Infinitely Dumb

PopcornBiz argues that Glenn Close and Meryl Streep are two strong candidates for next year's Best Actress Oscar but that doesn't exclude Mia Wasikowska:

Mia Wasikowska (who could be in the running for "Jane Eyre")[.] (Scott Ross)

Moira MacDonald in The Seattle Times couldn't agree more:

We're halfway through the movie year, and while most of the Oscar heavyweights won't be showing up until the fourth quarter, I think it's fun to consider who the winners might be if those statuettes were handed out right now. The envelope, please . . . .

Best picture: "Jane Eyre"
Best actress: Mia Wasikowska, "Jane Eyre"

Noelle's Nook and MooVz's Blog post about Jane Eyre 2011. The Ojai Post mentions a local screening of the film.

Robert M. Kaplan discusses humourously in Galus Australis the marketing process of his new book The Exceptional Brain and How it Changed History:

The title, I learned with excitement was to be The Exceptional Brain and How It Changed History. Marketing, the She Publisher said, in a tone used by the current pontiff when discussing Opus Dei, was very pleased with their efforts. Just how I felt about Marketing was mostly indescribable and, in any event, anatomically impossible. No wonder so many writers are not just depressed but positively suicidal. That, if nothing else, would explain such cheery works as Wuthering Heights, The Bell Jar or anything by J M Coetzee.

The Yorkshire Post interviews the author Wendy Holden who

[Grow] up near Haworth, home of the Brontës[.]

Same Same reviews the latest album by Stevie Nicks, In Your Dreams:

However, songs like Everybody Loves You and You May Be The One really drag and jar against the absolute brilliance of For What It’s Worth and Wide Sargasso Sea. (Augustus)

Not happy enough with one boutade, AfterEllen does it again. The whole idea is so dumb that it cannot be elaborated so it is repeated almost verbatim. It all comes from a recap of an episode from Pretty Little Liars:

Remember when Aria’s former babysitter came to town and tried to get her swerve on with Mr. Fitz? It was the episode when Emily got drunk, so it’s understandable if you’ve forgotten everything else. Anyway, Aria tells her old babysitter how grateful she is that she made her stop watching The O.C. to read Wuthering Heights, and oh, how I bristled at that. Because Josh Schwartz is an infinitely better storyteller than Emily Brontë, for one thing. (Heather Hogan)

Time is the best judge, of course. In a couple of decades, who do you think people will remember more: the author of The O.C. or Gossip Girl or the author of Wuthering Heights? (Don't laugh, please, we are trying to be serious here).

The Fence Viewer talks about the Acacia Repertory Theatre performances of The Mystery of Irma Vep in

“Irma Vep” is rife with running gags and crammed with literary and cinematic references, everything from Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and the Brontë sisters, to “Psycho.” (Melinda Rice)

Students taking part in a workshop for creative writing which, according to Knox Village Soup, includes

examples of characterization, setting and dialogue from the greats (Hemingway, Steinbeck, King, Emily Brontë) (Dagney Ernest)

R.Sikoryak is exhibiting some of his comic works at the Scottsdale Museum of Art, including The Crypt of Brontë; Emilee's Reading posts about Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre; bad reviews of good books, guanyinmiao's musings and Simply Books review Wuthering Heights; Books by their story, Sonder Books, shep by sarah jane elizabeth, Tea@elevensies, Cabelos ao Vento (in Portuguese) and Books to the Ceiling (Thoughts) post about Jane Eyre; Gitanesque reviews in Spanish Jane Eyre 1944; Kariannes Klinkekule talks about several Jane Eyre adaptations (in Norwegian); Marta Acosta celebrates the upcoming (June 2012) publication of her new novel Dark Companion which

is my homage to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, which I first "discovered" in the library when I was 13, and have read several times since. I was also influenced by Muriel Sparks' The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and my own experiences at an all-girls high school.

For the love of Austen reviews (and has an ongoing giveaway of) Jude Morgan's The Taste of Sorrow; Wrathsqueen's Books reviews April Lindner's Jane; alexeia_drae has read Rebecca Fraser's biography of Charlotte Brontë and comments on her personal Brontë experiences; Minlesglede is becoming more and more impressed by Charlotte Brontë's writing (in Norwegian); Anne's Pennine Way Walks visits Top Withens and Hebden Bridge.

Categories: Books, Haworth, Jane Eyre, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights