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Moved from topic 144 _____ Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (21:42) | Claudia Bond (Pandora620) Invalid command: only There is a breath-taking picture of Jennifer Ehle in the article about the Oscar Wilde movie in February issue of Vanity Fair. She looks like Mrs. Darcy has become comfortable with wealth and fashion. Given her history with leading men I do believe she will find Stephen Fry very resistible. Mr. Firth you should have tried harder to secure this beauty! 13 new of 13 responses total. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 1 of 13: Linda Yelton (DaRcYfAn) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (16:46) * 2 lines Thanks for the alert... Linda In Georgia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 2 of 13: Linda Yelton (DaRcYfAn) * Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (20:29) * 1 lines Claudia, I went out and got my own copy...it is a very nice picture...sounds like a sad part to play however! Again, thanks for the alert! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 3 of 13: Claudia Bond (Pandora620) * Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (01:02) * 2 lines Linda, in the alledged Firth-Ehle affair, who was the dumpor and who was the dumpee? Don't you think the picture looks like Mrs. Darcy would later in the marriage? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 4 of 13: Inko (Inko) * Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (15:28) * 1 lines This may not be the right thread for this, but in the February "Tatler" (a U.K. magazine that I saw at Crown books) there's an article/interview with Emilia Fox (Georgiana) and her role in Rebecca. Also some very glamorous photos of her in designer clothes. She's got her degree in English from Oxford and is now acting full time. Seems like a very nice, intelligent, young lady. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 5 of 13: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (00:45) * 1 lines Maybbe we need a more general thread for "media updates" or some such? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 6 of 13: Johanne (JohanneD) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (00:53) * 1 lines Renaming and pruning will be included in the spring cleaning ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 7 of 13: Linda Yelton (DaRcYfAn) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (17:47) * 1 lines Claudia....alledged affair????? Where have I been? Oh, COOL! Anyway, it could be Mrs. Darcy in later years...I was glad to see her back again with dark hair...Jennifer as a blond was hard to imagine (talk about getting the actress mixed up with the real life individual!) I would love to go see this movie with her in it...just hope it isn't too depressing! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 8 of 13: Arnessa (Arnessa) * Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (21:27) * 1 lines I read that SHE dumped him. Somewhere on Friends of Firth site, there's an articles section. In one of them, it quotes "someone close to Ehle" as saying she realized that he could never love her the way she wanted to be loved. (??!! I could make some rather crude comment here, but I'll refrain.) It would appear he's a rather emotionally distant person. Who knows? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 9 of 13: Susan Christie (Susan) * Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (21:48) * 1 lines And who cares! It's not really his mind that I'm most interested in! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 10 of 13: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (00:55) * 6 lines Susan: It's not really his mind that I'm most interested in! Susan, you are cutting quite a lacivious swath here at Spring today, and all I can say is You Go Girl! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 11 of 13: Amy Wolf (amy2) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (12:00) * 1 lines Cheryl, where there is passionate intrigue, I expect you to be there! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 12 of 13: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (16:31) * 1 lines ooh baby, ooh baby! ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 144 of 178 [austen]: Jennifer Ehle in February Vanity Fair Response 13 of 13: Susan Christie (Susan) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (22:42) * 2 lines Thanks, Cheryl! You guys must be a bad influence on me. I'm totally innocent, ya know... :)

Topic 9 of 12 [austenarchive]: Ramble Response 346 of 362: Inko (Inko) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (19:27) * 7 lines Ann, So glad they found your car. Hope it'll be driveable soon!! There is a terrific review of P&P2 in today's NY Times by Christoper Lehmann-Haupt, a book reviewer. He compares P&P2 to the book and likes it very well indeed, better than any other Austen adaptation. Link is: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/tv-austen-review.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 9 of 12 [austenarchive]: Ramble Response 347 of 362: Ann (Ann) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (19:37) * 3 lines That is an increadible review!! (By the way, you probably have to register at the NYTimes site before you can view the stories there. I would heartily recommend that you do. The NYTimes site is one of the best newspapers on the web and includes most, if not all, of the printed paper (including the crossword puzzle!!)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 177 of 179 [austen]: Ramble Response 3 of 3: Amy (Amy) * Mon, Feb 10, 1997 (23:12) * 276 lines Last few days, part 2 ____ Topic 9 of 12 [austenarchive]: Ramble Response 348 of 362: Ann (Ann) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (20:06) * 27 lines I have sent the NYTimes a E-letter in response to this article. I thought I would share it with all of you: Dear Sir or Madam, Your reporter, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, is not the first to fall in love with the BBC/A&E production of Pride and Prejudice. This production in particular, and Jane Austen in general, has a large and loyal following on the internet. There are several sites which have been founded specifically for the purpose of discussing this production, and which have subsequently been broadened to include all of the works of Jane Austen. Other sites have been established solely to provide information and access to Au ten's works on the internet. Some of the URL's are as follows: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/janeinfo.html http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/austen/all/new (requires registration) http://www.bluemarble.net/~amyloo/wwwboard/ppbb.html It is suprising to me that she, of all authors, has such a strong following in cyberspace. I am continually amazed by the wide variety of Jane Austen information available on the internet, as well as the variety of people interested in her work. The virtual community which has been created around an interest in Jane Austen includes men and women, it includes people from the age of nine to well over sixty, and spans several continents and languages. It represents the best of what the internet can be by bringing together so many people in so many different walks of life, races, and cultures. We have come together and have indeed formed a community. We cry together when one of us suffers from a loss of a loved one, and we celebrate when one of us pa ses a milestone in life. We support eachother, even though few of us have ever met or even know what the others look like. We are grateful to Miss Austen for giving us the reason come together, and are grateful to the BBC/A&E production for introducing so many of us to her work. I am glad that your paper has recognised this wonderful production, which has brought so many people to enjoy Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen, and which has brought so many of us together in cyberspace. Thank you, Ann Elizabeth Haker haker001@tc.umn.edu

Ann, this is such a lovely letter. Hope NY Times prints it.

Wonderful letter Ann and happy you get your car back!

Killer letter, Ann! Maybe Amy will have a film crew following her around next week!

Moved from its own topic: __ Topic 180 of 181: Review of Emma in TV Guide Tue, Feb 11, 1997 (08:23) | Kim (kimmer) The following is a review by Susan Stewart: It pains me to say it, but the author of the line "It was a delightful visit-perfect in being much too short" has overstayed her welcome. The latest Austen adaptation translates delicate wit into sitcom-style banter, turns Emma's romantic machinations into silly daydreams and ends with a harvest festival straight out of Thomas hardy-oops, wrong classy British author. Enough! My score:3 out of 10. Also in the same issue in the program description it states: Though this 1996 BBC adaptation is visually arresting and faithfyl to the novel, it lacks the charm of last year's theatrical release starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In this version, Kate Beckinsale displays little of Emma's willful likability; she plays her as a sometimes mean-spirited matchmaker determined to raise a friend's social station by finding a husband. 6 new of 6 responses total. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 180 of 181 [austen]: Review of Emma in TV Guide Response 1 of 6: Linda In Ga. (Darcyfan) * Tue, Feb 11, 1997 (10:19) * 1 lines Oh No! I for one..will still watch it...Go Sue Bristwistle and Andrew Davies!...after all, they gave us the best production I have ever seen...I will watch in anticipation of another well done Austen adaptation....Next week, we can give our own opinions....Kim, we will then know how we feel about Susan Stewart as a critic...right? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 180 of 181 [austen]: Review of Emma in TV Guide Response 2 of 6: Carolyn Esau (Carolyn) * Tue, Feb 11, 1997 (11:10) * 1 lines People Magazine gave it a glowing review. Claimed it was better than the GP & JN version. Grade: A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 180 of 181 [austen]: Review of Emma in TV Guide Response 3 of 6: Johanne (JohanneD) * Tue, Feb 11, 1997 (11:16) * 1 lines After Martha here's Susan, well...who's in line for stone throwing... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 180 of 181 [austen]: Review of Emma in TV Guide Response 4 of 6: Johanne (JohanneD) * Tue, Feb 11, 1997 (11:17) * 3 lines After Martha here's Susan, well...who's in line for stone throwing... Now nobody touches Patrick, Please ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 180 of 181 [austen]: Review of Emma in TV Guide Response 5 of 6: Dina (Dina) * Tue, Feb 11, 1997 (12:33) * 1 lines T.V. Guide gave it a 3 out of 10. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 180 of 181 [austen]: Review of Emma in TV Guide Response 6 of 6: Carl W. Goss (lasalle) * Tue, Feb 11, 1997 (12:49) * 9 lines 3rd Try! I'm now a little worried about this production of Emma. Jane Austen wrote fiction, but fiction that seems very real . Dream/fantasy sequences? Hope ITV/A&E arn't going Hollywood. Emma causes a lot of real pain and distress to those around her. She gets a very real dressing down by Mr knightly for her treatment of Miss Bates. No need for dream/fanstasy sequences. Bears close watching, seems to me. This Sunday at 9PM PST tells the tale.

I was amused to find a picture from the upcoming A&E Emma in the PBS Austen videos section -- amused because that particular video is NOT one of the videos being sold!

People magazine review of EMMA by Tom Gliatto Had enough of Jane Austen? Ready to mo on to Jacqueline Susann? Not so fast. This adatpation is terrific and far superior to the the recent Gwynth Paltrow film. The key is Kate Beckinsdale. She's just about perfect as Austen's "handsome, clever and rich" young heroine, who insists on playin matchmaker to the citizens of Higubury, only to find repeatedly that she understands nothing of the longings of the human heart. Paltro played the part with a swanlike haoughtiness. Beckinsdale is bibrantly girli h and romantic. And she looks smashing in Empire-waist dresses. Emma, as adapted by Andrew Davies, captures no just Austen's ligth charm but the pinpricks of her social criticism. Samantha Morton, as the illegitimate Harriet Smith, and Olivia Williams, as Jane Fairfax--who faces a dreary future as a governess--are affectingly vunerable. While Emma, secure in her wealth, prattles on about romance, these penniless women know that the town's eligilble bachelors will judge them accortding to the size of their purse. And likely reject them. Grade:A

Please keep in mind that PEOPLE panned P&P2. They didn't like Jennifer Ehle. So don't trust too much in their reviews!

Could it be that different people did the reviews,Amy? What didn't this person like about Jennifer Ehle?

Whew! At least he didn't complement this version's Mr. Knightly! I can take it if this is a better adaptation, but never let it be said that anyone but Jeremy Northam could be the definitive Mr. Knightly!! (I think I need to head to the drool conference) :)

On the other hand, Susan Stewart of TV Guide (who loved P&P) says: It pains me to say it but the author of the line "It was a delightful visit - perfect in being much too short" has overstayed her welcome. The latest Austen adaptation translates delicate wit into sitcom-style banter, turns Emma's romantic machinations into silly daydreams and ends with a harvest festival straight out of Thomas Hardy - oops, wrong classy British author. Enough! My score: 3

No kidding, Kaff. I will survive the whole of this version muttering to myself: "Who is this impostor?! What have they done with my Mr. Knightley?!!!"

And another Review from "The Best Video Guide" A&E EMMA. I would say that this man has a deeper understanding of "Jane Austen". http://www.tbvg.com/movies/emmaja.htm If this doesn't work try http://www.tbvg.com/ scroll to Upcoming Videos, click on JA Emma A&E

Why? Because this man sits and moralizes for the interviewers, while Jeremy merely laughs? Actually, I have heard what Mr. Northam has said about his character and the novel itself, and I am not unimpressed!

Minor note: Anyone get the J. Peterman catalogue? The latest advertises an empire waist dress under the title "Jane Austen Is Always in Style." Would not Jane be surprised (and perhaps a tad dismayed) to get a nod from such a pretentious fop! I had to chuckle when I read that.

Speaking of catalogs, I miss Levinsons for Serious Readers. They lost me when I moved. Anybody else find every single thing in there something you want?

]Speaking of catalogs, I miss Levinsons for Serious Readers. They lost me when I moved. Anybody else find every single thing in there something you want? Always. But I'm not sure it was your move, Amy. I stopped getting it, too and I've been here since '84.

I sometimes get it with my Sunday New York Times, but it has been a little while now since it came.

I hope Levensons is not out of business. What a comment on society.

sorry to go completely off topic, but thought you might want to ee a picture of Jennifer Ehle in the homepage (unofficial) of the royal shakespeare co.. her hair is its natural color, and she looks a bit meryl streepish here by the eay: http://www.hiway.co.uk/~ei/cast.html#newfaces

my goodness! i'm really sorry for the typos-- it's the darn carpal tunnel acting up again. i don't type as accurately as i used to.

RE a picture of Jennifer Ehle in the homepage (unofficial) of the royal shakespeare co It's interesting in the notes to this that it says "recenlty on TV in The Camomile Lawn" (which was before P&P2) and no mention of P&P2. Maybe she's trying to escape...

I don't think the RSC has updated its homepage in almost two years.

Right - the RSC has updated its "schedule" pages, but not it's "info" pages such as profiles of the actors and highlights of "recent" productions. That picture of JE is the one that all the casting people have - it also appears in "The Making Of" book on page 16.

In one of the January issues Time Mag. gave P&P2 one of the best of the best reviews.

Letter to the Editor in the March 8-14 TV Guide: Stewart misses with Austen Slight "In answer to Susan Stewart's remarks about Jane Austen overstaying her welcome [Hits & Misses, Feb. 15], I, for one, continue to love all of Austen's stories. They remain a blessed relief from graphic sex, violence and crude language. From the mid-19th century to the present, Jan Austen's books have remained in print. How long will Susan Stewart's reviews remain in print?" - Doris Cauda Toms River, NJ Good job, Doris! BTW -- why haven't we seen you here!

"I hope Levensons is not out of business. What a comment on society." Weirdness. A few days ago, I got a catologue "for serious readers." I think it is Levensons, but I never heard of it before reading your comments here. I want to buy everything in the book!

Yes, that is it. Good.

In catching up on my reading, I was reading the London Spectator, 14/21 Dec 1996 issue. There is a review there of a book called Jane Austen and the English Landscape. It sounds very nice, and gives insight into things like the scene in P&P when Lizzy comes upon Louisa, Caroline and Darcy in the shrubbery and refuses to join them. And also to the improvements Rushworth wants to make to his estate. To a New Englander with little background in Landscaping or English history, it sounds like it would be a great addition to my ever-growing library. And the fact that I am crazy about anything JA right now doesn't help.

That sounds interesting to me, too, Lynn. Rushworth and his improvements. Snort.

A coworker kindly alerted me to yet another Firth interview: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/97/03/25/timfeafea03001.html?1055815

Jane, thank you for the alert about the Firth interview in the Times! It's a very stimulating/provocative picture and article. I wish I had seen it sooner. Hope I can find a copy locally. Really, sincerest thanks!

Is it possibly on the online version of the Times? Most of the newspapers have online counterparts these days.