Coming this week

I got N.A. on tape a few months ago, Katy. I think I have already offered it to Donna on another thread, but if not, maybe you'd like it........

Caroline, Mich offered me Persuasion, I must have missed you offer somewhere in "Threadville". Help?

Mich, has it under control Caroline, Thanks anyway.

Katy, look into my eyes......... Nostromo, tonight, 9p.m. EST........Nostromo, tonight, 9p.m. EST.........Nostromo, tonight.....

Thanks caroline!!

***Sigh****

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Practice your HTML HERE at AUSTENTEST. Johanne

On U.S. tv this week: Sense and Sensibility (1995) HBO, Sat. Jan.18, 6:30 pm. The Advocate with Colin Firth Cinemax, Wed. Jan. 15, 11 pm. The Princess Caraboo--a charming story set in Regency England. Anna Chancellor has a small part, and for once she isn't humiliated by the hero! Not Austen-related, but definitely worthwhile: Barcelona The Movie Channel, Sun. Jan. 12 at 3:20 pm and Mon. Jan. 13 at 11:35 am Breaking Away Disney Channel, Sun. Jan. 12 at 10 pm. A Little Princess (1995) Cinemax, Friday Jan. 17 at 1 pm. This is a beautiful movie. It deserves all those adjectives usually thrown around indescriminately--"magical," "luminous," "enchanting." Even if you don't think you'd like it, give it a chance. I wish I had Cinemax so I could tape it. Jane Eyre The Welles version. Bravo, Fri. Jan. 17 at 3:10 pm and Sat., Jan. 18 at 11 am. Bravo is also showing Wuthering Heights and Nicholas Nickleby in hour-long episodes this week, but I don't know which versions they are and the times they're being shown.

All times given in my last post are EST.

VertView Notice Don't forget that the discussion for the Persuasion VirtView is scheduled to begin Sunday, Jan. 19...so watch the film sometime this week so you may join in the melee next Sunday! :-)

Masterpiece theatre this week is about the disasterous marriage of King George IV--he's the man who put the regent in Regency. Definitely our time period (G-IV wanted JA to dedicate one of her novels to him!) Should be interesting to see a rendition of how the highest class was behaving while JA was writing.

Ann, they were behaving badly, very badly! By all accounts, it could be a prequal to the Charles/Diana mess!!;-)

Wasn't it the prince who demanded it would be "okay" for JA to dedicate?

Amy: Wasn't it the prince who demanded it would be "okay" for JA to dedicate? Yes it was! Insufferable man! ;-)

I put this URL in the other thread also, but Jane Austen comments on this affair are at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/jprncwal.html

I'd like to inform everyone from Canada that Backbeat, starring Jennifer Ehle, will be aired in City Tv (channel 7) at 9:00 pm on Wednesday January 15. It's the story about the Beatles before they became famous. I think that she appears with her original hair colour in this movie and that it'd be a treat to see her acting capabilities before she played Lizzy in P&P. Paola

Thanks, Paola. That one's worth watching more than once.

Last night on Cinemax they played "The Advocate", starring Colin Firth. I tuned in and saw more of Colin than I ever thought I would! It is a 1995 movie...check your listings if you get Cinemax, they may show it again. It is an R rated movie so be careful who is in the room......remember the bath scene in P&P...this gives more coverage (or uncoverage, actually) of that scene... Linda in Georgia

VirtView Notice: BBC Persuasion For those who have the old BBC videos or would care to rent them, the discussion of the old BBC version of Persuasion will begin next Sunday, Jan. 26, so be sure to watch the video this week sometime. Should make for some interesting discussions and comparisons with the Amanda Root version we just watched.

Cheryl: I am relatively new to this site. Is the discussion going to be in the Pemberley Drawing room, or on a new topic here? Also, what time (U.S.)?

Here Sharon. Though we have thought about doing it live too. Wht do you think? (LOL re Barbie's camper)

Some interesting talk show guests coming this week/next week: Late Show With David Letterman, CBS (US) Tu 1/28 Helena Bonham Carter Late Late Show With Tom Snyder, CBS (US) Fr 1/31 Helena Bonham-Carter Charlie Rose, PBS (US) Tu 1/21 Juliet Binoche We 1/22 Liam Neeson Will some of these shows wake up, and please please book Colin Firth ? Zimei

Has Colin Firth ever done a live interview?

Sharon, glad to have you with us! When we have a VirtView we will usually discuss it here at Spring, although if people are excited about it, it tends to spill over into Pemberley! This week we are discussing the Amanda Root Persuasion over at the Persuasion Topic. We've had similar movie discussions on The English Patient and Nostromo if you care read and add your two cents worth to those! ;-) About the upcoming BBC Persuasion, several of us discovered we had these old videos and wanted to discuss them. I would not recommend going out and buying them to participate, since they are of poor quality compared to the more recent versions, and we only want to discuss them because some of us are hard-core Austen junkies who will watch even bad Austen and be happy. ;-) These are available though, at many of the larger video rental chains, if you care to rent them and help us to gleefully trash them! I'll probably start a new topic for the BBC Persuasion discussion on Saturday night, Jan. 25 in preparation for the discussion the following day. There is no set time, just jump on in...the Persuasion discussion started last Sunday and is still going on, so it is very flexible. If you have any more questions, please feel free to e-mail me. Glad you're here! :-)

Re : 130:25 Never seen him do an interview on a US talkshow but been wandering what if we would altogether ask Ms O'Donnel to see him on his next visit to LA. Just a thought.... Charlie Rose would certainly do something very different with him as well, when he's in NY perhaps? Worth pestering them?

Maybe not the perfect thread for it, but I want to wish our Aussies a very happy Australia Day this Sunday, January 26. My Jane Austen Diary 1997 doesn't say what it's about, but I assume something about throwing off colonial shackles---so CHEERS! from another former colony.

VertView Notice Watch the Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility this week for discussion to begin Sunday, February 2. As Amy put it so well, "Go ahead, watch it again, what will it hurt?"

Can I please start early? I watched S&S twice this last week on HBO and love it exceedingly well. My favorite scenes are (1) the one where Marianne is so ill and Colonel Brandon is beside him; his anguished plea to Elinor to "Give me an occupation or I shall run mad" pierces my soul; (2) the scene where CB has brought Marianne's mother to her and she says thank you to him (what a look of love!); and (3) the scene where Elinor finally blows and tells Marianne that "had I not been bound by silence I could have produced evidence of a broken heart enough to satisfy even you", and (4) when Elinor finds that Edward is not married and cannot hold her feelings in any longer. All in all, an excellent production, particularly considering that this is the one JA book I simply couldn't get through.

"Is beside himself, obviously. Sorry! And I also meant to mention: does Alan Rickman have the greatest male voice since Jeremy Irons, or what? It's downright one more than threeplay.

Susan, Susan! Calm down girl! ;-) Watch it a couple more times and then let 'er rip on Sunday! *samooch*

Ah'll be ba-a-a-a-ck!

Rickman's voice is pretty exciting.

Rickmans can be exciting and also very endearing : Thinking of his look combining sadness and happiness when he watches his wife (Juliet Stevenson) leave the flat for a new found life, at the end of Truly Madly Deeply. (Sighhh)

Johanne, I just watch truly madly deeply this weekend. What a tear jerker, I cried & cried. It's such a great movie & Rickman is so good in it.

What a tear jerker, I cried & cried= Oh yes, very much so, even after repeat viewing you believe yourself almost immuned but it is without avail, fortunately ;)

Ladies; here is his fan page, with many fab photos; http://www.fred.net/karina/rickman/rickman.html

well, thank you...that was a nice visit! ;-)

VertView Notice: BBC Emma Discussion of the old BBC version of Emma will begin on Sunday, Feb.9, so watch the video sometime this week. The following week the new Emma will be shown on A&E, so this may make for a good preview.

From what I hear there's a huge Chocolate contest in Sydney, Australia ! Are they at all familiar with the Darcy dessert? I wonder if Anna or Hilary has sent them a sample.