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15 hrs ago | The Toronto Star

Lantos finds three wives for Barney

Martin Knelman H ow do you solve a problem like the three wives of Barney Panofsky? Robert Lantos, the veteran producer who is finally bringing Barney's Version , Mordecai Richler's last novel, to the big screen, has come up with the answers.

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Related Topix: Good Will Hunting, Drama Movies, Minnie Driver, Pride and Prejudice, Comedy Movies, Pride & Prejudice, Rosamund Pike, Vocal

Thu Jul 09, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

McNulty's next case: Mr Darcy

After winning acclaim for his drunken detective in The Wire, actor Dominic West's new project sees him reading from classic books including Pride and Prejudice.

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Related Topix: Dominic West, Blues, Dan Stevens, Vocal

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Chichester Today

Dominic West reads sexy scenes

Dominic West is to get his fans' pulses racing by reading saucy scenes. The Wire hunk, whose character Jimmy McNulty has an army of swooning admirers, has been recruited to read seduction scenes from classics such as Lady Chatterley's Lover.

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Related Topix: Dominic West, Vocal

Bay Guardian

Visual art: We walk with a zombie

PHENOM In our heads, in our heads: zombies, zombies, zombies. Don't blame me for taking a bite out of your brain and inserting an annoying tune in its place - once again, not long after the last onslaught of undead trends, our culture is totally zombie mad.

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Related Topix: Zombi, Electronic, George A. Romero, Vocal

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Mail & Guardian

Twitterati clinch publishing deal

There's no stopping the twitterati. Two University of Chicago undergraduates, Emmett Rensin and Alex Aciman, have landed a publishing deal to twitter the classics of literature.

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Related Topix: University of Chicago, Arts, Literature, Vocal

Sun Jul 05, 2009

The Herald

Teens hot on summer reading

Three people are waiting to check out the venerable Jane Austen classic "Pride and Prejudice" from the Sno-Isle Libraries, a pittance compared with the 129 in the queue for the modern-day spin-off "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." The popularity of the ghoulish upstart reflects a trend in teen reading habits.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Vocal, Arts, Literature, Snohomish County, WA, Island County, WA

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Dallas Morning News

Rockwall Good Kid: Haley Loftis of Rockwall High School

School, grade and college plans: Rockwall High School graduate; attending Texas A&M University to major in animal sciences Community and school activities: student council, Drug Free Youth in Texas, head cheerleader, National Honor Society, Non-Users Non-Abusers, Academic Booster Club, National Charity League My hobbies are: fishing with my dad, ...

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Related Topix: Rockwall, TX, Texas A&M University, Vocal, Dallas, TX

Thu Jul 02, 2009

UnBeige

Ruben Toledo Covers the Classics

Looking to convince some aesthetically astute youngsters to read the classics? Penguin can help.

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Related Topix: Vocal

Wed Jul 01, 2009

This is bath

Fans do the Darcy bustle to win award

People across the world have been voting for their favourite Mr Darcy, in an event organised by the Bath Jane Austen Centre.

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Related Topix: Vocal

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Sleaford Today

Classic Jane Austen book tops reader poll

THE most popular book among Sleaford readers is Pride and Prejudice. It topped a poll held by Walker's Bookshop as part of Independent Booksellers Week celebrations.

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Related Topix: Vocal

Tri-City News

a Good Read: When did historical authors become detectives?

A relatively new subgenre of mystery fiction is mysteries which are solved by true historical figures.

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Related Topix: Vocal

Portsmouth Today

Fresh look to dashing Mr Darcy

Britain's most eligible bachelor is in Portsmouth - a dark, handsome man who owns half of Derbyshire.

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Related Topix: Vocal

Sun Jun 28, 2009

Hindustan Times

When Mona met Ali

It's a truth universally acknowledged that a beautiful, middle-aged widow with an independent fortune must be in need of a husband." How easily the opening line of Pride and Prejudice can be tweaked to fit Musharraf Ali Farooqi's The Story of A Widow! And I am not the only reader seeing the ghost of Austen here - Mohammad Hanif's slightly ...

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Related Topix: Vocal

Sat Jun 27, 2009

The Courier-Journal

'Smart Girls Like Me'

Would Elizabeth Bennet still win the heart of Mr. Darcy if Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' were written today? Or would a flashier chick-lit heroine like Bridget Jones steal him away instead? Chick lit and Jane Austen share more in common than perhaps fans of either would like to admit.

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Related Topix: Vocal, Wedding

Thu Jun 25, 2009

GalleyCat

Ruben Toledo Is (Re)Modeling the Classics

The good folks at Nylon passed along a link to an item on their website about a new set of Penguin Classics covers by fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo which, according to Rebecca Willa Davis , "certainly add a stylish edge to book club mainstays." In addition to Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter , Toledo also did illustrations for Jane ...

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Related Topix: Vocal

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Southern Accents

What books do you love?

One of the latest rounds of "tag" that has been going around the social networking sites asks friends to name 15 books they've read that will always stick with them.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Vocal

Sun Jun 21, 2009

TheCelebrityCafe

Northanger Abbey - by Jane Austen

Catherine Morland's life has not been the string of adventures typical of most heroines, but all that's about to change.

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Related Topix: Vocal

Birmingham News Online

Alabaster, Alabama theater presents Pride and Prejudice'

For The Birmingham News Alabaster's South City Theatre is not much to look at from the outside.

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Related Topix: Alabaster, AL, Theater, Arts, Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Metro, Vocal, Entertainment

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Bronte Blog

Emily Bronte getting drunk in Malibu

Tamasha's Wuthering Heights performances in Harrogate are reviewed by the Yorkshire Post : Wuthering Heights *** Following the success of Bride and Prejudice, loosely adapted from Jane Austen's novel, it was only a matter of time before one of the BrontA sisters was given the Bollywood treatment.

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Related Topix: Vocal, Bollywood

Financial Times

Dawn of the dead

By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Quirk Books A 8.99 320 pages FT Bookshop price: A 7.19 Patient Zero By Jonathan Maberry Gollancz A 9.99, 424 pages FT Bookshop price: A 7.99 World War Z By Max Brooks Duckworth A 8.99 352 pages FT Bookshop price: A 10.39 The Living Dead Edited by John Joseph Adams Night Shade Books $15.95 487 pages The ball at ...

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Related Topix: Vocal

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