Jane Austen Fans....PBS Begins MARATHON...tonight! ...and every Sunday Night...

[KoKo]

for all you Jane Austen Fans...who want to INDULGE! 9:00 p.m. on my PBS! (EST) still time to catch the first one..

[Emit]

1. Thanks for the heads up --

I'm a fan! My kids and I always watch Nature at 8 o'clock on Sunday nights - so I can catch it right afterwards.

[Warpy]

2. Any man who wants to know how women tick

needs to read the entire body of work Austen produced. Yes, the social structure is dated and we no longer think of marriage as the be all and end all of life. However, if a man wants to understand how we look at each other and how we relate to them, they need to read it.

Sadly, the only male author whose female characters I haven't found completely flat was Paul Scott, who wrote the Raj Quartet.

[KoKo]

6. Understand what you say...n/t....might add a couple more to Raj

but then I'd have to squeeze my failing hard drive...but yeah...you got alot of it...

[tomreedtoon]

21. Nobody knows how women work. Not even women.

There is probably just as much understanding of women in a Kool and the Gang song as in Austen.

It is, of course, the sort of artsy-fartsy stuff that PBS runs around pledge time, in hoping that all those rich fans of Firing Line will throw a few pennies towards their cultural endeavors.

This comment, by the way, levied by someone who worked at a PBS station during one of its good years.

[question everything]

23. Thankfully, the movie was not interrupted for pledge breaks

only at the end was a comment about donating, when I turned it off.

[BeatleBoot]

3. This is funny because I just got done telling Mrs. BeatleBoot

that I would rather watch paint dry than watch Jane Austen.

She kicked me out of the room and here I sit at the computer.

Oh, well, I'm just a red-blooded American male, I guess.

[lavenderdiva]

4. you're not alone....

when I wanted to watch tonight's episode, mr. ld said the exact same thing, and left the room, to go watch the TV in the bedroom-

[KoKo]

8. The POWER of AUSTIN!.....okay......many of you watch "Games/Sports"...

so...okay...let us have our day...although my Hubby is trying to "understand" so lack of Baseball has forced him on the couch....to watch. :D

[indie_voter]

22. LOL! My dad was a huge Austen fan

Every time I re-read one of her novels or watch a production on TV, I think of him and wish he was still alive, watching with me.

My mom loves it too, but it used to be the three of us (my siblings could care less) watching together. I had moved away by the time the 90s Austen craze happened, but when they came to visit we would pop in the tapes...

That said, he'd choose the game first too! ;)

[mondo joe]

5. Thank you! I didn't know and would have missed it. PERSUASION it is!

:-)

[KoKo]

9. Yes and they are going to do ALL the Jane Austin's into the Spring! A Treat or "devastation" for

Male or otherwise Partners....

[earth mom]

7. Thanks for the reminder-I thought it was next week.

I can't wait. I'm a HUGE Jane Austin fan. :applause:

[KoKo]

10. On NOW...in many PBS Stations...check ....n/t

[riverdeep]

11. I know this is only tangentially related,

but I'll mention it anyway. People interested in Jane Austen might also be interested in an amazing adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel, 'The House of Mirth'.



Honestly, the only reason I even bothered with this movie was because of Gillian Anderson- I was curious how she would do in a serious role. But, I was ready to bail at a moment's notice because the whole thing sounded so boring (I'd never read the novel). Twenty minutes in, I was hooked! Great, subtle, tragic movie. And Anderson was excellent.

[KoKo]

14. Wharton is good,too...where do we find "House of Mirth?" Rental/New?

[Ilsa]

15. House of Mirth with G.Anderson has been out a number of years.

I rented it ages ago when hubby was on a business trip and he was really disappointed he didn't get to watch it with me. He loves the Wharton, Austen, etc stuff. Gillian was wonderful, too.

[NuttyFluffers]

Gillian Anderson is also great in 'Bleak House'

you should check it out.

i really got into period pieces when i hung around people interested in costumes, antiques, and accents. mixed with a love of decent writing and the acting comparisons of various versions i became hooked. it's kind of like a sporting event, with the held breath waiting to see if everything pulls off. but then i'm not into sporting events much, so that's probably a bad analogy...

[NuttyFluffers]

25. Gillian Anderson is also great in 'Bleak House'

you should check it out.

i really got into period pieces when i hung around people interested in costumes, antiques, and accents. mixed with a love of decent writing and the acting comparisons of various versions i became hooked. it's kind of like a sporting event, with the held breath waiting to see if everything pulls off. but then i'm not into sporting events much, so that's probably a bad analogy...

[Le Taz Hot]

12. Thanks for the heads-up.

I didn't even KNOW about this. I LOVE Jane Austin!

[KoKo]

13. The travel England thing with Bath and York after the show was good, too.

Nice to see that "tie in." A break from all the POLITICS! And...next week there's the CONTINUATION...and every week after for months a new EPISODE! :applause: A break...from all the REAL WORLD!

[tandem5]

16. It would have been too dreadful, indeed, and I fear I cannot fully

apprehend all my dispositions to such a state as to have not known the news you tell me on this very day. I am most fortunate, to be sure, of the many connexions afforded me here on the Democratic Underground...

Wait... what did I just say??

[IcyPeas]

24. Jane, is that you?

[rosesaylavee]

17. Great acting

And good casting. Liked it a lot. Watched it with my husband who had been reminding me about all this past week. The sisters were a riot. What a pathetic gene pool that Captain Wentworth married into.

Did you see Jane Eyre last week? Great production but Rochester was way too good looking to be believable. Best production I ever saw had George C. Scott in that role back in the 70s. He was perfect. Just the person I imagined the first time I read that book.

[indie_voter]

18. I loved the Timothy Dalton version from the early 80s.

You'd think he's too handsome for the role, but he overcame that handicap! ;)

My favorite Persuasion is with Ciaran Hinds as Wentworth.

[mondo joe]

19. I couldn't buy Dalton as Rochester. But I did very much like him as Heathcliff in

an adaptation of Wuthering Heights some years ago.

[indie_voter]

20. Laurence Olivier is my favorite Heathcliff but I never liked the book.

Olivier also did a good Darcy unfortunately Garson was poorly cast as Elizabeth.

So far the best Persuasion for me is Hinds/Root 1995 adaptation. For Pride and Prejudice, I liked the early 80s BBC version but the Colin Firth version is my favorite!

[rosesaylavee]

27. Saw Dalton as Heathcliff...

again, too good looking for Rochester... the key to Rochester is that he thinks Blanche and the other cuties only go for him because of the money but find him physically unattractive. And rough looks help when he plays the gypsy woman which our guy this past week didn't do in this adaptation.

Dalton is great actor tho - not hard on the eyes at all.

[Darth_Kitten]

26. This Rochester was very believable.......IMO

great actor. :)

I have the DVD.

[rosesaylavee]

28. Oh, I agree he was a great actor but his looks

were a handicap... esp those scenes when he was asking Jane if he was handsome enough. Doh! Ya think? Buy yourself a mirror guy - you ain't half bad!

That's why I thought George C Scott did so well - not traditionally the male romantic lead type - but it worked. Unfortunately it was one of those stupid made-for-tv movie things and I have never been able to find it for sale. Samantha Egar played Jane. Have seen it since on late night TV but its chopped all to pieces to make room for commercials. Too bad.

[Darth_Kitten]

29. I like a little artistic license.....when it gives us some well-deserved.....

eye candy. :)

[rosesaylavee]

30. I just am not going to persuade you otherwise am I?

:P

[Darth_Kitten]

31. Nope

The actress playing Jane was actually pretty, not plain. So Rochester could be a little less, well, not handsome.

But still, I think they were both very believable.

[rosesaylavee]

32. Actually, that last

was just messing around ... as this is a thread about Persuasion. :)

We can agree that the production was just what it needed to be. Great cast, great location, great costumes.

[applegrove]

33. I saw it but was too tired to watch. I'll try again next week.