It is excellence that lasts

We seem to have reached a point where it's not so weird anymoe to find Brontë mentions in the sports sections. Thus, Simon Barnes, Chief Sports Writer at The Times, makes the following point about quality vs. quantity:

All sporting administrators must be forced to watch one of those American “comedy” programmes that lasted for several thousand episodes. Let them watch all 236 episodes of Friends, or maybe all 273 of Cheers. And after that, they must see all 12 of Fawlty Towers. The difference between quantity and quality may then become apparent.
Instead — or maybe as well — they can read all 80 Agatha Christie novels and then a single novel by one of the great one-novel wonders of literary life: Sylvia Plath, Emily Brontë, Oscar Wilde. After such a literary assault course, you should be able to see something clearly — that while consistency has its merits, it is excellence that lasts.

Now for something else. House returns and Los Angeles Times describes 'his' Psychiatric Hospital as follows:

The exterior of the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital may look like something from a Brontë novel, but inside it's a clean and functional if not precisely pleasant place. . . (Mary McNamara)

The New Yorker reviews Daniel Goldfarb's play The Retributionists, currently on stage at Playwright Horizons in New York. Two characters discuss a draft:

SAMUEL: I don’t know, can you try and make it more like “Withering Heights”?
GAR: “Wuthering Heights”? No. (Hilton Als)

Another play - this time a regular of BrontëBlog due to its Brontë refrences - The Mystery of Irma Vep goes on stage too until October 31st at Swift Creek Mill, Colonial Heights, Virginia, as reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

On the blogosphere, Strictly Letters reviews Syrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë.

Categories: Books, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights