On the news, today:
Jane Eyre(s). Chronologically:
The original novel, that
Jeannine Garsee, author of Before, After, and Somebody in Between, chooses as one of her favourites in
this interview by Little Willow.
Historical/Present comments the 1934 (very) Hollywood film version of
Jane Eyre. A very fine review:
This is a dull little film. Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive give it their best, and the performances are adequate to the requirements of the script. There are some good supporting performances, but nobody has the time or enough lines to do much with their parts. I don't see how they managed to make Jane Eyre into a film without a story, but they mashed together a lot of choppy scenes and called it a wrap. There is a reason we had not heard of this version of Jane Eyre. (Read more) (Fay Sheco)
Classic Montgomery posts the 1948 Lux Radio Theater version (aired on June 14, 1948) of Jane Eyre. With Ingrid Bergman as Jane and Robert Montgomery as Rochester. You can listen to it
here.
And finally, more
icons from the last BBC adaptation. Courtesy of Ginger001.
Other news of the day include:
Charlotte Brontë as a character in
this new theatrical performance of Craig Sodaro's Murder by the Book (more information on
this old post).
This year's Bonner Springs High School spring play will be a killer.
The story, "Murder by the Book," centers around the Raven Society, which gathers every year to select the best mystery book of the year. The members all dress as iconic writers, from Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson to Charlotte Bronte and Edgar Allan Poe. (Jesse Truesdale on The Chieftain)
The Brontës as clichés. Look at
this review of the most recent Eddy Murphy's comedy, Norbit:
He is married, for some reason, to Godzilla...I mean, Rasputia, a shrieking, scowling terror, her limbs dripping with fat, played by Murphy with enough head swivels, angrily wagged fake fingernails, and sassafras ''attitude'' to make Martin Lawrence's Big Momma and Tyler Perry's Madea look like the Brontë sisters. (Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly)
More on the
Emmerdale's Wuthering Heights twins:
Bad weather meant that the birth of Viv Hope’s Emmerdale twins couldn’t be filmed on the Yorkshire Moors as planned.
Tony Audenshaw, who plays Viv’s husband Bob, told us: “We tried filming the scene in the middle of the moors but the weather was just too bad. " (...)
"We're using four babies to play the twins...They're going to be called Heathcliffe (sic) and Cathy because of Wuthering Heights as they were born on the moors. But there is all sorts of speculation about their names and whether they're going to be called David and Victoria after the Beckhams, or even Emma and Dale!"
The birth will occur on tomorrow's episode of the soap. (Derek Robins in The Sun)
Categories: Audio-Radio, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, In the News, Movies-DVD-TV, Theatre, Wuthering Heights
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