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As both Mike Leigh and his characters are British, Beverley in Abigail's Party has an 'ey' at the end, like the Yorkshire town that lent its name to Beverl[e]y, Massachusetts, and subsequently Beverl[e]y Hills, California. A nice piece of not doing the research, don't you think?
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* Sebastian Faulks' book on British fictional characters makes a reference to the play ''Abigail's Party'', citing "Abigail proposing to put the wine in the fridge" - but the "Abigail" of the play's title is a character who, like Godot, never actually appears onstage. The party hostess who puts wine in the fridge is called Beverly.
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* Sebastian Faulks' book on British fictional characters makes a reference to the [[Creator/MikeLeigh Mike Leigh's]] play ''Abigail's Party'', citing "Abigail proposing to put the wine in the fridge" - but the "Abigail" of the play's title is a character who, like Godot, never actually appears onstage. The party hostess who puts wine in the fridge is called Beverly.Beverley.
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** [[https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fnot-sure-the-cover-artist-read-the-book-v0-ts5qs7gwdub91.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D9375e6f6d9b317ed9125440ca8d93a0f48eba54a This cover]] for '' Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'' was clearly designed by someone without the first clue what the book is about.
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I tried to find anything about a story like this so I could fix the entry - as I could find no info about this mysterious story, removing this one.
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* One short story was about a rich man who bought the world's best television, a wall-sized screen that you could actually walk into and enter the movie/show. [[MoralEventHorizon He uses this to rape various movie stars.]] But he gets his comeuppance when in the middle of trying to rape Creator/IngridBergman in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', his son wanders in, starts flipping through the channels, and lands on a ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'' movie, where his father is killed by...Freddy Krueger.
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** That Matteo has to go to the Swamp of Akhlaur to fight a monster and "seek his truth" (it's Tzigone's past that they go to the swamp to search for, not Matteo's, and she's more important than him in the fight with said monster). ** The blurb ends by saying that "something even worse is on his trail, a relentless persecutor of magic: The Magehound." ''All'' of this is wrong. "The Magehound" is named Kiva, and she's a person, not some sort of creature; she's ''a'' magehound, not ''the'' magehound, since "magehound" is just as slang term for an inquisitor and there are lots of them; her job is to enforce Halruaa's laws, not to "persecute magic" (as she's a mage herself); and she never pursues Matteo at any point and is something of a FriendlyEnemy to him for most of the book, since she's trying to [[VillainTakesAnInterest manipulate him into doing something for her]] - once again, it's ''Tzigone'' she's after. In general, the blurb gets ''everything'' wrong aside from the names of the main character an a few locations.
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** That Matteo has to go to the Swamp of Akhlaur to fight a monster and "seek his truth" (it's Tzigone's past that they go to the swamp to search for, not Matteo's, and she's more important than him in the fight with said monster).
** The blurb ends by saying that "something even worse is on his trail, a relentless persecutor of magic: The Magehound." ''All'' of this is wrong. "The Magehound" is named Kiva, and she's a person, not some sort of creature; she's ''a'' magehound, not ''the'' magehound, since "magehound" is just as slang term for an inquisitor and there are lots of them; her job is to enforce Halruaa's laws, not to "persecute magic" (as she's a mage herself); and she never pursues Matteo at any point and is something of a FriendlyEnemy to him for most of the book, since she's trying to [[VillainTakesAnInterest manipulate him into doing something for her]] - once again, it's ''Tzigone'' she's after. In general, the blurb gets ''everything'' wrong aside from the names of the main character an a few locations.
** The blurb ends by saying that "something even worse is on his trail, a relentless persecutor of magic: The Magehound." ''All'' of this is wrong. "The Magehound" is named Kiva, and she's a person, not some sort of creature; she's ''a'' magehound, not ''the'' magehound, since "magehound" is just as slang term for an inquisitor and there are lots of them; her job is to enforce Halruaa's laws, not to "persecute magic" (as she's a mage herself); and she never pursues Matteo at any point and is something of a FriendlyEnemy to him for most of the book, since she's trying to [[VillainTakesAnInterest manipulate him into doing something for her]] - once again, it's ''Tzigone'' she's after. In general, the blurb gets ''everything'' wrong aside from the names of the main character an a few locations.
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* Blurbs for Franchise/ForgottenRealms novels from the 2000s were often notoriously misleading or just plain wrong. Take the blurb from ''[[Literature/CounselorsAndKings The Magehound]]'', for example. It describes the main protagonist, Matteo, as a [[ManOfKryptonite non-magical]] counselor to TheMagocracy of Halruaa, which is fair enough... then describes him as discovering he has a spark of magical ability after all (he doesn't, that's his friend Andris, and even ''that'' turns out to be rather different than what it originally seems), having to go on a run with only a "street waif" for a companion (that "street waif" is named Tzigone and she's arguably the ''real'' protagonist of the trilogy, having equal standing with Matteo at bare minimum and isn't a sidekick; Tzigone herself is a fugitive, but though she and Matteo have various misadventures they never go on the run together at all, as Matteo remains a counselor in good standing for the whole trilogy) and that Matteo is pursued by "the Cabal" (the Cabal gets a couple of mentions in the book but is never explained and never takes any interest in Matteo; the sequels reveal that "the Cabal" isn't a conspiracy at all, but the codename of a powerful ''artifact''). Matteo is described as having to go to the Swamp of Akhlaur to fight a monster and "seek his truth" (it's Tzigone's past that they go to the swamp to search for, not Matteo's, and she's more important than him in the fight with said monster). Finally, the blurb ends by saying that "something even worse is on his trail, a relentless persecutor of magic: The Magehound." ''All'' of this is wrong. "The Magehound" is named Kiva, and she's a person, not some sort of creature; she's ''a'' magehound, not ''the'' magehound, since "magehound" is just as slang term for an inquisitor and there are lots of them; her job is to enforce Halruaa's laws, not to "persecute magic" (as she's a mage herself); and she never pursues Matteo at any point and is something of a FriendlyEnemy to him for most of the book, since she's trying to [[VillainTakesAnInterest manipulate him into doing something for her]] - once again, it's ''Tzigone'' she's after. In general, the blurb gets ''everything'' wrong aside from the names of the main character an a few locations.
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* Blurbs for Franchise/ForgottenRealms novels from the 2000s were often notoriously misleading or just plain wrong. Take the blurb from ''[[Literature/CounselorsAndKings The Magehound]]'', for example. It describes example, which says:
** That the main protagonist, Matteo, as a [[ManOfKryptonite non-magical]] counselor to TheMagocracy of Halruaa, which is fair enough... then describes him as discovering he has a spark of magical ability after all (he doesn't, that's his friend Andris, and even ''that'' turns out to be rather different than what it originallyseems), having seems).
** That he has to go on a run with only a "street waif" for a companion (that "street waif" is named Tzigone and she's arguably the ''real'' protagonist of the trilogy, having equal standing with Matteo at bare minimum and isn't a sidekick; Tzigone herself is a fugitive, but though she and Matteo have various misadventures they never go on the run together at all, as Matteo remains a counselor in good standing for the wholetrilogy) and that trilogy)
** That Matteo is pursued by "the Cabal" (the Cabal gets a couple of mentions in the book but is never explained and never takes any interest in Matteo; the sequels reveal that "the Cabal" isn't a conspiracy at all, but the codename of a powerful''artifact''). ''artifact'').
** That Matteois described as having has to go to the Swamp of Akhlaur to fight a monster and "seek his truth" (it's Tzigone's past that they go to the swamp to search for, not Matteo's, and she's more important than him in the fight with said monster). Finally, the monster). ** The blurb ends by saying that "something even worse is on his trail, a relentless persecutor of magic: The Magehound." ''All'' of this is wrong. "The Magehound" is named Kiva, and she's a person, not some sort of creature; she's ''a'' magehound, not ''the'' magehound, since "magehound" is just as slang term for an inquisitor and there are lots of them; her job is to enforce Halruaa's laws, not to "persecute magic" (as she's a mage herself); and she never pursues Matteo at any point and is something of a FriendlyEnemy to him for most of the book, since she's trying to [[VillainTakesAnInterest manipulate him into doing something for her]] - once again, it's ''Tzigone'' she's after. In general, the blurb gets ''everything'' wrong aside from the names of the main character an a few locations.
** That the main protagonist, Matteo, as a [[ManOfKryptonite non-magical]] counselor to TheMagocracy of Halruaa, which is fair enough... then describes him as discovering he has a spark of magical ability after all (he doesn't, that's his friend Andris, and even ''that'' turns out to be rather different than what it originally
** That he has to go on a run with only a "street waif" for a companion (that "street waif" is named Tzigone and she's arguably the ''real'' protagonist of the trilogy, having equal standing with Matteo at bare minimum and isn't a sidekick; Tzigone herself is a fugitive, but though she and Matteo have various misadventures they never go on the run together at all, as Matteo remains a counselor in good standing for the whole
** That Matteo is pursued by "the Cabal" (the Cabal gets a couple of mentions in the book but is never explained and never takes any interest in Matteo; the sequels reveal that "the Cabal" isn't a conspiracy at all, but the codename of a powerful
** That Matteo
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* Blurbs for Franchise/ForgottenRealms novels from the 2000s were often notoriously misleading or just plain wrong. Take the blurb from ''[[Literature/CounselorsAndKings The Magehound]]'', for example. It describes the main protagonist, Matteo, as a [[ManOfKryptonite non-magical]] counselor to TheMagocracy of Halruaa, which is fair enough... then describes him as discovering he has a spark of magical ability after all (he doesn't, that's his friend Andris, and even ''that'' turns out to be rather different than what it originally seems), having to go on a run with only a "street waif" for a companion (that "street waif" is named Tzigone and she's arguably the ''real'' protagonist of the trilogy, having equal standing with Matteo at bare minimum and isn't a sidekick; Tzigone herself is a fugitive, but though she and Matteo have various misadventures they never go on the run together at all, as Matteo remains a counselor in good standing for the whole trilogy) and that Matteo is pursued by "the Cabal" (the Cabal gets a couple of mentions in the book but is never explained and never takes any interest in Matteo; the sequels reveal that "the Cabal" isn't a conspiracy at all, but the codename of a powerful ''artifact''). Matteo is described as having to go to the Swamp of Akhlaur to fight a monster and "seek his truth" (it's Tzigone's past that they go to the swamp to search for, not Matteo's, and she's more important than him in the fight with said monster). Finally, the blurb ends by saying that "something even worse is on his trail, a relentless persecutor of magic: The Magehound." ''All'' of this is wrong. "The Magehound" is named Kiva, and she's a person, not some sort of creature; she's ''a'' magehound, not ''the'' magehound, since "magehound" is just as slang term for an inquisitor and there are lots of them; her job is to enforce Halruaa's laws, not to "persecute magic" (as she's a mage herself); and she never pursues Matteo at any point and is something of a FriendlyEnemy to him for most of the book, since she's trying to [[VillainTakesAnInterest manipulate him into doing something for her]] - once again, it's ''Tzigone'' she's after. In general, the blurb gets ''everything'' wrong aside from the names of the main character an a few locations.
