Possible Clues:

• Hamlet perhaps, desperate character chasing Ophelia's heart
• Alleged comedian Cook
• Half of Andersen's translated or all of him?
• ''Out of Africa'' author, for one
• Hamlet, for example, wavering and ultimately indecisive
• Frederiksberg resident
• Hamlet, notably
• Polonius, for one
• Caught in the tail-back, a foreigner
• European social event excludes Conservative