Very good idea, Katy. I've been a bit concerned lately about the proliferation of new topics. Some of them are duplications of existing topics and others are really too single-purpose to really merit a new topic. It gets confusing when you re-enter the conference and are confronted by a huge list of unread items (especially because there's no way of knowing how many unread messages are in each thread--Terry, is there some way of adding this to the "New" screen? That way we could go directly to hose that have only 1 or 2 new posts when we're short on time.). Perhaps we could also reorganize the topics under master headings--for instance, a "P&P" heading would cover The Adaptation, Light & Bright, Guilty Pleasures, etc., and a Firth heading would cover Drooling, Nostromo . . . and just about everything else . . . not a good example. I'm trying to think of ways of imposing a little order here. Ideas, anyone?

"ach thread--Terry, is there some way of adding this to the "New" screen? ' Amy could make direct links to these items at the top of the page. Regarding your other thoughts, a new conference called Austentest has just been created, and the committees which had been discussing the reorganization possiblities are now going to continue the discussion in there. Feel free to join Austentest and read what has already been brought up and add any other thoughts that may not have been thought of. Topic 6 would probably be the one of most general interest - at present the others are largely geeky in nature. ;-)

I attempted an interface to organize topics into groups in the apps conference. Take a look at my menus that I started writing. Create one for this conferences and whatever other conferences you plan to create. I'll answer more specific about paths s etc. in email and in deeper.

Mobil Masterpiece Theatre, in the Winter-Spring Schedule : Persuasion (repeat), April 6 (one 2-hour presentation) Rebecca (repeat) April 13-20 (one 90 min; one 2-hour presentation) The Buccaneers (repeat) April 27-May11 (one 2-hour presentation) In January, some interesting showing on Showcase : Jan-24 Gabriela, from Dona Flor's novel Jorge Amado with Sonia Braga and Marcello M. (Brazil 1983) Jan-26 The Story of Fausta, dir. Bruno Barreto (Portugal 1988) Jan-27 Black Orpheus, dir. Marcel Camus (France-Brezil 1959) Jan-28 A passage to India (UK 1985)

Thanks, that is what I need - repeated in one place as well as scattered all over the conference.

:Rebecca (repeat) April 13-20 (one 90 min; one 2-hour presentation) The new Rebecca stars P&P2's Emilia Fox.

] The new Rebecca stars P&P2's Emilia Fox. __ Good! So P&P gave her her shot.

My favourite rumour source in the U.K. tells me that there is a B.B.C. re-make of "The Mill on the Floss" in the pipeline. If I get any more info, will let oyu know.

] The new Rebecca stars P&P2's Emilia Fox. __ Good! So P&P gave her her shot. According to "The Making Of" book, the thing that was "holding her back" was that her dad was insisting that she finish college first.

That can be tough, Joan...the lure of the real world is irresistible! ;{

Joan, I think in "Making of" it said she was just about to start at Oxford. She was only 19 at the time. Presumably, by now, she might have had a year or two there (she wasn't in P&P so much that she would have had to miss more than a few days, since Oxford only starts late Sept. or early Oct.) and could have filmed Rebecca over last summer's long vacation. She's probably still there. Most degrees at Oxford consist of three years' study. Since she managed to get into Oxford (difficult, nowadays) her ather will probably insist she finish!

Oh on the Mill of the Floss, Mrs Bennet Alison Steadman is in it. I read it somewhere but cannot remember for the life of me where? How strange. I'm still waiting for The Tenant of Wildfell hall? with Rupert Graves. MY RUPERT GRAVES.

Rebecca (repeat) April 13-20 (one 90 min; one 2-hour presentation) Since we're talking about REBECCA, here's a great web site I just found on DuMaurier in the UK... http://www.westwind.co.uk/westwind/cornwall/daphne/carlton.html

I had no idea Miss Darcy and Mrs.Gardner were mother and daughter. What a small world ths acting thing is.

Mich: I had no idea Miss Darcy and Mrs.Gardner were mother and daughter. What a small world ths acting thing is. Perhaps we should amend that to say "What a small world this British acting thing is." ;-)

Cheryl, Good point, it is more with the british than anyone else. Hmmmmm. Mich

" My favourite rumour source in the U.K. tells me that there is a B.B.C. re-make of "The Mill on the Floss" in the pipeline. If I get any more info, will let oyu know". I've already seen it. It's well worth it. Also the BBC has just shown "The Moonstone" starring Greg Wise � that should also be winging its way to the States in the near future :-)

I found this item on the Reuters wire: More Jane Mania As Studio Buys Austen's Sanditon By Rex Weiner HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - After Emma, Clueless, Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility, the Jane Austen rage continues unabated. Austen's last, unfinished novel, Sanditon, has been optioned for the big screen by Orion Pictures under a deal with the author who completed it 150 years after her death. "Audiences have shown great interest in Austen's classic tales," said Orion senior executive vice-president Steve Stabler. "We are excited to bring her last novel to life." A romantic comedy set among hypochondriacs at Sanditon, a seaside health resort, the novel was not complete at the time of Austen's death in 1817. The manuscript was finished by author Marie Dobbs and published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1975.

Anne3: A romantic comedy set among hypochondriacs at Sanditon, a seaside health resort, the novel was not complete at the time of Austen's death in 1817. The manuscript was finished by author Marie Dobbs and published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1975. Has anybody read the "completed" version? Is it worth reading? What about the Sanditon fragment itself?

Anne3: A romantic comedy set among hypochondriacs at Sanditon, a seaside health resort, the novel was not complete at the time of Austen's death in 1817. The manuscript was finished by author Marie Dobbs and published by Houghton Mifflin Co. in 1975. Has anybody read the "completed" version? Is it worth reading? What about the Sanditon fragment itself?

*sigh*

]Has anybody read the "completed" version? Is it worth reading? I enjoyed it; I read it 10 years ago, so I remember little else about it.

Gee I'll never get any laundry done.

I think it is worth reading. Not at all as vexing as Emma Tennant's P&P sequels. And better thinking in my opinion. Of course as you do not know the people in Sanditon before you can't get that awful feeling, that the author does not know the people she is telling about. I do believe Austens own chapters the first ten(?) H.C.(?) that is, are more or less starting the plot uo and then "what's her name* takes over.

I read "Sanditon" last summer and enjoyed. I believe JA wrote the first ten or eleven chapters, and it continues fairly seamlessly. JA might have done more with the characters had she lived, but it's well worth reading.

I just read this morning in the Atlanta paper that A&E is to rebroadcast P&P in February...I think it is the 8th of February....we may have lots more company in our "addicts" group in just a short while!

Sanditon, in my opinion, is an absolute hoot, and one of the best pseudo-austens on the market.So, who would you pick to play Charlotte Heywood? Sydney Parker? Arthur Parker? And muddled Sir whatsit Denham?

I recently read Austen's Minor Works, and while Sanditon was interesting, I'd much rather see Lady Susan. Now THAT would be a movie.

Is Lady Susan in print,Susan?

Donna, you can read Lady Susan at HC's Jane Austen Info page, like I did! :-)

Oh thanks Cheryl,I just read Northanger Abbey,now I have to read Mansfield Park, Lady Susan,The Watsons and Sandition.:-)

Get Minor Works and you can read a lot of Austen's earlier stuff. Lady Susan is there, as well as the Sanditons and others. I can't recommend LS highly enough!

The Video release dates for A&E EMMA is March 7,1997 drum role,JN & GP version is..................................................................................................................... APRIL 15,1997

I can't wait.

I just received Catalog # 72 from Jane Austen Books. She mentions a Box Hill Picnic in Hales Corners, Wisconsin on June 21. I do not have an atlas handy - but if Hales Corner's is close to Chicago, I could get there. The catalog mention was very brief - just what I relayed you above. Does anyone know more? Annual event? Sponsors? Cost? Any interest in making it a semi-regional group event? She mentions that if we are lucky enough to get a call from her, it will show up as "Jane Austen" on caller id. Now how do we get her to call??

Hales Corners is part of the Greater Milwaukee Area, and is located just to the south west of the city, so it is very accessable for Chicagoans.

Ann: Hales Corners is part of the Greater Milwaukee Area... I was hoping for that. Does it sound like something you would be interested in?

Maybe. It's a long way off.

Ann: Hales Corners is part of the Greater Milwaukee Area... I was hoping for that. Does it sound like something you would be interested in?

The old VCR alert topic has been archived. We can just use this and the next topic instead, can't we?

You betcha Amy! March VirtView Schedule: March 9 Timothy Dalton version of Jane Eyre March 23 Cold Comfort Farm (starring Kate Beckinsale of Emma 3) Check the calendar (link on front page) for more details.

I live in Greenfield, the suburb of Milwaukee between Milwaukee and Hales Corners. There is a fabulous botanical garden in Hlaes Corners; I wonder if this is to be the site of the Box Lunch. I would be very interested. Let's keep up on this as the time draws near.

I agree with you, Susan...I'd like to see LS adapted...perhaps they have yet to do it because the plotline is so fragmented (epistolary novels - you can't live with 'em, you can't live...sorry!) and largely unbelievable. Reginald DeCourcy would have had to have been lobotomized to be that gullible afer having been for so long respected as an intelligent being.

just finished Lady Susan during lunch yesterday (I did do something useful, Kali). What a woman!!!

If I ever succumbed to the Dark Side, I would be Lady Susan. She's the Lord Vader of Austenland...

I can't help wonder at her total lack of ethical base! Geez

Her mother probably did the same thing to her that she does to Frederica...difference being that Frederica is essentially a goodnatured, gentle soul whose aunt cares for her...she will never succumb to the dark side as her mother Annikan - er, SUSAN! - has...;)

Reginald DeCourcy would have had to have been lobotomized to be that gullible afer having been for so long respected as an intelligent being. Alas, Kali, I have seen several intelligent men become gibbering idiots over a woman they love, sometimes in direct opposition to her deserving it!

In the Sunday Newspaper Parade Magazine it states that 2000 Acres will be realeased in the US come September 1997!

I've met a lot of guys who gibber...but I thought they'd always been that way! ;{

A&E will broadcast Northanger Abbey, (1987 romance) starring Peter Firth and Katharine Schlesinger on Friday, March 21 at 4 a.m. Reminders: Persuasion airs on PBS April 6 at 9 p.m. Rebecca on PBS April 13 & 20 at 9 p.m. The Buccaneers on PBS April 27, May 4 & May 11 at 9 p.m.

Lisa, I love you -- thanks for the tips!

The Tenant of Wildfell hall? Is this the one with Emily Watson or is it Emma Watson? I just read in the New york Times possible veiwing in USA.Didn't say when.

Donna, Tenant is by Anne Bronte. If you hear when it's on, please post. I have been waiting to see it.

Lisa - thanks for the info - esp. Northanger Abby. I started this thread after missing a broadcast of NA!!

A&E will broadcast Northanger Abbey, (1987 romance) starring Peter Firth and Katharine Schlesinger on Friday, March 21 at 4 a.m. That would be 1 AM Pacific time.

Correction: Northanger Abbey is on March 20th a Thursday 4:00/1:00 AM PT. and Musicman 11:00/8:00AM PT. I got this from "Biography" listing.

Thank you all for keeping us informed -- it is really appreciated!

This NA listing may still not be right. I was going to make it a notice on the front page here and double checked it first on the www.aetv.com site. Not there.

My TV Guide says NA is on Friday morning March 21st at 4 a.m. (Eastern time). I've checked it repeatedly for the correct time. Isn't 1 a.m. pacific time 4 a.m. eastern time?

My TV Guide and the Cable Guide on the Net both state that NA will be on A&E Friday morning March 21st at 1:00AM (Pacific Time). My first reaction was that A&E repeats shows such as this so...I would take a peak at the A&E Home Page. They do not list it at all! Can you believe it?!! P&P was the highest rated show that they ever televised and what do they do? Totally bury NA at a most ungodly hour and not even mention it. Would you not think that they would have wanted to redeem themselves to us afte such a hack job on Emma with such terrible commercial interuptions. To you A&E, I again say "Badly done, indeed!" Ahem! please excuse my tyrade:-)

VirtView Notice Our next virtual view movie will be Cold Comfort Farm. Discussion will commence next Sunday, March 23. (Now back to your regularly scheduled program)

For those wishing to discuss the old BBC JA videos, let's make Northanger Abbey our next one since it will be showing on A&E this week. But shall we save discussion for the following week, since we have the Cold Comfort Farm discussion this Sunday? or do you feel up to doing both?

Cheryl, I vote for spreading them out, CCF this week and NA next.

Cheryl, I don't mind whether they're simultaneous or spread out, but could you put up the page for N.A. by Friday, 28th. That way I can get my 2 cents in before I go away for a week!! Just rented CCF - am looking forward to seeing it. I seemed to miss it in the theatres.

Found this item while surfing:Miramax is in talks with BBC Films to co-produce a feature adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Maggie Wadey is working on a the screenplay.BTW, this site looks fantastic. It collects info on British film production, and much of the stuff was new to me. Also on this page:The Scottish Arts Council's lottery fund has awarded funds to two in-progress films. Miramax's "World of Moss," and Fine Line Pictures' "The Win er Guest" have both received grants in the neighborhood of �1,000,000.00 each. "World of Moss" will be directed by Hugh Hudson and produced by Steve Norris from an adaptation of Sir Denis Forman's memoir of his childhood in Scotland. Shooting is begins on location in Spring 1997. Miramax will pick the films' remaining budget.What this item does not say, but what I have heard from another source, is that Colin Firth is appearing in this movie. There is also mention of a film for which Jeremy ortham is being considered. http://pilot.msu.edu/user/wigodski/beatdown/bcnews.htm

Isn't "The Winter Guest" the film Alan Rickman directed with Emma Thompson & Phyllida Law (Emma's mum) acting? Seems like that was being filmed last year.