Wuthering Heights was one of my Mom’s favorite books, but I was never able to get into it. I recently watched the PBS Masterpiece version and still find the story a bit baffling. I will have to sit down and read Wuthering Heights one of these days. I read Moby Dick and found it to be an amazing book, one that I firmly believe can never be done justice by film, as it was never meant to be a motion picture. I tend to think that maybe Wuthering Heights has the same problem, it’s a story that can’t properly be…
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My Boy Jack on PBS
My Boy Jack was a British ITV production that made its way to American TV via PBS’s Masterpiece Theater. Daniel Radcliffe plays the part of Rudyard Kipling’s son Jack. The cast is impressive and it is interesting to see Harry Potter looking a bit like Hitler wearing a uniform and a mustache. World War I was a gruesome and bloody war in which the British battle plans involved marching as many soldiers as they could into German machine gun fire. Rudyard Kipling is so keen on this course of action that he is bound and determined to put his own…
Gillian Anderson has some Buzz
Mulder: “Have you ever found a metal implant in your body?. . .Have you checked everywhere?“ Gillian Anderson is best known, and to most people only known, as David Duchovny’s uptight partner on The X-Files. The fact that there three recent stories floating around about Gillian Anderson would seem to mean that someone in her publicity department has decide to remind people that Gillian Anderson wasn’t abducted by aliens, eaten by the Loch Ness Monster, or moved to the Great White North to live with Big Foot. She just moved to London to raise a family and work in The…