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Friday, November 25, 2005

WILDEAN II
[Scroll down for Wildean I]


[A]uthor and Cambridge graduate, Stephen Fry, has attacked [Cambridge’s] "ridiculous sense of elitism" and says it is full of "idiots who think they are in Brideshead Revisited."

"The best thing about having gone to Cambridge University was never having to deal with not going there," he said after receiving a honorary degree at the city's other higher education institution, Anglia Ruskin University, formerly Anglia Polytechnic.

'Stupid'

"That's the only advantage. Some of the most ineffably stupid people I've ever met went to Cambridge University, it's no guarantee of anything, it's pretty much a lottery."




Much as populist UD enjoys this sort of rhetoric, she must say it seems unsporting of Fry, whose recent spot-on portrayal of Oscar Wilde (here's Fry in a still from the film, sitting next to Jude Law, a dead ringer for the guy who played Sebastian Flyte in the BBC version of Brideshead) must have owed much to his time at Cambridge.

She also suspects he was trying to make Anglia Ruskin, formerly Anglia Polytechnic, feel better.
Posted at: 11/25/2005 07:27:00 AM