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'''Morgan Merryweather''' is an entertainment correspondent for the [[Liberty Tree]] newspaper ( | '''Morgan Merryweather''' is an entertainment correspondent for the [[Liberty Tree]] newspaper (covering local and touring theatre productions) and host of the classical music station [[Double Clef FM]] in 2001 (setting of [[Grand Theft Auto III|GTA III]]). Morgan Merryweather is a stereotype of a pompous classical music afficionado, interspersing the tracks with references to his refined lifestyle. In 1998 he phones into Double Clef FM to complain about the program's present quality and host [[Sergio Boccino]]. Strangely, Morgan complains of the amount of music Sergio plays from Italian composers, yet Morgan plays the exact same amount of Italian music when he replaces Sergio in GTA III. | ||
By 2001, Morgan had replaced Boccino as host of Double Clef FM. His cultural references, however, are often incorrect. For instance, he at one point likens a piece of music to "Fellini's Lolita." Lolita was written by Vladimir Nabokov, and adapted for film once by Stanley Kubrick and again by Adrian Lyne. Federico Fellini never turned the book into a film. Moreover, Merryweather notes that he spent a summer "reading Proust in the original Italian." Marcel Proust wrote in French, not Italian. | By 2001, Morgan had replaced Boccino as host of Double Clef FM. His cultural references, however, are often incorrect. For instance, he at one point likens a piece of music to "Fellini's Lolita." Lolita was written by Vladimir Nabokov, and adapted for film once by Stanley Kubrick and again by Adrian Lyne. Federico Fellini never turned the book into a film. Moreover, Merryweather notes that he spent a summer "reading Proust in the original Italian." Marcel Proust wrote in French, not Italian. | ||
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Morgan Merryweather is an entertainment correspondent for the Liberty Tree newspaper (covering local and touring theatre productions) and host of the classical music station Double Clef FM in 2001 (setting of GTA III). Morgan Merryweather is a stereotype of a pompous classical music afficionado, interspersing the tracks with references to his refined lifestyle. In 1998 he phones into Double Clef FM to complain about the program's present quality and host Sergio Boccino. Strangely, Morgan complains of the amount of music Sergio plays from Italian composers, yet Morgan plays the exact same amount of Italian music when he replaces Sergio in GTA III.
By 2001, Morgan had replaced Boccino as host of Double Clef FM. His cultural references, however, are often incorrect. For instance, he at one point likens a piece of music to "Fellini's Lolita." Lolita was written by Vladimir Nabokov, and adapted for film once by Stanley Kubrick and again by Adrian Lyne. Federico Fellini never turned the book into a film. Moreover, Merryweather notes that he spent a summer "reading Proust in the original Italian." Marcel Proust wrote in French, not Italian.
For the Liberty Tree newspaper, he writes the Opera with Morgan Merryweather article in July 2001 and the Bayreuth Be Damned article in August 2001.