In
fact, he is
about as good as my granny, dead for the last 12 years and therefore hard to distinguish,
beard apart, from Walcott who has been effectively dead as any use to our club for 12 years also.
What excites Callow
about the film is that people's notion of Dickens as a
bearded older, stuffy Victorian writer, will be changed as in
fact he was a father of four, handsome, witty and lively guy who completed the novel at age 31.