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In the interests of objectivity, this article ought to mention that many people, especially critics, dislike Curtis' soppy, superficial output, and its fantasy view of Britain that's so obviously made to sell abroad, especially to the US. THere's a rather nice story (recounted in Matthew Sweet's book Shepperton Babylon) of director John Maybury grabbing Curtis by the lapels at some official function and accusing him of having ruined British cinema. Also, anyone who knows Notting Hill knows that, for the past fifty years or so, it's been a largely black/multi-cultural area; not something reflected in Curtis' silly, snobbish film. Dolmance (talk) 13:23, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Richard Curtis (screenwriter) → Richard Curtis — This page was originally at Richard Curtis but was moved to disambiguate from Richard Curtis (politician). However it is my opinion that the screenwriter is the more well known and brief look through the incoming links on Richard Curtis appear to mostly relate to the screenwriter rather than the politician. —Tim! 17:37, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
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We should only be looking at user-friendliness here. At the moment, we have over 100 incoming links to the screenwriter that annoyingly direct users to a dab page. The politician is currently in the news, but no doubt will quickly be less well-known; unless anyone has any overriding reason why we shouldn't make things easier for users (users looking for the politician would still have the same number of clicks to get there) I will move the page shortly. ELIMINATORJR 15:13, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
Why does it say he was born in England in his bio under the picture but Wellington, NZ in the actual article? Can we get some clarification please? Taifarious1 11:16, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Richard Curtis was 38 when he wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral, to call everything before that point "early" is rather sloppy. There's no mention either of his writing work with Tony Robinson, or a novelization of Squirm-I'll need to check on this, but the dates seem to match.
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The article says: “he won a scholarship to Harrow School, where, as head boy, he abolished fagging.[1][failed verification]”
Even if the citation didn’t fail, this would need changing. Curtis was not Head Boy at Harrow, he was head of his House - not the same thing at all. Luckily there is an excellent reference for this from The Times Educational Supplement in 2015 written by Curtis himself.[2] This purports to be about how Curtis was inspired in various ways by his Classics master at Harrow, James Morwood, but it contains much more besides, including why Curtis objected to fagging. I will be altering the article shortly to accord with the TES piece. Brymor (talk) 02:01, 18 June 2022 (UTC)