Mr. Brontë with Blue Suede Shoes and more

We are flooded with Brontë news and mentions today! Here are a few fast tidbits.

Remember this? Well, Keighley News has some more 'romantic' Brontë Parsonage anecdotes:

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Growing numbers of wannabe Heathcliffs are proposing to their loved ones on the steps of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, at Haworth.
Now the museum hopes in the future to obtain a licence enabling couples to marry within the parsonage.
Museum director Alan Bentley said: "We have had a real flurry recently - I think it's the romantic element of the novels that draws people.
"We've also had newlyweds having their photos taken on our lawn and there was a French couple who wanted to visit Charlotte's room following a marriage blessing at the parish church (Alistair Shand)

We are not very sure if we really like this Las Vegas-like future of the Brontë Parsonage. The parson will be dressed as Mr. Brontë or Elvis? What about both? Yes, we can see it, Mr. Brontë with toupee... Well, it's one for the money...

Halifax Today reports that Brontë biographer Juliet Barker and others have won their battle againts the planned eco-village in Colden Valley.

Now for something a good many readers will appreciate: an article from The Guardian entirely devoted to the latest Mr Rochester, no other than Toby Stephens himself, who especially talks about going back on stage. Enjoy!

And what do you make of this modern, Bridget-Jones like version of Jane Eyre that appears in a review of TV series Starter Wife in the New York Times? The whole thing is in a parenthesis.

(If “Jane Eyre” were written according to today’s rules, the orphaned governess would be dragged to a bar by two female friends and a gay male pal and plied with mixed drinks and pool boys until she forgot all about Mr. Rochester and his mad starter wife.) (Alessandra Stanley)

I wonder how come she doesn't make Jane Eyre wake up by St John Rivers the following morning. So no, we don't like it.

DVD Talk reviews Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniversay Collection which features six movies not previously available on DVD. When looking at Vincente Minnelli's Undercurrent (1946) they find similarities with Wuthering Heights.

The plot has more in common with Victorian melodramas like Wuthering Heights and the work of Daphne Du Maurier (and her frequent adapter Alfred Hitchcock) than it does the moody expressionism of Fritz Lang or Jules Dassin. (Jamie S. Rich)

Talking about Wuthering Heights. Remember the Puppini Sisters' version of Kate Bush's original song? We actually like the song - it's fun - but the reviewer at the New York Times doesn't much care for it live.

Other songs like Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” and the Smiths’ “Panic” were flattened under the stylistic steamroller. (Stephen Holden)

A couple of reviews. Random Incoherent Mumblings writes about Wuthering Heights. And Lilly et ses livres writes - in French - about Stancliffe's Hotel, part of Charlotte's juvenilia (published in French in 2004)

Finally an alert for tonight from Bath Township, Ohio, taken from Akron Beacon Journal.

Plastered Masters Book Group -- 7 tonight, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 4015 Medina Road, Bath Township. Charlotte Bronte's Villette will be discussed. Free. 330-665-5199.

Categories: Alert, In the News, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Villette, Wuthering Heights