Crazies are the best in bed

The Greensboro News & Record republishes news from 75 years ago (November 1934) and we find this curious one:

The Dolley Madison Club of Madison voted unanimously to donate 24 books to the Rockingham County Library at a meeting that also heard Mrs. W.T. Lanten talk about the life of Charlotte Bronte. (Jack Scism)

The Twilight phenomenon arrives in Sri Lanka, Brontë mentions included:

Still, she [Stephanie Meyer] was compelled to continue the story of the young couple. She named the boy Edward, after Charlotte Bronte’s Mr. Rochester and Jane Austen’s Mr. Ferrars and the girl Isabella – a name she had reserved for the daughter she never had. (Smriti Daniel in The Sri Lanka Sunday Times)

The Independent talks about young Hollywood actors and Ed Westwick and his attachment to a Wuthering Heights film project is mentioned:

He is due to tackle the ultimate romantic lead, Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights next year. (Kate Youde)

Probably the author of this article on Lemondrop will cry with joy after reading the previous news as she chooses Heathcliff among the (verbatim) literary characters we'd totally sleep with:

Heathcliff, "Wuthering Heights." So brooding. So dark. So smoldering sexy. Even if he went all bipolar on us, let's be honest: Crazies are the best in bed. (Andrea Zimmerman)

The most recent Cathy on film/TV, Catherine Riley is also the subject of an article in The Times:

Her Cathy in the recent television adaptation of Wuthering Heights is spirited and complex, her large, expressive eyes overflowing with torment as she is torn between her one true love and her choice of comfort and safety. (...)
Studying clowning in Paris is, of course, another thing that rising stars don’t do. She even opted for it in the face of American excitement over her role in Wuthering Heights, perhaps because of the uncomfortable side effects. “Wuthering Heights came out in America in January, and I made the mistake of going online.” She shudders. “That messed my head up for a week. I don't look at anything now. Some people were actually complaining that I looked too clean and that my skin was too good for Cathy. The internet just gives me anxiety, and it doesn’t do anything for my wellbeing. If you hear nice things about you, it’s not good for you. If you hear bad things, it’s not good for you.” (Stephen Armstrong)

As you can see on our sidebar, Wuthering Heights 1939 will be broadcast on TCM today, November 15. The New York Post describes the film like this:

Emily Bronte’s tale of Cathy and Heathcliff (Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier), a gentleman farmer’s daughter and the orphan boy he takes in. The two grow up as soulmates — until Cathy’s brother becomes lord of the manor, and makes Heathcliff a stable boy. Cathy marries rich but lives to regret it when hunky Heathcliff returns as a rich man and Cathy’s stuck with stuffy. (Linda Stasi)

The Scotsman degrades Gordon Brown from Heathcliff to Dobby (the house-elf):

Once a brooding Heathcliff – in his own estimation at least – he now seems to have more in common with the hapless and self-loathing house elf Dobby in the Harry Potter books. (Dani Garavelli)

Another Heathcliff having a hard time is Martin Johnson, England's rugby team manager:

Who would have thought that Martin Johnson, old beetle-browed Heathcliff himself, would turn into the master of mirth. You see Johnno had spent all afternoon biting his fingernails, hiding his head in his hands and generally behaving like a tortured adolescent when he came up with a one-liner for the ages. (Mark Reason in The Telegraph)

We already knew that the author Lauren Baratz-Logsted was a Brontëite. Reality Bites. . . Fiction Does It Better! confirms it:

Can you tell us some of your favorite books?
Some of my favorite YA authors are Lisa McMann, Alyson Noel, A.S. King, Laurie Halse Anderson, Sarah Dessen and Ellen Hopkins. I also love the classics, particularly those written by Austen and the Brontes.

A Brontëite in The Allentown Morning Call, The Valve approaches Wuthering Heights (among others) from Claude Lévi-Strauss work on myth. Le Projet d'Amour posts about Hurlevent 1985 with several stills. Jucus' Home reviews Wuthering Heights (in Hungarian, Üvöltő szelek) and Bahía Salitre (in Spanish) posts about her love for the novel. Fickle Words talks about Villette. Iconzicons posts icons from Jane Eyre 1997.

Some new pictures on line: Leeds Daily Photo uploads the Cupola from the Bell Chapel in Thornton and on Flickr Anne Brontë's tomb in Scarborough.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Villette, Wuthering Heights