The original screenplay adaption of this novel called for Sir Ambrose, the expat Englishman, to be played as a leather-wearing transvestite. As conceived by his author, Ambrose is a curmudgeonly old man who spends his days drinking G&T's with the other expats, though he is unsympathetic when one of them commits suicide. Meanwhile, the novel's hero 
The original screenplay adaption of this novel called for Sir Ambrose, the expat Englishman, to be played as a leather-wearing transvestite. As conceived by his author, Ambrose is a curmudgeonly old man who spends his days drinking G&T's with the other expats, though he is unsympathetic when one of them commits suicide. Meanwhile, the novel's hero masquerades as a non- sectarian minister in order to win the love of the heroine, who is unable to choose between him and another man. Unfortunately, the other man, along with being a bit of a necrophiliac, is obsessed with his own morbidly obese mother. The members of the love triangle are coworkers at a business founded by the Dreamer, a creepy visionary whose appears only as a disembodied voice spouting from quasi-religious aphorisms from hidden speakers. For ten points identify this novel featuring Dennis, Aimee, and Mr. Joyboy, set at Whispering Glades Cemetery, a work by Evelyn Waugh.
The original screenplay adaption of this novel called for Sir Ambrose, the expat Englishman, to be played as a leather-wearing transvestite.