Baby Dionne
Last year, Alicia Silverstone got on TikTok and promptly started turning out Clueless-themed videos featuring her ten-year-old son. Now...
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Deborah Yaffe
- May 24, 2021
Reboot, booted
Back in late 2019, when corona was just a neighborhood in Queens, the news broke that Hollywood was considering a television reboot of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 14, 2019
Hands off!
Why do people keep trying to mess with Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s 1995 movie, which updated the story of Emma to high school in Beverly...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 7, 2019
Kids in America
Over the weekend, I went to see Clueless: The Musical. It made me miss Clueless: The Movie. Which was probably not the intended effect....
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 31, 2018
Never too much Jane
Sometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 15, 2018
Austen karaoke
Recently – OK, it was two weeks ago – I found occasion to mention an old journalists’ joke: that three examples of a phenomenon...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 29, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: As If!
I love Clueless. Doesn’t everyone? Last summer marked the twentieth anniversary of the film’s release, and the milestone inspired a slew...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 15, 2015
It was 20 years ago today (almost). . .
The year 1995 marked what I’ve called the Big Bang of contemporary Jane Austen fandom: Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s famous...
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