Deborah YaffeApr 29, 2019Atlanta, here we come!For those of us who are impatient to see the latest Jane Austen-inspired TV movie – i.e., for Janeites whose boundless optimism remains...
Deborah YaffeApr 15, 2019Speedy deliveryAs regular blog readers know, I have found it difficult to say anything positive about the recent spate of Jane Austen-inspired TV...
Deborah YaffeMar 28, 2019Promising news about EmmaThe upcoming big-screen adaptation of Emma has acquired a complete cast list, and for those of us who delight in fine British character...
Deborah YaffeMar 18, 2019Eternally Mr. DarcyPity poor Colin Firth. His IMDB page lists more than seventy-five film and TV credits in a career stretching back thirty-five years, and...
Deborah YaffeFeb 25, 2019BewitchedAmong Janeites, the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice is . . . controversial. Purists, especially those old enough to have seen an...
Deborah YaffeFeb 21, 2019Sanditon's SidneyProduction of the new television adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is moving along even more...
Deborah YaffeFeb 7, 2019Sanditon inches closer to the small screenJane Austen wrote only seventy pages of Sanditon before her final illness left her unable to work. In the intervening two centuries, her...
Deborah YaffeJan 10, 2019A tourist in BathLast Thursday, James McAvoy, the excellent Scottish actor who played Jane Austen’s crush Tom Lefroy in the 2007 film Becoming Jane, paid...
Deborah YaffeJan 7, 2019Kids in AmericaOver the weekend, I went to see Clueless: The Musical. It made me miss Clueless: The Movie. Which was probably not the intended effect....