Wuthering windfarm

Picture source

The press continues discussing yesterday's decision to go on with the windfarm plans. See this Daily Mail cartoon or their imagined future of the moors.

The Thornton Moor Windfarm Action Group has a website with updates on their activities and plans and they have also launched an online petition for people to show their support against the windfarm.

Wuthering Heights 2011, mainly filmed on the moors, is to be screened at a couple of forthcoming film festivals. The San Francisco Examiner lists it as part of the 55th S.F. International Film Festival (April 19 - May 3):

Wuthering Heights. Hollywood seemingly forever put its stamp on Emily Brontë’s 1847 book “Wuthering Heights” with William Wyler’s 1939 film; it’s difficult to think of Catherine and Heathcliff without visualizing Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. Yet viewers happily get a different picture in this new version, with the relatively little-known Kaya Scodelario and newcomer James Howson in the lead roles.
Oscar-winning actor-director-writer Andrea Arnold has come up with a new, gritty, less romantic, more dramatic version. The script introduces Heathcliff as a “dark-skinned gypsy.” Howson, 24, a convicted drug dealer who rose to festival fame with this film debut, is currently being prosecuted for “racial abuse” of his Asian girlfriend, and also recommitted to psychiatric care. [6:45 p.m. May 2 and 3 p.m. May 3 at San Francisco Film Society Cinema] (Janos Gereben)

And The Dispatch lists it as part of the RiverRun International Film Festival (April 13-22) in Winston-Salem.

"Wuthering Heights" (Dir. Andrea Arnold, UK)
From Andrea Arnold, director of the acclaimed "Fish Tank," comes this evocative, visually arresting adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel about the aristocratic Catherine and her adopted brother, Heathcliff, and their ultimately doomed and unrequited love. Recasts Heathcliff as a black man (he's described as a gypsy in the novel), adding an undercurrent of racial tension more accessible to modern audiences and stripping down the novel to its haunting, painful essence. (3 stars) (Matthew Lucas)

The Star-Ledger features Jess Peslak of Livingston who is The Star-Ledger's Top Performer of the Week in softball and whose favourite novel is Wuthering Heights.

Express reports author E L James's reaction to the comparison of her novel Fifty Shades of Grey to Brontë works:

She had never written anything before and concedes that she was heavily inspired by the Twilight series. She laughs off fanciful comparisons between her work and Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, which also feature a brooding man dominating a mousy woman. (Anna Pukas)

Sandy Blair, a retired nurse turned writer seems to be quite a Brontëite, according to Seacoast Online:

"I chose (the genre) because I fell in love with romance when I read 'Jane Eyre' when I was 12 years old and I've been in love with it ever since. I like a happy ending." (Jeanné McCartin)

But not so Alison Flood from the Guardian:

Dreadful teaching can taint a book for ever, no doubt (Jane Eyre for me), just as great teaching can inspire lasting love (Lord of the Flies). 

The Brontë Sisters quotes from a letter by Charlotte written on this day in 1852 while The Northville Review  shares the Brontës' 21st century letters, which are well worth a read. Alice's Wonderland posts about Wuthering Heights. Kiss the Book writes about Little Miss Brontë: Jane Eyre.