 in 1982. It is inspired by the 1954 novel ''Lucky Jim'' by Kingsley Amis, updated to the Swinging Sixties. It was intended as a sequel to the 1967 series '' Further Adventures of Lucky Jim'' also written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, which had starred Keith Barron in the title role. Actors who appeared in individual episodes include Miranda Richardson, Clive Swift, Antony Sher, Tony Haygarth, Albert Moses, Trevor Bannister, Tim Barrett, Timothy Carlton, Geoffrey Chater and Wanda Ventham. Synopsis In 1967 returning from a year abroad, university lecturer Jim Dixon is determined to get into the spirit of the times. Main cast * Enn Reitel as Jim Dixon * Glynis Barber as Lucy Simmons * David Simeon as Philip Lassiter * Barbara Flynn as Joanna Lassiter * Nick Stringer as George Bowles * Debbie Wheeler as Susan * Peter Hughes as Mr. Dixon * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Further Adventures Of Lucky Jim
''Further Adventures of Lucky Jim'' or ''The New Adventures of Lucky Jim'' is a comedy television series which first aired on BBC1 in 1967. Inspired by the novel ''Lucky Jim'' by Kingsley Amis, it updates the story from the early 1950s of the novel to mid-1960s Swinging London. It stars Keith Barron as the young university lecturer Jim Dixon. The scriptwriters wrote a belated sequel ''The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim'' starring Enn Reitel in 1982. The majority of the episodes are now considered lost. In 2024 audio recordings were found for several missing episodes from the series. These episodes are entitled 'Jim's In', 'Jim Cleans Up', 'Look Why Don't We Go Back To My Place?' and 'Jim Freaks Out'.http://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8031/bbc-sitcom-recordings-found-clement-la-frenais/ Other actors who appeared in the series include Suzy Kendall, Nerys Hughes, John Le Mesurier, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, John Junkin, Donald Hewlett, William Kendall, Robert Raglan, Felix B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Barron
Keith Barron (8 August 1934 – 15 November 2017) was an English actor and television presenter who appeared in films and on television from 1961 until 2017. His television roles included the police drama '' The Odd Man'', the sitcom '' Duty Free'', and, playing Gregory Wilmot in period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. Career Born in Mexborough in the West Riding of Yorkshire,'South Yorkshire' did not exist before 1 April 1974. 'West Riding of Yorkshire' is correct. Barron completed his national service in the Royal Air Force and his acting career started at the Sheffield Repertory Theatre, where he worked with a young Patrick Stewart and also met his wife, Mary, a stage designer. He became well known to British television viewers in the early 1960s as the easygoing Detective Sergeant Swift in the Granada TV series '' The Odd Man'' and its spin-off. His major breakthrough, however, was as Nigel Barton in the writer Dennis Potter's semi-autobiographical plays '' Stand Up, Nige ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Carmichael
Ian Gillett Carmichael, (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an English actor who Ian Carmichael on stage, screen and radio, worked prolifically on stage, screen and radio in a career that spanned seventy years. Born in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but his studies—and the early stages of his career—were curtailed by the Second World War. After his Demobilisation of the British Armed Forces after the Second World War, demobilisation he returned to acting and found success, initially in revue and Sketch comedy, sketch productions. In 1955 Carmichael was noticed by the film producers Boulting brothers, John and Roy Boulting, who cast him in five of their films as one of the major players. The first was the 1956 film ''Private's Progress'', a satire on the British Army; he received critical and popular praise for the role, including from the American market. In many of his roles he played a likea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Jim (1957 Film)
''Lucky Jim'' is a 1957 British comedy film directed by John Boulting and starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and Hugh Griffith. It is an adaptation of the 1954 novel ''Lucky Jim'' by Kingsley Amis. Plot Jim Dixon is a young lecturer in history at a redbrick university, who manages to offend his head of department and create various disastrous incidents. When he eventually delivers a lecture drunk, he feels forced to resign. But just as his career seems over, he is offered a job in London, and when he learns that the girl of his dreams is on her way to the railway station, he chases after her in the professor's old car. The professor's whole family chases after, and arrives at the station just in time to see Jim and the girl disappear on the train to London. Main cast * Ian Carmichael as James "Jim" Dixon * Terry-Thomas as Bertrand Welch * Hugh Griffith as Professor Welch * Sharon Acker as Christine Callaghan * Jean Anderson as Mrs Welch * Maureen Connell as Margaret Peel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time (magazine)
''Time'' (stylized in all caps as ''TIME'') is an American news magazine based in New York City. It was published Weekly newspaper, weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March 2020, it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. A European edition (''Time Europe'', formerly known as ''Time Atlantic'') is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (''Time Asia'') is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. Since 2018, ''Time'' has been owned by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. Benioff currently publishes the magazine through the company Time USA, LLC. History 20th century ''Time'' has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York Times''. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards. ''The New Yorker''s fact-checking operation is widely recognized among journalists as one of its strengths. Although its reviews and events listings often focused on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' gained a reputation for publishing serious essays, long-form journalism, well-regarded fiction, and humor for a national and international audience, including work by writers such as Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and Alice Munro. In the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist, who was raised in Montreal, Canada. He is best known as a staff writer for ''The New Yorker,'' to which he has contributed nonfiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986. He is the author of nine books, including ''Paris to the Moon'', ''Through the Children's Gate'', ''The King in the Window'', and ''A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism.'' In 2020, his essay "The Driver's Seat" was cited as the most-assigned piece of contemporary nonfiction in the English-language syllabus. Early life and education Gopnik was born to a American Jews, Jewish family in Philadelphia and raised in Montreal. His family lived at Habitat 67. Both his parents were professors at McGill University; father Irwin was a professor of English literature and mother Myrna Gopnik, Myrna was a professor of linguistics. During a storytelling session for The Moth in 2014, Gopnik explained that his paternal grandfat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relationships That Influenced Philip Larkin
Throughout the life of the poet Philip Larkin, multiple women had important roles which were significant influences on his poetry. Since Larkin's death in 1985, biographers have highlighted the importance of female relationships on Larkin: when Andrew Motion's biography was serialised in ''The Independent'' in 1993, the second installment of extracts was dedicated to the topic. In 1999, Ben Brown's play ''Larkin with Women'' dramatised Larkin's relationships with three of his lovers, and more recently writers such as Martin Amis, continued to comment on this subject. Amis is the son of the British novelist, and Larkin's long-standing friend, Kingsley Amis. While primarily a novelist, Amis also wrote more than six volumes of poetry. Biographer Richard Bradford contends that, over the course of Larkin's life, his relationship with Amis transformed from one of mutual appreciation and encouragement, to a much more fraught dynamic. Bradford has stated that in the later years of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
