{"id":4055,"date":"2015-12-18T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2015-12-18T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:25:19","slug":"michael-moorcock-presents-the-jack-trevor-story-memorial-cup-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2015\/12\/18\/michael-moorcock-presents-the-jack-trevor-story-memorial-cup-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moorcock Presents The Jack Trevor Story Memorial Cup Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

The occasion of Michael Moorcock’s birthday got me thinking about a little known aspect of the extraordinary polymath ‘s award-winning career: <\/span>The Jack Trevor Story Memorial Cup Award<\/b><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michael Moorcock presenting the The Jack Trevor Story Memorial Award Cup to Howard Waldrop (photo: Elze Hamilton<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Maintained and awarded by Moorcock, The Jack Trevor <\/span>was originally<\/span> presented to the writer of the story in the Time Out series of London stories that he best like<\/span>d. I<\/span>n more recent times, a special committee, organized by Moorcock, determines the winner, typically for excellence in humorous writing.<\/span> The five hundred guinea prize is given with the following conditions: The entire award must be spent \u201cin a week to a fortnight\u201d and the recipient must have nothing to show for it. Most winners use the money for a big night or a foreign vacation. One winner, a trawlerman from Hull who spent the money with the expertise of a drunken sailor before he got home, had to spend the money all over again just to prove to his shipmates that he’d won it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Cup awarded to Steve Aylett (photo: John Coulthart)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

The unique terms of the award are based on Jack Trevor Story<\/a>‘s famous words when asked at his second bankruptcy what\u00a0happened to money from his films The Trouble with Harry<\/em> and Live Now, Pay Later<\/em>. The judge wondered\u00a0how he managed to go through so much without having a thing to show for it. <\/span><\/p>\n

You know how it is, your honour \u2011\u2011 two hundred or two thousand \u2011\u2011 it always lasts a week to a fortnight. You can spend a couple of hundred easy just going around the supermarket.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Past\u00a0winners have included\u00a0Fred Normandale<\/a>,\u00a0Steve Aylett<\/a>, Nicholas Lezard<\/a>, and Howard Waldrop<\/a> (the only American so honored).\u00a0<\/span>The memorial cup is just that. A cup with the words <\/span>Jack Trevor Story Memorial Cup<\/i><\/span> written on the side in magic marker.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The occasion of Michael Moorcock’s birthday got me thinking about a little known aspect of the extraordinary polymath ‘s award-winning career: The Jack Trevor Story Memorial Cup Award.   Maintained and awarded by Moorcock, The Jack Trevor was originally presented … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[185,188,184,67,187,186,183],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-moorcock","tag-fred-normandale","tag-howard-waldrop","tag-jack-trevor-cup-story","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-nicholas-lezard","tag-steve-aylett","tag-the-jack-trevor-story-memorial-cup-award"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n