An obituary and other news

On the news today, we read in The Independent and The Telegraph, among several others, the obituary of Kieron Moore (1924-2007):

Kieron O'Hanrahan (Kieron Moore), actor: born Skibbereen, Co Cork 5 October 1924; married 1947 Barbara White (four children); died 15 July 2007.
Kieron Moore was a tall, brooding and ruggedly handsome actor with an imposing presence. (...) At the age of 19 he made his English début at Richmond Theatre as Heathcliff in a dramatisation of Wuthering Heights - a role he recreated in a BBC TV production of the play in 1948. (Tom Vallance)

It seems that only a still photograph remains of that production. There's also an original ink drawing of Heathcliff outside Wuthering Heights in a Radio Times Cover (in the picture, source), signed by Ronald Searle.

The New York Daily News publishes a brief summary of the recently published "Shaggy Muses: The Dogs who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Bronte" (Ballantine Books) by Maureen Adams.

The Harry Potter frenzy slightly affects the Brontë news. We read on the Star Community Newspapers the following comment:

“I can see the point of them dying, since someone wrote a sequel to ‘Gone With the Wind’ after Margaret Mitchell died, but you kind of want the character to go on and be eternal, like Heathcliff [a character from Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’] or something, just always there,” she said. “I just need Harry to always be there.” (Katy Moore quoting Debbe France)

On the blogosphere: La Diva! talks about her own memories of reading Jane Eyre, The Musings of a Madman talks about Villette and Charlotte Brontë and You Pierce My Soul discusses Jane Eyre 2006 in French. Finally, El diario de Cumbres (the blog of the Argentinian opera rock production Cumbres Borrascosas) has new videos online.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Villette, Wuthering Heights