Out-Brontëing

The Yorkshire Post has an article about the TV-series The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury. Natalie Kemp is one of the cast members and the journalist highlights her appearance on Ken Russell's short Charlotte Brontë in the Big Brother House. A short film that according to Savage Messiah will become available (sooner or later) on YouTube.

Natalie was at Crawshaw High School, Pudsey, and going to weekly acting classes when she won a part in Charlotte Brontë in the Big Brother House, a short film directed by Ken Russell. (Sheena Hastings)

The Telegraph publishes Alberto Alonso's obituary. The Cuban choreographer was also responsible for a Wuthering Heights choreography in 1982:

Alberto Alonso, the Cuban choreographer who died in Florida on December 31 aged 90, was one of the triumvirate which from scratch made Cuba one of the great ballet nations; he also created one of the world's most famous ballets, Carmen Suite, for two celebrated prima ballerinas, the Bolshoi's Maya Plisetskaya and the Cuban Alicia Alonso, his sister-in-law. (...)
Among Alberto Alonso's many ballets for the Cuban ballet were Antes del Alba (1948), Rapsodia Negra (1953), Espacio y Movimiento (1966), El Güije (1967), Un retablo para Romeo y Julieta (1970), Conjugaciones (1970) and his 1982 version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Cumbres borrascosas, in which the 60-year-old Alicia Alonso played Catherine Earnshaw.

As you probably know, the Golden Globes ceremony has been cancelled due to the Hollywood writers' strike. The Evening Standard shares our concern:

The star-studded three-hour gala, broadcast live and one of the highlights of the Hollywood year after the Oscars, is being replaced by an hour-long press conference.(...)
A British agent, who represents some of the Golden Globe UK nominess said she felt sorry for the actors such as Ruth Wilson, who played Jane Eyre on the BBC and James McAvoy, and 14 year old in Saoirse Ronan, both from Atonement, who are being nominated for the first time. (Justin D. Facts)

The blogosphere brings today a brief praise of Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey on Equip Academy. Jane Eyre 2006 is the subject of posts on Image and Word, Grateful Dating and Rough Draft. Postman's Horn continues publishing Charlotte Brontë's letters, once a day. Krfilm posts a Thai translation of Jane Eyre.

Finally, the puzzling reference of the week. Check this witty comment in The Capital Times. The context? PBS's Jane Austen season:

[T]hings lighten up with an effervescent "Northanger Abbey" in which Austen out-Brontes the Bronte sisters with her gentle parody of gothic fiction. (Jane Burns)

Categories: Agnes Grey, In the News, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Translations, Wuthering Heights