Hmm... I Married Homer

The Ormskirk & Skelmersdale Advertiser is proud that a local actress is in the cast of the upcoming We Are Three Sisters play:

An Ormskirk actress is among a host of familiar faces from television who will be shining fresh light on the story of The Brontë sisters .
Fomer Scarisbrick Hall pupil Becky Hindley, who played teacher-turned-stalker Charlotte Hoyle in Coronation Street, will appear in the Northern Broadsides production of We Are Three Sisters at The Dukes in Lancaster from September 27-October 1. (Janine Yaqoob)

The Toronto Sun is worried about the decline of literacy:

Listen, Billy, if you don’t read books, who’s your favourite character in fiction?
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Ah, yes. Marge Simpson. The Jane Eyre of the new generation. (Mike Strobel)

About Jane Eyre 2011:

Village Soup Republican Journal:

This is a very solid adaptation by director Cary Fukunaga of the Charlotte Brontë novel. What he does differently is present the tale in flashbacks rather than the linear version we are more familiar with, and it works, as we dwell less on Jane’s being cut off emotionally by her aunt Mrs. Reed (Sally Hawkins) and her strict upbringing at a sadistic boarding school. It is all very Dickensian. (...) This is a handsome production. Extras include nine deleted scenes (16:52, including Adele’s background and a night visit by the story’s big secret); a look at making the film and another on the music by Dario Marianelli; a look at the cinematography by Adriano Goldman and lighting that helped create the gothic tone; and audio commentary by the director. (Tom Von Malder)

Thompson on Hollywood continues defending the chances of the movie for the next Oscars:

Going by this mid-year report—remember the fall season hasn’t started yet—the film that is currently in the lead for best picture is The Tree of Life. See the charts here. I’d argue that the films on this list that are most likely to land best picture nominations (anywhere from five to ten) are The Tree of Life, Midnight in Paris, The Help and Jane Eyre. (Anne Thompson)

The Brisbane Times is likely to be saying the truth when it says:

Ultra-violent, but in that congenial, comic-book kind of way, the only people likely to be disappointed by Conan the Barbarian are those who have walked into the wrong cinema expecting to see Jane Eyre. (Jim Schembri)

Probably the writer on I Hate Films was one of those. As foreseeable he hated the film. Long Ago Captures posts some screencaps. flaffy (in Russian) posts about the movie and lord of the pirates uploads a nice drawing inspired by the film.

The Statesville Record & Landmark talks about Sharyn McCrumb's The Ballad of Tom Dooley:

Joan Higgins, associate director of publicity for Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, says that what first seemed to be a sordid tale of adultery and betrayal was transformed by the new discoveries into a sort of Appalachian “Wuthering Heights.” (Joel Reese)

The Herald is the latest one to review Lone Scherfig's One Day linking it with the Brontës:

Rick and Ilsa, Heathcliff and Cathy, Homer and Marge – to the list of fiction’s towering romantics must be added the names of Em and Dex, Emma and Dexter, the two hearts at the centre of David Nicholls’s toasty novel, now turned into a stylish but tepid film by the Danish director, Lone Scherfig.  (Alison Rowat)

KSL Newsradio invites to read the classics:

2. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Deep sigh. Few love stories are as affecting or as tragically romantic as "Jane Eyre." First published in 1847, Brontë's quiet but stalwart heroine broke the mold of standard class conceptions and is one of the most endearing female characters of all time. (Teri Harman)

The Huffington Post selects it in its list of best classic books about outsiders:

The story of two outsiders, Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is a classic outsider masterpiece. From the very beginning of the novel, Jane fails to fit in with the society around her until she meets Edward Rochester, with whom she falls in love.

Ellinky compiles some covers of Jane Eyre comic adaptations which feature a blonde Jane; Jenny Coe's Flickr photostream has some recent pictures of Brontë country; howsimplylovely imagines a portrait of Anne Brontë, Tobi the ragdoll of Heathcliff and Noreeen one of Charlotte Brontë's Shirley.

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