Jane Eyre in the PGA awards and other news

We're in the middle of the awards season and, one by one, all the different groups in showbiz give their awards. Now it's the Producers Guild of America's turn to nominate Jane Eyre 2006:

19TH ANNUAL PRODUCERS GUILD AWARDS

THE DAVID L. WOLPER PRODUCER OF THE YEAR AWARD IN LONG-FORM TELEVISION
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" (HBO)
"The Bronx Is Burning" (ESPN)
"High School Musical 2" (Disney Channel)
"Jane Eyre" (PBS/BBC)
"The Starter Wife" (USA Network)

The awards will be known next February 2 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

In other news, we read on The Varsity, how Jill Matus has been appointed as Universtiy of Toronto's new vice-provost of students. Ms Mattus is the author of several articles on the Brontës (for instance "Looking at Cleopatra: The Expression and Exhibition of Desire in Villette." Victorian Literature and Culture 21: 345-67) , Unstable Bodies: Victorian Representations of Sexuality and Maternity and The Cambridge Companion of Elizabeth Gaskell.

The Chicago Maroon reviews a theatrical adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw:

In the novel, the rakish bachelor who hires a governess for his niece and nephew is often talked about but not directly seen. The Writers’ Theatre production opens with a strange, disconcerting interview between him and the aspiring governess. Kymberly Mellen plays the young woman, full of trepidation, hope, and romantic fancy as she is interviewed by the bachelor (LaShawn Banks). Described in the novel as charming, gay, and kind, the bachelor of the play is aggressive, cold, and somewhat forward, yet powerfully attractive. He is more like Rochester of Jane Eyre than Willoughby of Sense and Sensibility. This strikes me as a compelling change given the governess’s taste for romance and her allusion, in the novel, to Jane Eyre itself. In this play, she even openly entertains notions of romance with the bachelor, something only indirectly alluded to in the novel. (Ben Rossi)

On the blogosphere, we must first report a comment published on AustenBlog related to the US broadcast of an edited (!) version of Persuasion 2007:

Nina Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:58 pm San Diego’s PBS station kept announcing it as ‘Charlotte Bronte’s epic Persuasion‘.

We are speechless.

Daily Movie Recommendation chooses Jane Eyre 2006 for today. Book Blog briefly reviews Mardi McConnochie's Coldwater. Would I Lie to You Just to Get into Your Pants?? (sic) reviews some zombie films including Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie (1943):

An ingenious development of the Jane Eyre backstory, Jacques Tourneur’s melodrama uses the brooding mysticism of the Caribbean as the exotic setting for his voodoo masterpiece. (Paolo Cabrelli)

Time travel makes my head hurt... posts about one of those topics that resurfaces from time to time: Rochester vs Darcy. She prefers the former. The Metaphorical Beatdown is not very impressed with Jane Eyre.

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