The
Minneapolis Star-Tribune asks readers about favourite holiday reads:
As a child, I received a really nice hardcover copy of "Jane Eyre"
from an aunt. I wasn't ready for it yet, but I kept it. Years later, I
got a job at a factory. I brought "Jane Eyre" with me to read on lunch
breaks. It was the most wonderful escape -- one of the best gifts ever!
(Jennifer Wills Geraedts, Park Rapids, Minn.)
The
New Statesman talks about how different performers can share the same role in a film:
Filmmakers drawn to the generation-spanning yarn often fail to
foresee or sidestep a structural booby-trap that comes with the
territory. A few weeks ago, in my review of Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights,
I referred to the problem as "transplant casting", so let's stick with
that phrase: the passing of one character between two or more different
performers, with all the hazards this entails.
In Arnold's case,
the shift from the earlier incarnations of Heathcliff and Cathy (played
by Solomon Glave and Shannon Beer) to their slightly older selves (James
Howson and Kaya Scodelario) caused a rupture from which the last third
of the movie struggled to recover. (Ryan Gilbey)
We don't know if quoting
Wuthering Heights (and particularly Andrea Arnold's
Wuthering Heights) is a good idea in an article about the c-sections on demand UK issue in the
Daily Mail:
In the stunning new film of Wuthering Heights, Cathy’s sister goes into labour on the beautiful crystalline moor. Then we see her grave being dug. Yes, it’s primal stuff. (Suzanne Moore)
The article talks about a different thing, but this reference on
edhat Santa Barbara makes us wish such a gift was real:
We've outgrown needing a spot for
Santa to leave the 12,347-piece Wuthering Heights-themed Lego set our boy
once coveted. Even better, there'll be no rearranging of furniture[.] (Billy Goodnick)
The Sunday Times talks about the street artist Swoon. You know pseudonyms...
Swoon, real name Caledonia Curry, works on a piece in her Brooklyn studio...lone female wolf in such a male world? At the beginning of her career, rather like female novelists such as George Eliot or Charlotte Brontë who wrote under male pseudonyms, Swoon did not let on she was a woman, despite her bodice-ripping name. (Eleanor Mills)
An alert for tomorrow, November 28 in Jacksonville, Florida:
Jacksonville Main Public Library, 12:00 PM
Masterpiece Theatre Book Club focuses on Masterpiece Theatre classics.
Participants are invited to watch the film, read the accompanying book
and meet with the club to discuss both. Today we will discuss "Jane
Eyre".
Charlotte Reads Classics posts about
Agnes Grey;
My Journal of Becoming a Writer reviews
Wuthering Heights and
Kitcher's Café does the same with
Jane Eyre;
livin cool and
Elaine Macintyre reviews
Wuthering Heights 2011;
books & other stuff too liked
Jane Eyre 2011.
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