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The Line of Thought
. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Clueless again?
The 1995 film Clueless is many things—a beloved teen comedy, the locus classicus for indispensable expressions like “As if!” and one of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 7
Back in the day
I still remember the first time I watched the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice . At the time, my husband and I lived...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 30
Rebooting Clueless: The Musical
Almost five years ago, I saw the off-Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical and found it a disappointingly pallid version of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 20, 2023
Baby Dionne
Last year, Alicia Silverstone got on TikTok and promptly started turning out Clueless-themed videos featuring her ten-year-old son. Now...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 10, 2022
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
May 24, 2021
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
Nov 14, 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
Jan 7, 2019
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
Nov 1, 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
Jul 16, 2018
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
Feb 29, 2016
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 16, 2015
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