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Civil war historian/baseball guru William E. Gienapp's seminar on the American pastime? Maximum enrollment: 20. Newly-recruited Northwestern University professor Jane Mansbridge's class on race, gender and politics? Just...
They're sisters, they're Brits, and they've both been in Jane Austen movies. But that's where the similarities between EMMA and SOPHIE THOMPSON end. "Emma loves Austen, but I've never been a great reader. As a child I read Peanuts and Asterix," says Sophie, who plays the woebegone Miss Bates in Emma and the difficult sister Mary Musgrove in Persuasion. While Emma studied at Cambridge, Sophie left school early, and says her favorite hobby is "gluing things." Her mother Phyllida Law, also in Emma, is now making a movie with Emma, but the three have...
SHAKESPEARE: THE OLD JANE AUSTEN...
Shakespeare, it turns out, doesn't need CAA. As if to say, "So there, Jane Austen!", the Bard is back in maximum force. There are two films based on Romeo and Juliet: one using the text but transplanted to a Miami-esque beach town; the other, Love Is All There Is, set in the Bronx and retold by writer-directors Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor. Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Trevor Nunn has a Twelfth Night starring Helena Bonham Carter and Nigel Hawthorne. Richard III, recently modded up by Ian McKellen, gets the Al Pacino treatment in Looking for Richard...
Unlike Stephen King's blockbusters, the best sellers churned out by Tom Clancy always seem as though they are written for readers who would otherwise head for the beach with the newest edition of a Jane's defense manual nestled alongside their sunblock. Only in a Clancy opus are M1A2 battle tanks, F-16 planes and C-5B Galaxy transports sprinkled through the text more liberally than punctuation...