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2 hrs ago | Bronte Blog

Heathcliff is not going to the Emmys

Let's start with unexpected news, it seems that the PBS has not submitted Wuthering Heights 2009 to the Emmy Awards.

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Wuthering Heights, Drama Movies, Adventure, Musical Movies, Drama, Arts, Literature, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Thu Jul 02, 2009

The Japan Times

Propeller puts an old spin back on the Bard

"Propeller may be another English group of actors doing a play by their compatriot, Shakespeare, but this is something quite different.

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Related Topix: Japan, World News, Theater, Arts, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, The Merchant of Venice, Essex County, England, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England

Wed Jul 01, 2009

BBC

Quarry backdrop for film remake

The film crew remaking the Hollywood blockbuster Clash of the Titans have chosen a quarry in north Wales for some of its scenes.

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Related Topix: Clash of the Titans, Family, Action Movies, Adventure, Maggie Smith, Gwynedd County, Wales, United Kingdom

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Jude Law returning to Broadway in 'Hamlet'

Jude Law is bringing his current West End triumph in the title role of " Hamlet " to Broadway in September.

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Related Topix: Animation Movies, Short, Hamlet, Music!, Thriller, Crime Movies, Family, Drama Movies, Sherlock Holmes, Cold Mountain, War Movies, Jude Law

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Associated Content

Is Daniel Day-Lewis the Greatest Screen Actor to Ever Come to Hollywood Via England?

There used to be little debate over the issue at hand; Laurence Olivier was routinely referred to as the greatest living actor.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

HomeTownLife.com

Bard's buddies

Kate Ulrey remembers when she became captivated by the plays of William Shakespeare.

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Related Topix: War Movies, Drama Movies, Richard III, History Movies, Dearborn, MI, Garden City, MI, Family, Kids

Thu Jun 25, 2009

The Independent

Dame Helen is live and in HD

Going global: Helen Mirren stars in 'Phedre' enlarge Tonight, when Nicholas Hytner's National Theatre production of Racine's Phdre, starring Helen Mirren, is broadcast via satellite from the Lyttelton to 70 cinemas in the UK, and 200 around the world, a 21st-century solution will be provided to a perennial question.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, King Lear, Ian Holm, Arts, Opera

Thu Jun 18, 2009

University of Bristol news

Enter the Cabinet of Curiosities

As part of the Universitya s ongoing centenary celebrations , the Universitya s museum and archive collections have selected 100 gems to showcase in an online virtual exhibition entitled the Cabinet of Curiosities .

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Related Topix: The Entertainer, Music!, Drama Movies

Wed Jun 10, 2009

FilmCritic

Richard III

Laurence Olivier's Richard III is one of the stagiest versions of Shakespeare you'll find on film, and it's also his least faithful work, chopping and editing the Bard's play willy-nilly. I'm no Shakespeare expert, but even I can spot the hatchet work here.

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Related Topix: Richard III, History Movies, War Movies, Drama Movies, Animation Movies, Short, Hamlet, Music!, Thriller, Crime Movies, Family, Cedric Hardwicke, Movies, Entertainment

Fri Jun 05, 2009

NOLA.com

Veteran actor Ron Gural shines as Shakespeare Fest's 'King Lear'

The Fool , right, is the only person who can tell King Lear the truth in the tragedy that opens this year's Tulane Shakespeare Festival.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, King Lear, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Rebecca, Tulane University, Theater, Arts, Entertainment

UTV

Spartacus

The great-granddaddy of Ridley Scott's Gladiator hasn't lost any muscle tone after nearly half a century, and Kirk Douglas's direct, unpretentious performance as the great slave-rebel Spartacus is more engaging than ever.

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Related Topix: Spartacus, Short, History Movies, War Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Action Movies, Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov, Classical

Wed Jun 03, 2009

Pop Syndicate

The Boys From Brazil

A famed Nazi hunter uncovers a plot by Nazi Dr. Mengele to change the course of the world.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, The Boys from Brazil, Thriller, Science Fiction Movies, Gregory Peck

Guardian Unlimited

Can Catherine Hardwicke and Emile Hirsch make a Hamlet for our times?

The Twilight director and her Lords of Dogtown star are reuniting on a new film of Shakespeare's Dane.

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Related Topix: Animation Movies, Short, Hamlet, Music!, Thriller, Crime Movies, Family, Drama Movies, Mystery Movies, Twilight, Emile Hirsch, Richard Burton, R-N-B

Thu May 28, 2009

The Georgia Straight

In search of Othello

In Bard on the Beach's first stab at the great tragedy, a veteran director and a young actor wrestle with raw emotions and racial tensions Othello is one of William Shakespeare's greatest works, a tragedy right up there with Hamlet and Macbeth .

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Related Topix: Othello, Drama Movies, Animation Movies, Short, Hamlet, Music!, Thriller, Crime Movies, Family

Wed May 27, 2009

IcTheWharf

Tony Curtis: From Monroe to Mario

For nearly 60 years, Tony Curtis has rubbed shoulders with sirens and studs of the big screen.

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Related Topix: Spartacus, Short, History Movies, War Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Action Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Thriller, Crime Movies, Musical Movies, Film Noir, Sweet Smell of Success, The Defiant Ones, Tony Curtis

Tue May 26, 2009

Bronte Blog

Asian Brontes

Journal Live has an article on Tamasha's Wuthering Heights as the production arrives in Newcastle tomorrow and runs until Saturday.

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Related Topix: Wuthering Heights, Drama Movies, Adventure, Musical Movies, Bollywood, EastEnders, Soap Opera, Entertainment, Television, Arts, Cinema, World News, India

Sun May 24, 2009

San Diego Reader

Rebecca

A Hitchcock special -- a creamy, thick, sweetish blend of genres, with ingredients from detective stories , Gothic thrillers , and tearjerkers .

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Related Topix: Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Rebecca, Joan Fontaine, Wedding, Movies, Entertainment

Fri May 22, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Scenes of the fathers

Errol Flynn had a personal shorthand for marking up scripts according to whether any imaginative effort was required to prepare for a role, or if he was simply being called upon to play himself.

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Related Topix: Brideshead Revisited, Entertainment, Television, Diana Quick, World News, India, Asia, Dentistry,

FindingDulcinea

Happy Birthday, Sir Laurence Olivier, Stage and Screen Actor

Some consider Laurence Olivier to be Britain's Marlon Brando: he changed the landscape of theater and film in his time, and made Shakespeare exciting and accessible.

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Related Topix: Animation Movies, Short, Hamlet, Fire Over England, Music!, Thriller, History Movies, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Family, War Movies, Drama Movies, Adventure, Rebecca, Wuthering Heights, Musical Movies, King Lear

UPI

The almanac

Today is Friday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2009 with 223 to follow. The moon is waning.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Arthur Conan Doyle, Vocal, Sun Ra, Jazz, Chanson, Charles Aznavour, Peter Nero

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