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Heathcliff of the potting shed
2008-05-24 10:18:00 The Guardian publishes a top ten of the best smokes in literature. Number one is Mr. Rochester's in Jane Eyre:Jane Eyre, by Charlotte BrontëOnce upon a time, the smell of cigar smoke was thought to be delicious, arousing. In the proposal scene of Brontë's novel, Jane catches the whiff of Rochester's cigar - "I know it well" - in the garden at Thornfield. It mingles with "sweet-briar and southernwood, jasmine, pink, and rose". With the heroine giddy on these blended scents, only one outcome is possible.Zadie Smith writes also in The Guardian about George Eliot. Jane Eyre is mentioned when Middlemarch is discussed:The older reader is more likely to accept the justness of Virginia Woolf's famous judgement: "One of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Middlemarch is a book about the effects of experience that changes with experience. Jane Eyre is understood by the 14-year-old as effectively as the 40-year-old, possibly better. Surely few 14-year-olds can make real ...
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Heathcliff of hedgerows favourite to take over 'Gardeners' World
2008-05-24 01:02:00 ITNHeathcliff of hedgerows favourite to take over 'Gardeners' World'Independent, UK&-nbsp;- 42 minutes agoBy Jonathan Brown Few roles on British television cultivate quite the same level of devotion as that of lead presenter on the BBC's Gardeners' World. ...Monty Don, Gardeners' World presenter Times OnlineMonty Don quits 'Gardeners' World' Digital SpyGardeners' World host Monty Don suffers stroke Mirror.co.ukIndependentall 145 news articles
I'm your father, says Heathcliff
2008-05-20 20:16:00 Many newspapers today mourn the loss of the A&P heir, Huntington Hartford II. Among those who give the most information on what interests us is the Miami Herald:He also funded Broadway productions, including his own short-lived 1958 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre with Eric Portman as Rochester and Jan Brooks in the title role. (Adam Bernstein)Too bad it seems to have been a flop, but the intention was there.The Fiver in The Guardian makes a joke about being a 'literature bluff':It might not be obvious to you, but the Fiver's a bit of a Russian literature buff. Its favourite bit of War and Peace comes just after the bit where Anna Karenina's husband pushes that old woman in front of the train to get the Kazmarov sisters' money and the only way of saving Moscow from the armies of jumped up French pipsqueak Michel Platini is for Leo Tolstoy to write a rousing 553-page treatise on Russian peasant farming methods. It's even better than the bit in Wuthering Heights ...
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Heathcliff-esque crushes
2008-05-19 19:23:00 Variety reports a tiny tidbit on Ellen Page's Jane Eyre in an article discussing the state of BBC Films and their presence in Cannes. With Mel Gibson set to star in “Edge of Darkness” and Ellen Page attached to “Jane Eyre,” BBC Films has arrived at Cannes in much healthier shape than many feared this time last year, when news broke of a major restructuring at the movie arm of the U.K. pubcaster. ...“The powers that be see BBC Films as very distinct,” Langan insists, rejecting the suggestion that its editorial agenda has become “more televisual than filmic.” She cites the “Jane Eyre” project with Page and Ruby Films as evidence. The BBC made a fresh TV version of Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel last year, and Langan said, “If we were TV-minded, we wouldn’t be doing ‘Jane Eyre’ again so quickly.” (Adam Dawtrey)We don't really see where Langan is getting at, but - uh - okay.Something altogether different but currently in the news like mad are many B...
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Michael Fassbender confirmed as Heathcliff
2008-05-15 22:15:00 The Hollywood Reporter confirms what was already vox populi. Ecosse's Wuthering Films film project has secured Michael Fassbender as Heathcliff: CANNES -- At least one half of the casting crisis facing John Maybury's "Wuthering Heights" has been solved in the wake of Natalie Portman's sudden decision to pull out of the headline role of Cathy.Ecosse Films, the production house run by Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae, which is producing the picture, said they have secured Michael Fassbender for the role of Heathcliff.Fassbender stars in Steve McQueen's "Hunger," which heralded the beginning of Cannes sidebar Un Certain Regard on Thursday.Bernstein described the Heathcliff role as "one of the most powerful and iconic romantic roles" in cinema.Finance and sales company HanWay is repping the title for sales here.Portman's exit left the financiers, sellers and producers rattled just days ahead of the fest.HanWay Films is hoping to have a replacement for Portman "within days" in ...
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Heathcliff-esque moodiness
2008-05-12 14:14:00 The Independent reviews the London Children's Ballet production of Jane Eyre, whic will open on Thursday, May 15.The London Children's Ballet is set to bring Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece, Jane Eyre, to London's West End. This adaptation, performed by 54 rising stars between the ages of nine and 15, follows the young orphan Jane's bittersweet journey from her bleak time at the charity school, Lowood, through to her tender relationship with Mr Rochester.The new choreography, by Nicole Tongue, is set to a score composed by Julia Gomelskaya for the company's original production in 1997. It looks to be the latest success from the company, renowned for past performances such as The Scarlet Pimpernel.A ballerina trained at London's Royal Ballet School, Tongue was commissioned to re-choreograph the work to suit a contemporary audience. "Jane Eyre is the story of one person's journey of self-discovery: as a young girl she learns to temper her anger and sense of injustice; as a wom...
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The morals of Heathcliff and Rochester
2008-04-16 14:38:00 The Muskogee Phoenix reviews The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer (check these previous posts) and concludes that it has some things in common with the Brontës' works:Actually, what Meyer has written is akin to Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” or “Wuthering Heights” with a sexy, vampire Heathcliff, or Edward that is, who has morals. Ostensibly about vampires, the real underlying themes seem to be teen abstinence, overcoming prejudice, developing integrity, and, of course, true love. (Melony Carey)The writer has a point - Rochester's behaviour is more conventional and "moral" than Heathcliff's - but still we are surprised to see Rochester's morals mentioned again.And now for some interesting things from a few blogs. One Day More writes a post on social commentaries in Jane Eyre. And Sneak Preview comes across a Jane Eyre reference in Dr. Paffenroth’s Orpheus and the Pearl:Catherine was exhausted, but too restless to sleep, so she drew all the curtains and settled herse...
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An evening with Balthus, Cathy and Heathcliff
2008-04-15 00:02:00 Several Brontë alerts for today, April 15:1. In London, as we reported before, at the Victoria and Albert Museum the exhibition Blood on Paper: The art of the book (15 April-29 June) opens:At a time when the notion of the book is challenged by the advent of the screen and computer, this exhibition aims to show the extraordinary ways in which the book has been treated by leading artists of today and the recent past. Blood on Paper will focus on new and contemporary work, and on books where the artist has been the driving force in conception and design. The past twenty years have seen outstanding work by some of the most influential and respected artists of our time. (...)Seen together, these artists’ books show a truly astonishing inventiveness, many on display to the public for the first time. Artists represented range from Matisse, Picasso and Braque to Anselm Kiefer, Anish Kapoor and Georg Baselitz. Almost all notable artists of the 20th and 21st centuries have ...
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Bela Lugosi as Heathcliff
2008-04-07 16:35:00 Let's begin this post talking about two new books. First, the Burlington Free Press has brought to our attention Women's Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Writing. And you guessed corrently, the Brontës are definitely in it: The volume includes well-known authors such as the Bronte sisters and novelist Virginia Woolf, poet Elizabeth Bishop and short-story writer Alice Munro. It contains work by writers many people have never heard of, but probably should have. (Sally Pollak)According to the table of contents this is the Brontë material to be found therein: Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855; England)[We wove a web in childhood]Library of Women’s Literature: Jane EyreEmily Brontë (1818–1848; England)A.G.A: To the BluebellSong [O between distress and pleasure]Love and Friendship[Shall Earth no more inspire thee]A.G. to G.S.To Imagination[No coward soul is mine]Anne Brontë (1820–1849; England)The Narrow WayAs well as bit on Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.Soft Skull ...
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Heathcliff 80?s Cartoon Intro
2008-03-20 19:01:00 Here’s a little something to spark your Hippocampus. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Heathcliff 80’s Cartoon Intro", url: "http://videospills.com/heathcl-iff-80s-cartoon-intro" });
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Dark, brooding Heathcliff
2008-03-16 13:00:00 Richard Wilcocks posting on the Headingley Literary Festival Blog covers in detail yesterday's talk by Robert Barnard, co-author of A Brontë Encyclopedia, that we announced here:Robert Barnard gave a talk entitled People the Brontës Knew this afternoon, to a large and appreciative audience sitting at tables in the New Headingley Club, fortified with home-made cake and Yorkshire tea. It was connected to A Brontë Encyclopedia: the indefinite article signifying academic modesty is officially favoured, but this major (definitive?)work (published a few months ago) should soon be up there with the likes of Juliet Barker's The Brontës. Up there with Clement Shorter too. (Read the complete post)The Independent publishes an article about male/female attractiveness stereotypes and its scientific(?) base. Heathcliff makes an appearance:The researchers, whose study shows that across different races, lighter-skinned women are seen as the ideal, say the attraction is driven by prefer...
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Dorothy & William Wordsworth vs Catherine & Heathcliff
2008-03-02 12:40:00 A couple of reviews of The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson mention a similarity with Wuthering Heights in the relationship between Dorothy and William Wordsworth:One of the most intriguing of Frances Wilson's insights concerns the way in which Dorothy and William's relationship can be better understood through considering the portrayal of Emily Brontë's Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, who are so much a part of one another that they cannot be separated. The other Brontë parallel is with Charlotte's violently insane Bertha Rochester. (Virginia Rounding in The Guardian) Such was their closeness that Wilson suggests Dorothy and William may have been the inspiration for Emily Brontë’s Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. Although this may seem a little farfetched – particularly the Heathcliff element – Dorothy in her youth certainly embodied all the wildness of the heroine of Wuthering Heights. As described by de Quincey, she was a pagan goddess with “a gi...
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Heathcliff Andrew Ledger, 1979-2008
2008-01-23 15:08:00 I was shocked to hear of Heath Ledger's death on yesterday. I didn't really follow, follow his career, but I've seen a few of his films (I remember him in "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson), and it's just a tragic loss at such a young age. Especially with a young daughter. My prayers go out to his family...
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Cathy and Heathcliff meets Schrödinger
2008-01-23 00:04:00 Some days ago, we posted about Carl Gopalkrishnan's paintings and their relation to Wuthering Heights. The artist has contacted us and provided us with another painting inspired by Emily Brontë's masterpiece and the wonders of quantum mechanics. In his own words:It is another of my paintings of Cathy and Heathcliff, but perhaps more related to the quantum. It has the lyrics from Kate Bush's song, and in the background is the subtle pattern caused by particles/waves in the two-slit experiment exposing duality of particles and waves, and which is associated with the idea of "entanglement". Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Wuthering Heights
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Heathcliff
2007-12-11 17:48:00 Blog of the Day Awards for Tuesday December 11, 2007.A Blog of the Day Award goes to HeathcliffPaul Arrand Rodgers Explains Today's Heathcliff Because Marmaduke was taken.Technorati TagsBlog Award Blog Awards winner Bloggers Blogs Awards Blogging Bloggies Weblogs Weblog Award of the day Award web online nominations Internet Blog of the Day Awards Blog of the Day Award Blog of the Day BOTDA winners Weblog Award Weblog Awards blogspot Be sure to submit your nominations early.Thank you
Heathcliff's People
2007-11-03 13:16:00 The new 'official' sequel of Gone With the Wind, Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig is analyzed in The Times and its perspective is compared with other 'romance' novels:That trust has now given its blessing to Rhett Butler's People by Daniel McCaig, a respected historical novelist with a white moustache that sits on his lip like the rim of sugar on a mint julep, giving him a resemblance to Colonel Sanders. “Readers will get inside Rhett's head as he meets and courts Scarlett O'Hara in one of the most famous love affairs of all time,” promises a New York Times review quoted on the jacket.Clearly, the trustees are not great students of the love story. The last place readers want to be is inside a romantic hero's head, of course. Imagine Heathcliff's take on Wuthering Heights. Imagine Mr Darcy's perspective on Elizabeth Bennet. Imagine Maxim de Winter's account of his second marriage. At one point in this book, Rhett Butler wonders if he and Scarlett were lovers in ...
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Heathcliff by any other name
2007-10-22 13:38:00 The New Yorker has an article on artist Elaine Reichek, who is thus introduced: Reichek is a grandmother who does embroidery, but, whatever associations that image has for you, forget them. A conceptual artist with a degree from Yale and a punkish shock of platinum hair, she is a leading figure in the field of mixed-media art. (Judith Thurman)An exhibition of some of her works is now on at the Klagsbrun gallery (click here to see some images). But what is relevant to us is the description of one of her works: Reichek’s samplers include embroidered reproductions of a Web page, Seurat’s portrait of his mother sewing, an Attic frieze, quotations in needlework from Freud and Colette, Charlotte Brontë’s favorite collar patterns with a paragraph from “Shirley,” and an extract from Darwin’s journals. (Judith Thurman)It does sound interesting.EDIT: More information can be found in this article in Art in America:In the five-part work Sampler (The Brontes), 1997, Reichek quotes f...
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You are soooo Heathcliff
2007-10-06 18:15:00 Several local newspapers talks about Cornelia Parker's Never Endings exhibition in Birmingham (see more details in this previous post). Some pieces of the Brontëan Abstracts are displayed:A series of attractively abstract photographs turn out to be no more than magnified smudges from Einstein’s blackboard or the marks in the margin of Charlotte Bronte’s manuscript for Jane Eyre. (Peter McCarthy)On Margaret Cooter's blog you can find a comment and a photographic tour (no Brontëan Abstracts however) of the exhibition.The Columbus-Dispatch reviews the film The Jane Austen Book Club and somehow reminds us of those reviews of Pride and Prejudice 2005 that considered the atmosphere of the film more Brontë-like than Austen-like:As a director, Swicord doesn't have the control she has as a screenwriter. Blunt, in particular, is allowed to darken the mood unnecessarily: She overpowers what ought to be a lightly comic role, as if she had just swept in from Bronte's moors rather than...
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Bertha meets Heathcliff
2007-09-24 12:40:00 Eloise Millar writes a very interesting post about Jean Rhys in the Book Blog of The Guardian:Rhys is a bit of a strange creature. Her last novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, is her best-known. A prequel to Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea recounts the story of the marriage and honeymoon of Rochester and his first wife, Bertha. Told in odd, dreamlike prose, the narrative drifts through shabby mansions and overgrown gardens, where ferns grow as big as trees and over-scented flowers bloom (like truth) just out of reach, and where, inevitably, a few weeks of bliss tumble into tragedy and madness. Published in 1966 (after a 27-year silence), Rhys saw Wide Sargasso Sea as her rescue job on the madwoman in the attic and a deconstruction of the race and gender relations in Jane Eyre that nobody else seemed to question. By 1966 she was also something of a madwoman in the attic herself, and it could be said that Wide Sargasso Sea rescued not one but two people. Living a long way from her Dominican birt...
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Heathcliff at Stony Brook
2007-07-23 00:06:00 An alert for today, July 23, what we presented some days ago:Stony Brook Southampton Writers ConferenceStony Brook's Southampton campus, 239 Montauk Hwy.Monday, July 238:00 - 10:00P Special Theater Event: Staging of Marsha Norman & Lucy Simon's new musical Heathcliff.The project was previously known as "The Legend of Wuthering Heights" and there exists a 2002 demo CD with some songs (Juliet Lambert sings 'I am Heathcliff')Categories: Alert, Music, Theatre, Wuthering Heights
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Heathcliff by Norman & Simon
2007-07-15 13:23:00 There is a lot of activity around Wuthering Heights going on these days. Some weeks ago we posted a little summary with different TV/film projects, but there are also several theatrical projects. Quoting from memory:1. The Cananadian playwright Vern Thiessen prepares a stage adaptation.2. Fabio Zuffanti is also preparing a new musical setting of the novel in Italian.3. Hernán Espinosa's opera rock version was scheduled to open this month in Córdoba, Argentina (more information about the current status of the production after the fire that destroyed the theatre, here)And now we read in Newsday how a new musical project based on Wuthering Heights is being prepared. The 2007 Southampton Writers Conference, held at Stony Brook's Southampton campus, 239 Montauk Hwy., is opening its doors to the public for a couple of exclusive events. On Monday, July 23, at 8 p.m., Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon, co-authors of "The Secret Garden," will stage a reading of their new musical, "Heathclif...
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Heathcliff
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Gaultier's Heathcliff
2007-07-07 00:40:00 Jean-Paul Gaultier has recently launched a collection of bijoux - that is, jewellery - named Heathcliff, so we gather these were inspired by our, or rather Emily Brontë's, Heathcliff.Fashion and the Brontës still go together. We can only guess Emily would frown upon this collection, though. Categories: Weirdo, Wuthering Heights
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Heathcliffian news
2007-07-05 15:32:00 The Stamford Advocate devotes a much-deserved article to William Wyler. One of those film directors that were well-considered some decades ago and now are almost ignored. Wuthering Heights 1939 is discussed like this:I cannot overlook one of the director's finest works, 1939's "Wuthering Heights," just because (incomprehensibly) it is unavailable on DVD (beware the Korean imports!). Wyler's adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel remains one our great tear-jerkers, and made a star (in America) out of Laurence Olivier, whose then wife, Vivien Leigh, was simultaneously shooting a little feature called "Gone With The Wind." Niven, who had third billing behind Olivier and the stunning Merle Oberon (as Cathy), relates in his memoir, "The Moon's a Balloon," why the director was known as "Once More Wyler": He would habitually insist on endless re-takes, often while reading a newspaper, which drove actors mad. On "Heights," Olivier finally complained he'd tried a certain scene 100 differen...
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A laid-back Heathcliff, Bertha Rochester and The Sopranos
2007-06-13 13:55:00 More reviews for the York Theatre Royal's production of Wuthering Heights. The Times gives three stars out of five:Jane Thornton’s deft, economical adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel remains a period piece. And yet a case could almost be made for Sue Dunderdale’s pacey production of it to be seen and studied by anyone interested in the psychology of contemporary adolescents. After all, aren’t young people today just as temperamental, conflicted in their emotions and wilful in their decisions as those depicted by Brontë in the mid-19th century? (...)(...)Dunderdale puts a talented young cast of five through some vigorous paces. The actors play their parts and further the plot as narrators, slipping between multiple duties with relative simplicity and assurance. Lorna Ritchie’s attractive split-level set allows them plenty of room to manoeuvre. With its hard, horizontal lines offset by a double staircase, it functions almost like a playground upon which they enact...
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Heathcliff and Cathy in York
2007-06-03 16:50:00 The livejournal community Marshall Lancaster treats us to a lengthy review of the current stage production of Wuthering Heights in York, which runs until June 23.The story it’s self [sic] is clever adaptation of the novel. The character of Mr. Lockwood (the narrator) has been completely removed and instead the actors would often pause, while one of them would act as a narrator to move the story on. This worked very well as it meant that things could be explained in a few words rather than having to waste time acting them out. Also, it helped to move the chronology on, as there were times when a few years would past, before the actors would take on their characters again to pick the story up.The play included some music, of which the lyrics which I was pleased to discover were from Emily Bronte’s poems. The programme describes their use best by saying it gives Emily Bronte "a voice on stage". And yes, we do get to hear Marshall sing at various points in the play. He has a fair si...
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Jane should borrow Heathcliff's iPod
2007-05-15 15:30:00 Oh well, we know it's not Daphne du Maurier's centenary every year so excuse us if BrontëBlog is a little crowded with news concerning the author of Rebecca this week but, after all, she was a Brontëite and at least two of her works are related to the Brontës.As you know, this week the du Maurier Festival is taking place. Justine Picardie - author of My Mother's Wedding Dress, and currently working on her new novel Daphne - gave a talk there last Sunday.Justine Picardie will be talking about the life of Daphne du Maurier, and discussing her latest novel, "Daphne", due to be published by Bloomsbury next year. The book, which is based on Justine’s extensive research into previously undiscovered letters and manuscripts, takes as its starting point Daphne du Maurier herself: beautiful, famous, yet despairing as her marriage is threatened, and haunted by Rebecca, the heroine of her most famous novel.Check out this old post where you can find out more about why Daphne is Brontë-r...
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Heathcliff's lost years and Rebecca's code
2007-05-14 17:29:00 The Brontë sisters themselves, as you know, answer your questions about writing. Ask the Brontë Sisters has a new, hilarious post. Don't miss it.If you'd rather go for the indirect kind of advice, we suggest you read their literary output. Such as the following people have done.ejmbachenheimer writes and in-depth review of Wuthering Heights.Another question I had upon finishing the book was: What happened during those three years that Heathcliff went away? It’s obviously not pivotal to the story, otherwise we would have found out in some way, but I still find it fascinating. I suppose that might be a question left to “Wuthering Heights” fan fiction, if such even exists…We suggest you read Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots to find out ;)My last question is this: I don’t know much about Bronte’s life. The only information provided at the beginning of the recording was that she was the middle of the three Bronte girls. Their mother died when they were young and th...
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Rochester, an unreliable cad or Heathcliff's insomnia
2007-05-06 11:24:00 Our Sunday news survey.Victoria Coren 'regrets' in The Observer a possible cure for insomnia:A cure for insomnia would be the death of culture. Can you imagine films, literature, music, in a world where everyone slept like a baby as soon as the sun went down? Where would that leave Romeo and Juliet, Heathcliff, Dr Frankenstein, Leonard Cohen, Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window, the Cincinnati Kid?Melissa McClements reviews for The Financial Times three books with a common trend:Three contemporary female writers have produced fiction that illuminates modern women’s life choices in an intriguing format: the parallel life story. Lionel Shriver’s new novel, The Post-Birthday World, and Dayo Forster’s debut, Reading the Ceiling, both examine different outcomes to a pivotal decision in a heroine’s life. In her short story collection, My Nine Lives, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s approach is auto-fictional: she has written other possible versions of her own life. And what's the best way to ...
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Jane and Heathcliff in concert
2007-05-06 00:09:00 Two recent musical Brontë-related events performed in Canada that we would like to report:1. Alessio Vlad's Jane Eyre 1996 soundtrack was performed on Toronto:The Istituto Italiano di Cultura presentsLA DOLCE VITA: MUSIC FROM THE ITALIAN CINEMA,M° Alessio Vlad conducts the Toronto Philharmonia in a program of major film scores.Thursday, April 26, 20078:00 pmGeorge Weston Recital Hall - Toronto Centre for the Arts located at 5040 Yonge StreetWith the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura the Toronto Philarmonia, directed by award-winning conductor/composer Alessio Vlad, presents a concert of major film scores from the Italian cinema.Among the film scores are those from two films dealing with Italian history – Tea with Mussolini, Zeffirelli’s semi-autobiographical film, with music by Maestro Vlad; and Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), Visconti’s 1963 telling the story of Garibaldi and the Unification of Italy, with the score by Nino Rota. This year marks the 200th anniversar...
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Who was Heathcliff?
2007-05-02 14:42:00 The Brussels Brontë Group has written the more on the events they organised for Charlotte Brontë's birthday weekend. This time, Maureen Peeck writes about the reading of Villette that took place at the end of Charlotte's birthday.After our meal on Saturday night it was time for some more Villette; during our walks Derek Blyth, our excellent guide, had arranged for Val to read appropriate passages highlighting once again how closely the setting of the novel reflected aspects of Charlotte Brontë’s stay in Brussels. This was an excellent idea and indeed turned out to enhance the theme chosen for the evening readings.This theme was the growth of the relationship between Lucy Snowe and Paul Emanuel. Selina Busch and Brian Speak were the readers and they rose to the occasion. I introduced the passages and linked them together. In such a long novel it is difficult to keep track of everything, so it’s interesting to follow one strand and see how it fits into the whole pattern.Now f...
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Heathcliff
2007-04-05 13:10:00 Heathcliff debuted on the 17th of September 1984 and ended on the 1st of May 1987 tackles the exploits of big orange striped cat named Heathcliff.At home he was annoyed of Grandpa's existence but friendly and admired Grandma and Iggy Nutmeg. He loves to play practical jokes on a lot of people and outwit the neighbors bulldog Spike or steal fish from the fish market or go out on a romantic evening with his girlfriend Sonja. They were joined by the Catillac Cats led by Riff Raff, a short cat with a tall sexy girlfriend named Cleo.Heathcliff DVD is a collection as shown above, all 100% in chronological order from the pilot to the finale. Heathcliff DVD collection also includes custom artwork and episode guides so you can find your favorite episode at anytime. |
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