Hello, this is Louis, welcoming you back to the Independent Culture newsletter. Has this week felt ludicrously long to anyone else? Not in a bad way, necessarily, but just... long. I went to see a screening of Caddyshack on Monday evening, and it feels like that was a month ago. (Incidentally, from a first-time Caddyshack viewer: pretty funny! Lives up to its reputation, in ways both good and bad. But then, I'm a sucker for Rodney Dangerfield.)
The big deal this week must be the climax of The Night Manager's second series; Patrick Smith unpacked the show's ending with the writer and director. Incidentally, I've been receiving emails about Tom Hiddleston supposedly re-entering the race to become the next James Bond. That's according to some of the bookmakers, at least. If you ask me, he stands about as much chance as Ricky Gervais at this point. You'd be better off playing the lottery.
Alice Saville reviewed a couple of plays this week: the first is American Psycho, a musical adaptation of the grisly Bret Easton Ellis satire. Sounds fun! Then there's Arcadia at the Old Vic, which also sounds like fun, albeit of a rather more cerebral kind.
We're just a matter of days away from the release of Wuthering Heights, the new film adaptation of the classic Brontë novel. It's getting a lot of buzz. I'll say this much: Emerald Fennell, certainly knows how to sell a movie. But she might have her work cut out for her selling it to Helen Coffey, who wrote a great, witty piece about her hatred of Wuthering Heights (the book).
More good stuff below, including a conversation with the wonderful writer George Saunders, our Books of the Month rundown for February, and a terrific Saturday Interview with Thora Birch, the actor who was so brilliant as a teenager in Ghost World and American Beauty – only for her film career to grind to a years-long halt.
Enjoy!
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