The Verve lives near the Heights

Can you tell director M. Night Shyamalan is promoting his new film, The Happening? And he likes to speak of Wuthering Heights in passing too, as seen today in Time Out London.

After that I did "The Village". I was intrigued by "Wuthering Heights", and wanted to make it into a movie where people do something phenomenal. (Saroni Roy)

The Phoenix puportedly publishes a few early writings of their columnist David Thorpe. One of them is a hilarious essay on Wuthering Heights.

Emily Bronte’s book Wuthering Heights is the tale of a bunch of people with colds getting jiggy with each other at two houses on a lonesome heath somewhere in England, probably pretty close to where the Verve lives. The thesis of the story is that you get knocked down, you get up again — nobody can keep you down. For example, the main character Heathcliff has a hard-knock life like Jay Z, getting treated very badly by the people at da Heights, despite being a ghetto superstar because of his dark features and mysterious background. Before long, the karma police pay a visit, and Heathcliff gets rich, marries some shorty named Isabella, takes over da Heights, and is like “can I get a what what” meaning revenge on those who kept him from his biddy in the first place.
— excerpt from “Bittersweet Symphony: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights,” October 1998; grade: D+

And BBC News reveals that Patrick Brontë will soon have his own Blue Plaque in Wellington, Shropshire, where he was a curate at All Saints Church.

Vulpes Libris interviews Polly Shulman, author of Enthusiasm, a true Brontëite:

LEENA: Please recommend five books, and tell us a little about the choices!
POLLY: Okay, let’s see.
1. Villette, by Charlotte Bronte. This was my favorite book growing up. It’s darker than Jane Eyre, with a heroine who loses what she loves over and over again amid an atmosphere of passionate restraint.

Categories: Humour, Patrick Brontë, Wuthering Heights