A novel of his entitled "The Story of An African Chief," was published by Scribner's, after being discovered by William Lyon Phelps in 1934.
When a slimy producer blacklists a ditzy starlet for rejecting his porcine advances, a furious young lawyer (Nell Ruttledge) embarks on a legal crusade to make him, and his entitled ilk, pay.
Bassist Eric Rockwin appears to have written all the maddest tunes; a piece of his entitled Underbidder begins with gunshot snare rolls before turning into a sludgy homage to King Crimson, complete with terrifying swathes of guitar and saxophone.
The gap may have narrowed since then, and the reaction has been a blast of anti-Ed stories portraying him as a swivel-eyed baby Bennite, a child insurrectionist compared with his entitled dauphin of a bro.
It's an equal-opportunities kind of despondence: son Orlando, with his entitled whinging about his parents' cyber loft – "Do you want to talk about how your midlife crisis is eroding my inheritance?" – makes you both wonder both at the patience of Al and our fetishisation of youth.
Stag, the work of Jim Field Smith (who directed hit BBC2 comedy The Wrong Mans) and co-writer George Kay (The Hour, My Mad Fat Diary), follows Campbell Moore's posh groom and his entitled, pampered stag party on a hunting expedition in the Scottish Highlands.
