What do Malcolm McLaren and Boy George have in common?

It seems that the godfather of punk, the recently deceased Malcolm McLaren, had his own Brontë experiences early on according to his son Joe Corre who remembers this anecdote from his father's childhood in The Guardian:

His mother rejected him so he was brought up by his grandmother, who was a lunatic really. She shaped his whole world view. She had him reading Jane Eyre by the time he was five or six. He told us he only went to school for one day in his entire childhood. They gave him a Peter & Jane book to read and he thought they were imbeciles. (Joe Corre in conversation with Sean O'Hagan and Julien Temple)

The Daily Mail interviews the latest on-screen Jane Eyre, Ruth Wilson, who refers to her role on the 2006 BBC production:

In just four years since her BBC bib-and-bonnet debut as Jane Eyre, Ruth Wilson has established herself as the hottest – and arguably most fearless – actress of her generation. (...)
Picture, if you will, Jane Eyre from the BBC’s 2006 production quad-biking with her Prisoner co-star Sir Ian McKellen (‘What a dude’) (...)
She left Lamda in 2005, had a brief (though unforgettable) stint on the Channel Five comedy Suburban Shootout playing a semi-clad strumpet, and then landed her first lead in Jane Eyre opposite Toby Stephens. That yielded Bafta and Golden Globe nominations[.] (...)
Hers is a fascinating face, not a Barbie cut-out, and if it’s strength you want, start with her Jane Eyre. (...)
That’s not to say that she doesn’t do dressy, and on our photo shoot she gamely models teeny-tiny edgy numbers by up-and-coming fashion designers. And although in Jane Eyre she was distinctly unglam – ‘She needed that scrubbed-clean look; that’s the character’ – this year we’ll see another Ruth Wilson – both The Prisoner and Luther cast her more as a screen siren, and the face fits. The point is – and casting directors seem to have got the message – that, glam or gritty, this girl is at the top of the list. (Benji Wilson)

The New Jersey Star-Ledger remembers David Niven in the centenary of his birth. Talking about his role on Wuthering Heights 1939:

Less satisfying was the unsympathetic Edgar in “Wuthering Heights” — particularly when, trying desperately to cry on camera, Niven only unplugged a runny nose all over co-star Oberon — but it was a big film, and set him up for stardom. (Stephen Whitty)

The Guardian reviews the theatre performances of Tennessee Williams's Spring Storm in London:

There are three deaths in less than three hours, and yet the dialogue is limpid, natural. Sara Perks's design – a twisted tree against fluorescent skies – catches the starkness and the febrile possibilities of the play, like a Puritan Wuthering Heights. (Susannah Clapp)

The Independent interviews Boy George who remembers his stay in jail, where

While inside, he read all the books he had long wanted to but never made time for – Wuthering Heights, Catch-22, A Confederacy Of Dunces – and also kept a diary, wrote letters, and even penned a few songs (among them, "Amazing Grace"). (Nick Duerden)

The New Zealand Herald begins its review of No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson by Paul Millar thus:

Ezra Pound once remarked that a poet only has to write six great lines to be remembered forever. One great novel (Wuthering Heights?, Invisible Man?) might also do the trick. (Peter Simpson)

And... a Christian writer with a Brontë past in The New Straits Times (Malaysia); a new appearance of so called the Heathcliff of the hedgerows (aka Matthew Wilson) in the Times; Aneca's World reviews Jane Eyre 1983; bambi (in Swedish) posts about Jane Eyre and Libreggiando (in Italian) about Wuthering Heights. Simon & Schuster have released a book trailer where Sherri Browning Erwin presents her new book Jane Slayre.

Categories: Books, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Sequels, Wuthering Heights