Top Withins, centre of the earth

Two new Brontëites for our ever-growing list:

The Independent publishes an interview with Brian Blessed, president of the Council for National Parks and this what he says:

Favourite place in the British Isles?
Top Withins, near Haworth, in real Brontë country. I like the stark isolation and the grandeur. It's the centre of the earth for me.

(Stark isolation, see?)

And another Brontëite, this one totally unexpected, Walter Hill. Yes, the director of action movies like The Warriors, The Driver, 48 hours or Streets of Fire or westerns like Wild Bill surprises us when he says in this interview published in L.A. Weekly:

As this bearish-looking, graceful conversationalist reminded me during a recent interview at the Polo Lounge, “Wuthering Heights is one of the most violent stories anybody has ever cooked up.”

Well, maybe this is not enough to call him an official Brontëite, but we were so surprised that we cannot avoid the mention.

Note: Picture courtesy of this website.

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