Honorary Brontë Sister

Australia is still debating Wuthering Heights 2009. As seen in The West Australian:

Far better, I think, to stick to, say, Wuthering Heights, where the worst that happened was being assailed by a most unsatisfactory Heathcliff and a script which took far too many liberties with the book. Not a bit of guilt anywhere. Phew. (Pam Casellas)

Meanwhile the Indian Express seems to have given the title of 'Honorary Brontë Sister' to Bollywood actress Vidya Balan.

The Honorary Bronte Sister Recognition
Vidya Balan at a Paa promotional event
Vidya seems to be channelling a Victorian-era heroine in her attempt to move away from her boring old kurtas. Unfortunately for her, the experiment is not quite successful and this long kurta-meets-nightgown is actually making us nostalgic for her patented anarkalis. The bizarre patchwork at the sleeves and the hem and those ultra ugly platform heels are doing the actress no favours and neither is the messy Jane Eyre hairdo.

Pictures of the Paa promotional event can be seen here (we think they are from the event they are talking about). It does take some imagination to write such a description, we must say.

The Dayton Baby Boomer Examiner has 'ten ways Baby Boomers can avoid losing weight'. One of them is:

10. Dress badly. Convince yourself you are just a "lump of coal" (as the Bronte sisters would say), not a diamond in the rough. (Cynthia Rush)

Mmmmkay.

The Times presents the new BBC drama Garrow's Law like this:

In place of the dire Sunday Austen-Brontë romance, we are being offered another costume drama, but this time the drama is actually written for television, for an audience that doesn’t have to suspend its entire cultural experience to enjoy it. (AA Gill)

Many Wuthering Heights-y things on the blogosphere today: Shelf Love posts about the audiobook, Radio Darkness writes about the latest screen adaptation and also praises Josh Pyke's cover of Kate Bush's song, Today I Read has uploaded a pencil sketch of Cathering, Edgar and Heathcliff and My World of Literature posts a combined essay of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Mt Hope Chronicles writes about Jane Eyre too and Fidget reviews Shirley. Finally, Pining for the West discusses Glyn Hughes's Brontë.

YouTube user unlimitednuralisya has uploaded a copuple of behind-the-scenes clips from the Tokyo production of Jane Eyre the Musical: first part, second part.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Theatre, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights