Okay, they don't really salute Rupert Graves, but they are salute Merchant Ivory - and without Rupert (and Helena Bonheim Carter) Merchant ivory would be just a line of upscale soap.
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Now Rupert put them on the map. First with this gesture which made me fall in love with him when I was just a young young punk in Los Angeles watching Room With A View at the Century City Odeon.
Then him generally in Rom With a View as the slightly annoying younger brother.
Then in Maurice when he was the slightly straggled groundskeeper Scudder who introduces Morris to the.. ahem.. physical aspect of the love that dare not speak it's name.
