Inverted or not, a snob is a snob

The Arena Stage's performances of The Mystery of Irma Vep continue to generate reviews around:

Ludlum's creation, which borrows with abandon from such varied literary sources as Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" and Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," also draws on Victorian melodrama, a long line of horror movies such as "The Mummy's Curse" and "Dracula. There's even a hint of "Gone with the Wind" and "Deliverance," in this lively production directed by Rebecca Bayla Tachman. (Barbara Greiling in The News & Messenger)

Written in 1984, Vep is Ludlam’s campy send-up of Gothic horror films, stealing shamelessly from classics like Wuthering Heights, The Mummy’s Curse and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca. The hilarious result was named one of 1984’s best plays by both Time Magazine and The New York Times and has become one of the most-produced comedies in American theater. (Jeanne Theismann in The Alexandria Times)

The Halifax Courier presents Colin Drury, apparently Columnist of the Year at Regional Press
Awards and top favourite in BrontëBlog's nominations for the stupid comment of the year:

Inverted snob? Absolutely.
One thing I can guarantee I will never want to do before I die is kill my time reading Jane Eyre or watching Gone With The Wind so why even look at a book saying I should?

We wonder if his opinion would be the same if Jane Eyre was quoted on the cover of the British Sea Power's album The Decline of British Sea Power (see article). It's sad to restrict yourself to some self-imposed and arbitrary limits. Your loss.

Monsters & Critics interviews John Landis and Maggie Lawson. The director and main star of the episode In Sickness and In Health from the TV Show Fear Itself. The Blues Brother's director says:

I saw this as an opportunity. I called them. It was hard to work out but for me what’s exciting is this is a showpiece for Maggie Lawson because she’s playing a character so different than the character she plays on Psych and she carries the show. And James [Roday] is not the loveable, lighthearted, wise cracking guy he is on Psych. He’s more like Heathcliff in this one. (Interview by April MacIntyre)

L.A. Weekly reviews the current performances in L.A. of Adam Baum and the Jew Movie by Daniel Goldfarb and slips this enigmatic Brontë reference:

Gar [Garfield Hampson Jr, a character based on the blacklisted Ring Lardner Jr] faces a particularly vexing task: To write a Jewish movie from a non-Jewish perspective, a movie about anti-Semitism that looks like Wuthering Heights, one that can be sold to the heartland rather than to, as Sam sees Gar’s natural audience, “12 Jews in the Bronx” and a few “guilty Reds with gold watches.” (Steven Leigh Morris)

Mary Danielson on First Edition recommends Jane Eyre, Pitite Nou discusses Les Hauts de Hurlevent (Wuthering Heights in French). Finally, Read. Imagine.Talk interviews children's book author Linda Ashman who has a Brontëite past:

When I was a little older, some favorite books were The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Little Women, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights