REBELS had captured the dam that supplied electricity to Kinshasa and turned off the lights in the Congolese capital. Now they were marching on the city. Panic reigned. Pro-government thugs were going ...
Malcolm McDowell as Flashman in Royal Flash, directed by Richard Lester in 1975 - Alamy “I like film people, and their crazy trade,” George MacDonald Fraser wrote in his memoir after his screenwriting ...
Looking back over the nearly 40 years since I first found myself immersed in a Flashman story, perhaps the single most striking thing about the experience is the date. It somehow didn’t seem to “fit,” ...
The novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman adventure stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said. The popular books saw womanising anti-hero Sir Harry Flashman, fight his way ...
Fox is going back to the 1830s and is developing “Flashman,” a movie based on the period novels by George MacDonald Fraser and setting it up with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free and Peter Chernin’s Chernin ...
Sir Harry Paget Flashman couldn’t have put it better. George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman novels, branded political correctness an ‘insidious’ and ‘dishonest’ evil as big a threat to free ...
Dominic West has called for the “spectacularly politically incorrect” Flashman novels to be given the Hollywood film treatment and introduced to a new generation of readers. West said the books, by ...
Women, to Flashman, are either sweet imbeciles, or bless their black hearts deceitful strippers. Small wonder, then, that the Flashman books of George Macdonald Fraser are not generally thought to ...
Labour call David Cameron ‘Flashman’ – Ed Miliband repeated the joke at Prime Minister’s Questions. But how wounding is it as a nickname? Mr Cameron himself chuckled, as well he might. ‘Flashman’ ...
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