IT IS difficult to open a newspaper or pass a billboard without seeing pictures of Keira Knightley, the beautiful young actress who plays Elizabeth Bennet in the new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice which opens on Friday. Posters for the film show Matthew MacFadyen, her Mr Darcy, with an open shirt and a saturnine expression worthy of Heathcliff himself.
It’s an open challenge to Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, who popularised Elizabeth and Darcy in a BBC version of the novel made 10 years ago. Their performances, and the legendary scene in which Firth emerged from a pond in a dripping shirt, established the novel - and the novelist - as the gold standard for romance. Helen Fielding, creator of Bridget Jones, christened her hero Mark Darcy and even got Colin Firth to play him in the screen version.
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There is so much respect being paid to the literary tradition of Jane Austen's classic novel, "Pride and Prejudice," it keeps the audience at a distance in Arizona Theatre Company's adaptation by Jon Jory. Much of this 2 1/2-hour production consists of various cast members talking directly to the audience, connecting scenes from the play with narration that summarizes big chunks of the novel.
Curiously, the actor who makes the strongest impression has the least to say. He is tall and stately Anthony Marble as the reticent Mr. Darcy. With his striking profile straight from an ancient Greek coin, Marble can
JANE HAWKING's book about the turbulent years of her romance with astrophysics genius and A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME author STEPHEN HAWKING is being turned into a movie.
Bosses at Hollywood's Film And Music Entertainment Inc have acquired the film rights to MUSIC TO MOVE THE STARS and now hope the story will become an Oscar-worthy epic.
The book centres on how the couple met in England at Oxford University, their marriage, Stephen's rise to fame and physical decline, Jane's unselfish dedication and support and their subsequent divorce.
The film adaptation, which will be produced by JOHN DALY, is expected to be titled
FOUR Solihull couples who married after classroom romances stepped back in time when they visited their former school for the first time in forty years.
The teenage sweethearts, who all went to Moseley School, relived their schoolday liaisons at the secondary school in College Road this week after present day teachers invited them ahead of a planned reunion marking the schools 50 anniversary. ..TEXT "But for school we might not have met" said moth-er-of-two Jane Dredge (nee Herrick) who was in the year below husband, Clive, a 58 year-old painter and decorator, at the former Moseley Modern School. "It helped
August is “Romance Awareness Month,” and Canada’s Romance Agent™ Leona Hamel is all for keeping your relationship hot and sunny year long! “Whether you’re working hard or enjoying some vacation time this month, your partner needs to feel appreciated—to feel loved every day! Summer is no exception,” says Leona Hamel, Romance Agent™. Adds Hamel, “There’s no time like now to reconnect, recommit, and re-energize your relationship!”
In her book The ABC’s of Tease & Please – A Romance Handbook, Hamel’s “sexy persona” LouLou L’Amour writes, “A relationship can never have too much romance.” Unfortunately, there are those (you know who
The times have changed. Jane Bell takes a romantic break and discovers the new Croatia - now a must-see tourist destination
25 June 2005
Time was, the only mention we heard of Croatia was in a news report of the long and bitter war in the former Yugoslavia. But times have changed. And now Croatia is back on the tourist must-see list - and deservedly so.
Leaving the kids at home with Granny, we took a romantic spring break to Istria, the largest peninsula on the Adriatic coast, at the north-west corner of this beautiful country.
And, yes, it really was romantic -