Rubbish and Stupiditiy

Batley News has a local complaint rendered worse by the shooting of the new ITV version of Wuthering Heights:

TELEVISION stars may be faced with a disappointing view of Birstall as rubbish lays strewn along Nutter Lane.

Oakwell Hall Country Park is being used to film a new ITV adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, which is to feature Coronation Street star Sarah Lancashire, Andrew Lincoln, best known as Egg in This Life and Tom Hardy who starred in Band of Brothers.
The stars and their crew will be visiting the historic hall for nine full days of filming, and are more than likely to see the household rubbish which has been dumped at the side of the road. (Rebecca Draper)

Newcastle's The Journal has something to say about the Heathcliffgate:

REGULAR readers of this column will know that I am not the Prime Minister’s biggest fan. Even I, however, cannot help feel that he is being unfairly treated over what we might call “The Heathcliff Affair”, or maybe even “Brontegate”.
In an interview with the New Statesman magazine, when asked if people were right to compare him to Heathcliff, the anti-hero of the novel Wuthering Heights, Mr Brown said it was “absolutely correct”, adding – no doubt hastily – “Well, maybe an older, wiser Heathcliff.”
Given that the interview was intended to soften the image of Mr Brown, it was unwise of him to admit any association with Emily Bronte’s tortured, brooding hero, who dug up the 17-year-old body of his former lover.
But, having said that, he plainly only wanted to be linked to the more positive aspects of Heathcliff’s personality, however difficult those are to discern. Certainly, his ill-judged comment hardly deserves such an outpouring of national derision. (Peter McCusker)

The Wicked Local Plymouth announces that at the Priscilla Beatch Theatre:

Enrollment is now open for Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte’s romantic classic adapted for the stage. Rehearsals start Monday, Aug. 4.

And now for something really stupid which is not even new. Some time ago we published this about The Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, New York. We don't know who was the genius that made up that Charlotte Brontë ever visited, from all places, New York but the story is hard to eradicate:

The century-old Roycroft Inn was recently renovated and opened to rave reviews. Featuring original Roycroft furniture and fixtures of exceptional quality, its unique guest rooms still bear the names of notable guests carved in their doors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charlotte Bronte, Henry David Thoreau, and Susan B. Anthony. (Marketwire)

Kamelin in Literatur-Forum reviews Wuthering Heights in German. Calenfalathiel posts in Anglophile Icons a set of Jane Eyre 2006 icons. Reading, Writing, Working, Playing is reading Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë. My mind is full is one of those very few who prefers St. John Rivers to Rochester. Edward Fairfax Rochester's Love for Jane Eyre has posted Chapter 11 of her story (taking Rochester's POV). Finally, SineBuano recommends The Promise, the Filipino free adaptation of Wuthering Heights premiered last year.

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