Tuesday, October 26, 2004

"He was rarther a presumshious man"

I was just bumbling about on the internet this afternoon when I found this story on how Jim Broadbent brought The Young Visiters to the small screen. Never having heard of this work, I went here and started reading it. I can't believe I missed out on this great work when I was growing up! It's deliciously awful. Well, not really awful. But it was written by a 9-year-old and is lacking in punctuation and correct spelling. You can read the entire opus online. It's about an "elderly man of 42" and his ward trying to make it in Victorian-era society.

The Young Visiters will be making its stateside appearance in early November, and stars Jim Broadbent and Hugh Laurie (among others).