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 oth
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.