Deborah YaffeNov 20Rebooting 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 YaffeNov 10, 2022Baby DionneLast year, Alicia Silverstone got on TikTok and promptly started turning out Clueless-themed videos featuring her ten-year-old son. Now...
Deborah YaffeMay 24, 2021Reboot, bootedBack in late 2019, when corona was just a neighborhood in Queens, the news broke that Hollywood was considering a television reboot of...
Deborah YaffeNov 14, 2019Hands 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 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....
Deborah YaffeOct 31, 2018Never too much JaneSometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...
Deborah YaffeJul 15, 2018Austen karaokeRecently – OK, it was two weeks ago – I found occasion to mention an old journalists’ joke: that three examples of a phenomenon...
Deborah YaffeFeb 29, 2016The 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 YaffeJul 15, 2015It 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...
