Portentously Gothic weather patterns

Keighley News announces the change of name and scope of the Haworth Traders Association:

The chairman of Haworth Village Association said the organisation was keen to move beyond its previous focus on local retail concerns.
Robin Jackson said the group — which has changed its name from the Haworth Traders Association to highlight its switch of emphasis — now has a new logo and constitution.
He told the Brontë Country Partnerhip meeting it aimed to embrace other community groups in the area.
He said association members had put a lot of effort into organising this year’s Christmas festivities, but added he felt some of the events could benefit from better planning and co-ordination. He also showed his BCP colleagues a copy of the publicity leaflet for next year’s Haworth 1940s weekend. It will take place on May 16 and 17. (Miran Rahman)

Precisely on the Haworth Village website there are pictures of this year's Torchlight Procession and information about the Christmas services in all Haworth churches, including St. Michael and All Angels, of course.

Andrew Dunn reviews Laura Miller's The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia for Bloomberg and makes the following comment:

[Quoting Laura Miller]“The author who can make a world for a reader -- make him believe that the people, places and events he describes are, if anything, truer than his real, immediate surroundings -- that author is someone with a mighty power indeed,” she writes. “Who can doubt that every literary encounter they have afterward must somehow be colored by it?”
I can, for one. My childhood literary treasure is “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” a gift from my grade-school teacher, Mr. Tribe. However exhilarating I found, and still find, Douglas Adams’s mad universe, I can’t honestly say the book informed my response to “Jane Eyre” 25 years later. “Wuthering Heights”? Maybe.

See Magazine reviews John Patrick Shanley's film Doubt and, describing the director's mise en scène, slips a Brontë reference:

As a director (this is the first time he’s stepped behind the camera since 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano), Shanley hammers home his points too loudly, whether he’s making an obvious contrast between the nuns at dinner and the priests rowdily joking and smoking as they dig into their blood-red slabs of beef, or shooting Streep from an ominous low angle, as if she were Vincent Price in The Witchfinder General. (He also gives Doubt the most portentously Gothic weather patterns since Wuthering Heights.) (Paul Matwychuk)

The Telegraph goes further and dares to find the perfect resting place for Heathcliff:

Serene. That's the word. Nova Scotia is serene. Even Heathcliff would find eternal peace there. (Ashley Slater)

Also in The Telegraph we read the following statement by Lynda LaPlante which sounds quite familiar:

"Personally, I'd love to do historical drama, but I'm not allowed," she harrumphs. "I'd love to hear someone say, 'What else have you got?' and I'd say, 'Well, I've been researching Mata Hari for five years now' or 'I've got a new take on Wuthering Heights'. But nobody wants to know. A completely unknown 18-year-old stands a better chance of having that kind of project done than I would right now." (Tim Walker)

Stacy's Bookblog talks about Jane Eyre 1983, the crazy world of bec reviews briefly the original novel. Finally, Angel in The Dark publishes new information about Mark Ryan's Wuthering Heights musical project:

This week Robb Vallier and I went back into the studio to finish up work on two more tracks for Wuthering Heights. Once again Robb has done an amazing job with the arrangements and production on: “I Am The Man” and “Kiss The Moon.” Both tracks are unique and yet hold true to the starkly emotional themes and symbolism running through Emily Bronte’s powerful novel. (...)

The blog also publishes Katie Boeck's (Isabella in the musical) opinion of the musical:

I sent in my headshot and resume and Mark sent me a couple of songs to listen to. I absoulutely fell in love with them from the minute I heard them. The character of Isabella especially interested me and the music Mark had written for her part was just beautiful. Mark and I spoke and he wanted to make sure that I understood the magnitude of sheer emotion that comes with playing these characters. He really stressed the dramatic intention he wanted to come through in the characters' voices.(Read more)

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