Scorsese dressed as a Brontë hero (or maybe not)

L.M.C. is the owner and webmaster of Abigail's Ateliers. A website of reference for people interested in historical costumes and, particularly the costumes used by the Brontës. And now Ms Cutliffe is also big national news in The Telegraph:
EDIT: Read L.M.C.'s take on this story. 

L.M.C., 49, loves 19th century author Charlotte Brontë so much she dresses as the famous author all the time - even while doing her supermarket shopping. (...)
L.M. started dressing as the famous author - who penned classic novel Jane Eyre, which was recently turned into a Hollywood blockbuster - three years ago.
She said: "I love the works of all the Brontë sisters, and really wanted to encourage other people to find out more about them.
"I started dressing as Charlotte around Haworth, to point tourists in the right direction to the Bronte house.
"Now I love my costumes so much it's hard to take them off!"
L.M. has forked out a whopping £4,000 fashioning more than 50 incredible period costumes.
She added: "I dress as Charlotte because the other Brontës were quite young when they died and I'm 49.
"But I feel I'm more like Emily because she loved the Yorkshire moors and animals.
"I love taking our dogs for long walks on the moors and it always reminds me of Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff.
"I tend to do my shopping in costume, and people love seeing me around.
"I went into Sainsbury's in jeans once, and the checkout girl told me to go home and come back as Charlotte.  (...)
"I still pick Becky up but she doesn't seem to notice, never mind care, that I'm dressed as Charlotte Brontë. I think she thinks it's funny!"
"My husband has also been very supportive of me - I couldn't do any of it without him; he is my Mr Rochester." 

The Daily Mail (and The Daily Express) is also carrying the story with some more pictures (the McDonald's one included) and a few more comments:

She said: 'My family have been really supportive and John even takes pictures for my Bronte website of me in costume in the hills of Brontë Country. (Lauren Paxman)

L.M.C. herself posts about the articles and the (most of them) stupid comments that have been published all around.

The Yorkshire Post interviews Mark Atkinson, owner of Atkinson Action Horses. His work in Wuthering Heights 2011 is mentioned (picture source):

It is a good job that Dylan, a stunt horse, is an unflappable character.
Carrying a cameraman across the moors, who sat facing the horse’s tail so that he could film as they went along, was all in a day’s work for this horse.
On this occasion the work in question was for the film Wuthering Heights. (...)
The Atkinsons were asked to supply a total of nine horses for the film Wuthering Heights, much of which was filmed near Hawes.
“The horses were based at Ferdy Murphy’s racing yard at West Witton and the facilities were brilliant,” said Mark. “Andrea Arnold, the director, was so supportive and it was a really good experience.”
They spent three months working on the film. At one point, the conditions underfoot were so muddy and uneven that they decided the only way to film Cathy and Heathcliff riding across the moors would be to put the cameraman, who had never ridden, on horseback.

The Race (a The Hollywood Reporter's blog) updates its predictions about the upcoming Oscars.  Mia Wasikowska and Dario Marianelli (Best Original Score) are not in the top five possible nominees, but there are listed as major threats. Michael O'Connor seems a sure bet in the Best Costume Design category.

Time Out London interviews Martin Scorsese about his new film Hugo and the reporter asks him about British cinema:

I like Lynne Ramsay [the director of ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’] too, and Andrea Arnold.’ When I mention that Arnold has just released a low-budget, defiantly auteurist version of ‘Wuthering Heights’, his ears prick up. ‘Oh, really?’
This might be a phone conversation, but I’m sure he was reaching for pen and paper. It’s an arresting image: Martin Scorsese, packing to travel to London, readying himself to premiere ‘Hugo’ in London and Paris, but scribbling down on a scrap of paper that he must remember to catch up with a radical new British version of ‘Wuthering Heights’ when – if – he ever manages to find a spare hour or two. (Dave Calhoun)

A Yorkshire Post reader defends Andrea Arnold's film after reading the (very) bad review of the newspaper:

Don't  be put off. Tony Earnshaw’s total drubbing of Andrea Arnold’s rendition of Wuthering Heights is too tough (Yorkshire Post, November 7).
See it for yourself. Visually it is incredibly beautiful, you are part of it, in the atmospheric shifting moorland mist, the strange light of which makes the colour sing. You can smell the sodden moss and peat. The brilliance of the close-ups of flora and fauna and the vast panorama of Swaledale. (...)
Did it capture the essence of that towering novel, which soars because of its narrative rather than its dialogue? You decide – take an open mind and go and see it.( From: Hilary Bunt, Monklow Moor, Harrogate.)

The Mirfield Reporter reports that the fight to save Shirley Country is still going on:

Kirklees Council would be wrong to put forward a site of enormous historical significance for an industrial development that would dwarf the White Rose Centre.
That was the message from people protesting against plans for a 42-hectare business development at Cooper Bridge.
They had their say at the start of a meeting on Wednesday – but councillors agreed to set aside the land on the Mirfield border for development.
The site is currently popular with walkers and is cherished by many for its historical ties to the Luddites and the Brontë family.
Campaigners held placards outside Huddersfield Town Hall before the meeting, calling on councillors to ‘Keep Roberttown and Hartshead rural’.

Unreality TV talks about the latest installment of UK's X-Factor:

Dressed in a white flowing dressed and backed by a stage backed by giant bay window she [Amelia Lily]  looked like she was about to launch into a Kate Bush number luckily Wuthering Heights wasn’t on the agenda  (Lisa McGarry)

Simon Heffer begins an article in Standpoint like this:

When I was a child in the 1960s the favoured period for nostalgia was the Victorian age, in all its manifestations. A Dickens or a Brontë serialisation seemed to be on television every Sunday.

The Free-Lance Star publishes a curious (and regrettably more usual than it seems) story:

George Newman recently came across this sentence as he copy edited a book review:
"Madeleine ultimately decides that she's going to go to graduate school and study the great Victorian novels of Austen and Eyre, because, unlike real life, they almost always have a marriage plot and a happy ending."
Before I tell you what changes George made to that sentence, let me say that I put the unedited sentence up on my blog on fredericksburg.com and asked readers to take a crack at it.
Several suggested rewording "going to go to graduate school and study" or removing commas.
Maybe the sentence could have been worded better, but the real problems were the two easily checkable errors of fact.
George checked them--because it occurred to George that he should check them.
First, who is this supposed author named "Eyre"? There is a famous character named Jane Eyre, in a book by Charlotte Brontë.
Second, Jane Austen was a Victorian? No, she was not. She wrote in the Regency era, predating Queen Victoria's rule.
George changed the sentence to save us from a spate of angry letters from the literarily inclined.
As published, it read: "Madeleine ultimately decides that she's going to go to graduate school and study the great novels of Austen and Brontë, because, unlike real life, they almost always have a marriage plot and a happy ending." (Laura Moyer)

Clash Music chooses a Sonic Youth playlist:

I Love You Golden Blue - Sonic Nurse
In my opinion Sonic Nurse is the ultimate hit record of Sonic Youth. Every track is so nicely composed, and the production is more crisp and in-your-face than a lot of the other records. This song is just darn graceful, and Kim Gordon sings like some sort of fallen angel from the hinterlands. The lyrics seem to capture a universal feeling of loss, and for me Kim Gordon enacts the gothic world of Emily Brontë with this song.

The Arts Desk reviews the performances of Matilda, The Musical at the Cambridge Theatre:

Precocious beyond her years, she’s read Brontë, Jane Austen, Lord of the Rings and many more classics by the time she arrives in the class of the sympathetic Miss Honey at Crunchem. (Carole Woddis)

The amateur DJ Anna Conray talks about her failsafe floor-fillers in NME:

'Wuthering Heights’ by Kate Bush (I realised that this was failsafe when a man decided to physically take hold of my hand and propose afterwards).

The Yorker, Casteluzzo, SİNEMASKOP (in Turkish) and La Sala de Cine and Monky (both in Spanish) talk about Jane Eyre 2011;  Languid Prattle reviews We Are Three Sisters; Tanta Coisa! (in Portuguese) is beginning a Brontë challenge; Owl Tell You About It loved re-reading Jane Eyre; The Art of Leo and Diane Dillon posts a 1969 cover of Jane Eyre; David Nguyen and captainBLIGH review Wuthering Heights 2011 and A Girl Walks into a Bookstore... posts about the original novel.