Emma News

Happy birthday today, November 9, to Marie Dressler. Turner Classic Movies celebrates by airing films featuring Dressler throughout their entire daytime schedule today.

ACTRESS Emma Thompson stunned students at Exeter University by telling them: "Nick Griffin would feel very comfortable here". The Oscar-winning actress made her comments in a speech to students after claiming her Rwanda-born son Tindyebwa Agaba suffered racist abuse during his studies in the city.

Denys Hawthorne, who has died aged 77, became an actor almost in spite of himself.

Australian actress Toni Collette was virtually unknown outside of the Sydney theater scene when she shot to international fame at age 22 with a starring role as an Abba-loving, overweight misfit who gets her revenge in.... Australian actress Toni Collette was virtually unknown outside of the Sydney theater scene when she shot to international fame ...

This talented, strawberry-blond British actress came to art-house audience's attention with her tour de force performance as a woman coping with the death of her lover who seemingly is haunting her, in.... This talented, strawberry-blond British actress came to art-house audience's attention with her tour de force performance as a woman coping with ...

Case of Emma fatigue sees BBC viewers turn off in millions It was supposed to be the jewel in the BBC's autumn schedule - the customary lavish period drama with an all-star cast.

PERHAPS it really was an Emma too far. After several fairly recent versions, the BBC's four-part adaptation of Jane Austen's most charming novel limped on to the screen after a protracted production process a ' the script has been kicking around for a decade.

The BBC's lavish new adaptation of Emma has seen its ratings slide. Jonathan Brown ponders the future of bonnets-and-breeches TV BBC Romola Garai as Emma in the BBC's latest period drama enlarge Jane Austen was in little doubt about the likeability of the eponymous character of her penultimate novel Emma.

"Becoming Jane" catches Anne Hathaway at a dip in her career - in the valley terrain where the "Get Smart" series stands like midrate hotels in a remote holiday resort, situated between the high-profile "The Devil Wears Prada" and the deceptively low-rent, indie-sheen of "Rachel Getting Married." She's still carting around some of her "Princess ...

IT'S no wonder Romola Garai considers herself a "corset geek". She's something of an expert on them, having appeared in a plethora of period dramas since embarking on an acting career nine years ago, including Daniel Deronda, Nicholas Nickleby and Vanity Fair to name just a few.

Emma Thompson's mother has spoken of the happiness brought to the actress by the Rwandan refugee she informally adopted six years ago.

We've often referred to The Black List, the annual countdown of favorite scripts compiled by canvassing the opinions of film industry folk, but never before, I believe, The Brit List.

Mr Woodhouse , Emma and Knightley . Photograph: David Venni/BBC 'Emma Woodhouse was born with the sun shining [ delicate, crescendoing piano twinkling ]. To a father who always expected the worst [ strings join in ]. And a carefree mother whose smile Emma was not to remember.

Following the success of the movie adaptation of Austin's Pride & Prejudice , Indian filmmakers have gone back in time to recreate another classic piece of English literature from the author.

Nevada , Oct 3 : Bollywood is trying its hand on bringing back Jane Austen's Emma on the big screen in the incarnation of "Aisha". Sonam Kapoor, 24, will play the Bollywood version "Aisha" what Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow did in 1996 Oscar winner "Emma". While Austen's Emma was set in 19th century rural England, "Aisha" is based in present times ...

This year the Beeb has returned to familiar territory, showcasing a sparkling new rendition of Jane Austen's much-screened classic Emma.

Bookworms are flocking to Wimbledon for a week of top authors and great stories.

Thank heavens for little sisters. They can always be trusted to tell it as it is.

Charles Darwin's On The Origin Of Species is one of the few books that changed the world.

A guilt-ridden thief has returned two gargoyles to actress Phyllida Law - two years after she cast a spell on the culprit.