BrontëBlog: We're not pretty

Several news websites report the following anecdote concerning Jane Eyre 1970 from the recently published biography of George C. Scott, Rage and Glory: The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott, written by David Sheward.

GEORGE C. Scott seemed indomitable in movies like "Patton," but love scenes made him nervous. "Claire Bloom, Shirley MacLaine, Faye Dunaway and Carlin Glynn would all report Scott's discomfort," writes David Sheward in his new bio "The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott." Susannah York, who starred with Scott in "Jane Eyre," tells the author: "We were doing a love scene and he was being rather avuncular, paternal, and I said to him, 'No, no, George. You are my one true love and I am yours. Don't be paternal. Don't act like my father' . . . I would tease him a bit. But he didn't seem to be a person who would take very much teasing." (New York Post)

Booktrade repors that the recently published Classical Comics edition of Jane Eyre (illustrated by John M. Burns, text by Amy Corzine) has been nominated for a Cybil in the Young Adult graphic Novel section.

The actress Sally Hawkins, now in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, seems to know her Brontës in this interview for The Sacramento Bee:

Excited about visiting the Bay Area for the first time, she's delighted to hear that the fog that often shrouds the Golden Gate Bridge, which she is about to cross for a Mill Valley Film Festival-related event, can sometimes create a Brontë- esque effect. "Oh, fantastic! I'll be out there, wailing at night, with my big scarf, calling for Heathcliff." (Carla Meyer)

The Independent talks about the so-called new literature of atonement:

India Knight has many such "cutting back" tips to share in The Thrift Book (Fig Tree, £14.99). I once saw "The India" in her pomp, in full pink silk sail, her paintwork fresh and her brass gleaming. I was grubbing around on the foreshore of literary life and she was a gallant rig. It's a shame to see her now, trimming her sails to the economic wind and carrying a cargo of craft-work, free food and cheap-date tips. (...)
Reading Knight's money-saving hints, by the light of an energy-saving bulb while a damp, diseased log sulks on the fire, I think of all those half-starved Brontë heroines, swatting up on their German grammar beside cold, empty grates. (Susan Jeffreys)

The Guardian's film blog posts about the cinematic adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and the Brontë connection is, as usual, mentioned:

According to author Meyer, vampire Cullen is based on Jane Eyre's Rochester. (Lisa Marks)

More Brontëites, Sakaal Times discovers the author Sonja Chandrachud:

So was fantasy something that always attracted her? “I’ve been a day dreamer. Also, every time I read Wuthering Heights as a child, my mind used to wander. Then I remember throwing a party where I went with a ‘Tantra’ theme. So the house was done up accordingly in black and red, the food had peculiar names. It was great fun,” she remembers. (Sandhya Iyer)

The Village Voice makes a reference to a very bizarre cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, Jah Wurzel's:

The utter turkeys (Jah Wurzel covering “Wuthering Heights” springs to mind, as does anything featuring Ben Watt) merely make the unexpected gems all the more pleasurable

And finally, the Readerville Journal devotes a post to... erm... us:

A compendium of all things Brontë-related—all the Brontës—it is a bit overwhelming at first glance. And in fact, I haven’t been able to figure out who’s behind it. (...) Pretty it is not, but if you have a thing for the Brontës, you’ll find all that you could want and more. (Karen Templer)