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	Bright Young Things - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bright Young Things is a 2003 movie directed by Stephen Fry; the film represents the directorial debut for the British actor and presenter.
		Compared to other period films, Bright Young Things is relatively fast-paced, due to the film focusing on fame and the frenzy of the media.
		The central plot is a romance story, but the film provides social commentary on younger people in the 1930s, as well as society in general.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bright_Young_Things (153 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS movie by Stephen Fry with Simon McBurney, Stephen Campbell Moore, Fenella ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Bright Young Things," adapted from a 1930 Evelyn Waugh novel and directed by English actor Stephen Fry, aims to jauntily dramatize the slow death of irony and playfulness in another milieu altogether, pre-WWII England.
		Like the rest of the bright young things, Adam and Nina are radically flip in all matters and to one another, but the interpersonal insouciance plainly conceals deep emotions (not unlike Brett and Jake of the '20s-era "The Sun Also Rises," as Hemingway fans might perceive).
		In this mode, it depicts the suicide of an impoverished young nobleman, a death caused in part by the callousness of the socialites who owed their notoriety (the new currency of high-society status) to his gossip columns.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/brightyoungthings.php (926 words)

	Bright Young Things
		First things first: Evelyn Waugh was a man (yes, there are people who do not know).
		The first part of Bright Young Things is little more than extended lunacy as this wacky group goes from party to party.
		Bright Young Things shifts its mood, and Adam can now see how empty his life was.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/bright_young_things.html (602 words)

	Bright Young Things Movie Review - Bright Young Things Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		Fry, an actor and all-purpose personality in England, was once a bright young thing himself (he's 47), and he knows about the ways flaming youth can fox-trot along the lip of the abyss.
		Nina is the most incandescent of the bright young things, suspended by threads of privilege she knows won't hold forever.
		A bright young wannabe takes the in crowd back to her house for a wee-hours snort, and her father turns out -- oops -- to be the prime minister.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=6049 (680 words)

	Head in the Clouds; Bright Young Things; Vera Drake
		Bright Young Things establishes itself quickly as one of the more trenchant satires of the state of our beloved union on the verge of a terrifying election ruled by an aristocracy possibly just as blithe as Waugh's ridiculous leisure lizards, who tiptoe along the abyss of war, yellow journalism, and economic collapse.
		That is, if he doesn't lose her by instead getting them jettisoned from the upper crust for the scurrilous tabloid exaggerations that are not only his stock and trade, but also his entrée to the celestial plane of the rich and insane.
		Reality is rude in Bright Young Things, eternally at war with the ghosts of prosperity that seem in retrospect like just a place holder between war and suffering, paper thin and squeezed between the pages of the inevitability of what's past and what's to come.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/headyoungvera.htm (1418 words)

	Crisis Magazine
		What’s more, he does it the hard way: Bright Young Things is for the most part scrupulously faithful to the style and substance of the book on which it is based.
		Bright Young Things, by contrast, moves so fast that you don’t have time to do much more than register an overall impression of accuracy: you look now and think later, which is as it should be.
		One of the many reasons why Bright Young Things works so well is the shrewdness with which it has been cast.
	www.crisismagazine.com /december2004/films.htm (1176 words)

	Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things. By David Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But the thing about Waugh (I wanted to write "the deuced thing about Waugh"—his upper-crust Britishisms are nearly as infectious as P.G. Wodehouse's) is that for all the blithe insouciance (and madcap hilarity), the novel is melancholy at its core.
		From the get-go, he gives Bright Young Things a propulsive thrust: an "Inferno" costume ball that has been crashed by one of the city's most antic gossip columnists, Mr.
		Bright Young Things is a study in collective lunacy, and the collection of actors that Fry has assembled is a disciplined bunch of loons.
	www.slate.com /id/2105419 (1067 words)

	Bright Young Things
		Their world is that of the very young, wild, party-loving creatures new to gramophone records and the telephone - this is a self-consciously modern generation that cannot keep still for a second.
		And while “Bright Young Things” is clearly an intelligent and passionate work, it suffers because it stumbles between these styles and occasionally negates its own points.
		Writer and director Stephen Fry is at his best when reveling in his cynical asides, such as the suicide of one elitist who is not invited to the “big party,” and the shallowness of these characters as they wade through their empty routines.
	movies.zertinet.com /2004/brightyoungthings.htm (765 words)

	Bright Young Things
		As a National competition for five years, Bright Young Things has produced many memorable moments and performances.
		They were also an opportunity for young bands to simply meet each other as well as play to sell-out crowds in professional venues, often for the first time.
		Such as the winners of BYT 2000, 'Insense' (now called The Music), were spotted by a major management company at the Final and are now going from strength to strength, while 1998 champions Bodixa (now called Star*Bodixa are also attracting serious industry interest.
	lcc.wisshost.co.uk /byt/byt_past.asp (228 words)

	'Bright Young Things'
		Young and restless: A generation of debauched London aristocrats parties on as the world moves toward war.
		Waugh didn't just skewer an entire generation of young London aristocrats; he presented their dizzying, debauched lifestyle — parties every night, drinks every hour, pages of idle chatter between — as a desperate final refuge from a world on the brink of war.
		"Bright Young Things" follows this rather noisy crowd from one swinging bash to another, and you never really stop wondering why the movie isn't half as annoying as it should be.
	www.ocregister.com /ocr/2004/09/10/sections/entertainment/et_movies/article_233820.php (879 words)

	THINKFilm Goes for Fry's "Bright Young Things"
		Set in 1930s London, a young well-heeled group in the city's Mayfair district are caught up in a constant round of parties and decadence.
		The colonel refuses to give his blessing to the couple all the while Adam faces roadblocks to improve his financial fortunes at the same time as the hedonism of his friends, called the Bright Young Things by the London press, reaches a feverish pitch.
		"'Bright Young Things' is a totally delicious combination of satire and farce that proves that Stephen Fry is nothing short of a Renaissance Man," commented Urman in a prepared statement.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_031217bright.html (343 words)

	Bright Young Things - Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For some, Bright Young Things could also serve as a sunnier alternative to the gloomy young things in Garden State, Natalie Portman excluded.
		It’s OK to have fun in your twenties, and in Bright Young Things, the characters have plenty of it.
		Bright Young Things seems pieced together without any concern for a cohesive narrative.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/brightyoungthings (511 words)

	Bright Young Things
		Famed for his dry wit and sarcastic edge, British author Evelyn Waugh lambasted the beautiful people of pre-WWII London in his novel "Vile Bodies," "taking the lid off" the scandalous party-goers that rocked stuffy British society with their irreverence and flippant use of drugs and alcohol.
		"Bright Young Things" transfers Waugh’s bite to the screen but even in the capable hands of veteran actor Stephen Fry ("Gosford Park," "Wilde"), who marks his directorial debut here as well as penning the screenplay, the tone is confusing to anyone not familiar with Waugh.
		Beneath the scenes of silliness and verbal sparring, under the ironic humor and overblown lifestyle, the themes of emptiness and a life unfulfilled seep through.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/B/bright_young_things.htm (409 words)

	MCN: Bright Young Things
		But as bright as the performances and as young (and mostly unknown in this country) as the actors, by the end, most people were thinking of the movie only as the "Thing."
		However, a period movie that is too engaged with its period charms to realize that it is not doing its basic duty as drama, is always going to be trouble.
		Besides the young cast, which is led in degree of fame by the always glowing Emily Mortimer, Fry has enlisted a who's who of great characters actors acting like characters.
	www.moviecitynews.com /reviews/bright_young_things_toronto.html (495 words)

	2006 Philadelphia Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bright Young Things is a wild ride depicting the lives of the idle rich in 1930s London.
		He gets a job writing a society column for newspaper tycoon Lord Monomark (Dan Aykroyd) that traces the every move of the “Bright Young Things,” the coterie of friends that comprise society’s upper-crust partygoers.
		Bright Young Things also features sumptuous costumes and sets, along with a superb supporting cast that includes Jim Broadbent, Peter O’Toole, and Stockard Channing (who provides one of the film’s highlights with her hilarious rendition of “There Ain’t No Flies on the Lamb of God”).
	www.phillyfests.com /pff/templates/film_details.cfm?id=2835 (288 words)

	Bright Young Things film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		Improbably, this is a love story in which Adam Fenwick-Symes, a destitute young writer, hungers for Nina Blount, daughter of an eccentric aristorcrat.
		Bright Young Things stars Emily Mortimer, Stockard Channing, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton and Harriet Walter.
		It is an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and tells the story of a group of wild young London party people in the late 1920s.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/b/brightyoungthings.shtm (496 words)

	Bright Young Things - Scarlett Thomas - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Six young people respond to the advert in The Times asking for bright young things for a project -...
		When she was younger she spent a lot of time demonstrating against things such as Poll Tax and the first Gulf War.
		An old letch I used to work with, who was of a literary bent, explained to me that his earliest taste of serendipity was shinning up a lamppost as a boy and having a surprise first orgasm.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/bright-young-things-scarlett-thomas (405 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bright Young Things [2003]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Adam is part of a young novelist who is trying to earn enough money so he can marry his love.
		Anglophiles among will probably find much to admire about Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things, there's some witty dialogue, some nice English scenery, and lots of supporting characters that are either batty and eccentric, or rich and idle.
		Bright Young Things is a pleasant enough experience, and Fry does a sound job of recreating the delirious atmosphere of the era.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001FYQ18 (1234 words)

	Amazon.com: Bright Young Things : London: Books: Brooke De Ocampo,Fleur Cowles,Jonathan Becker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bright Young Things London is the highly anticipated follow-up to the successful New York edition.
		Bright Young Things London captures the spirit of the city while paying tribute to its international influences.
		The difference this time, unfortunately, is that she decided to let other Bright Young Things do the writing as well as open their homes and pose for photographs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/2843233372?v=glance (972 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Bright Young Things (xhtml)
		If "Bright Young Things" were set today in Manhattan, it would be about Paris and Nicky Hilton and their circle, Rupert Murdoch, the gossip writers of Page Six, and bloggers for sites like defamer.com.
		Like The Great Gatsby, the works of Dawn Powell, Jay McInerney and all the other novels about heedless romance and debauchery, "Bright Young Things" is about people who think they can live forever, and discover that to live forever in the way they are living is not only impossible but would become exhausting and discouraging.
		As pure comedy, "Bright Young Things" would be funny up to a point, and then repetitive.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040910/REVIEWS/409100301/1023 (958 words)

	NPR : Stephen Fry's 'Bright Young Things'
		His film Bright Young Things adapts Evelyn Waugh's classic 1930 comic novel Vile Bodies for the screen.
		While he notes that the current obsession with the young and glamorous is a touchstone, Fry feels that his characters -- and their real-life models -- were more intimately involved in the intellectual and artistic transformations of their era.
		Bright Young Things opened in limited U.S. release on August 20.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=3862802 (271 words)

	FRY, STEPHEN
		The Bright Young Things of Fry's first feature directing effort are the "bright young people" of Waugh's second novel, written in 1930 at age 27—a caf society spinning dizzily out of control, hedonistic gadflies flitting in their flappers on the brink of disaster between World Wars.
		In fact, "the thing that thrills me most are the unknowns we present for the first time on film." Case in point: Stephen Campbell Moore, gamely cast as our hard-pressed hero, who moves among the Jazz Age's rich and infamous not unlike the quiet center of a hurricane.
		In Bright Young Things, alas, Fry holds his acting to a chauffeur cameo.
	www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/filmmakers/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000692670 (1371 words)

	Bright Young Things
		"Ostensibly a love story, the central drama is that of a young couple kept apart because he has no money and she has no desire to live without it.
		Thom says: "Stephen Fry's BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, adapted from the Evelyn Waugh (yes, that Evelyn Waugh!) novel Vile Bodies is not very well grounded.
		"BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS might have been a better film had not an actor been at the helm.
	www.chlotrudis.org /movies/reviews/2004/bright.html (1401 words)

	MagicWeek Magic Book Shop UK books
		Currently he is coaching two actors for Bright Young Things, an upcoming movie being directed by Stephen Fry.
		A post-show drinks party at the Young Magician of the Year at the Crucible in Sheffield, (the last event in the calendar before the World Snooker Championships) offers Marty's faltering career a way forward.
		The award winning duo of Darren Watt and Terri Electric are going their separate ways and it doesn't take long for Marti to coax Terri into becoming his partner on stage and in bed.
	www.magicweek.co.uk /magic_book_shop/magic_book_shop.htm (942 words)

	'Bright Young Things' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		'Bright Young Things' scuffs the gloss of Waugh's wit
		First to be abandoned is the title, in favor of "Bright Young Things," which is what the British tabs took to calling the extravagantly rich and famously outrageous youth of that period.
		They were real people, who gathered at London's Cafe de Paris to do cocaine and the Charleston while Europe burned.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04261/380398.stm (496 words)

	Bright Young Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		LONDON -- Writer-director Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things" is a Jazz Age English period comedy full of frightfully keen chaps and their ever-so-dotty girlfriends who spend all their time dashing from one society party to another for no particular purpose.
		Fry is a noted British writer, actor, raconteur and all-around wit who wrote and makes his feature film-directing debut with "Bright Young Things." The result will be judged on two levels: as an adaptation of Waugh's classic novel and as a film on its own merits.
		The major disappears and Adam is on the phone again to Nina with the bad news.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/awards/sundance/reviews_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2060040 (663 words)

	Bright Young Things - Movie Review
		"Bright Young Things" is a terribly witty romp through 1930s pre-war London with a pack of idle young swells who live scrumptious but superficial lives of joyous gossip-page decadence and complacent scandal that has the potential to ruin them.
		But director Fry furtively hints at shades of compunction and misfortune under the film's carefree surface that bubble up as world events encroach on these lives of leisure, eventually taking the film to an unexpected level of empathy, nuance and humanity.
		Wickedly smart and perfectly peppered with apropos period music, "Bright Young Things" is also brilliant enough to be blessed with an array of Britain's finest comedic actors giving their all.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/brightyoung (355 words)

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