Alert Fangirl Carmen also sent us a link to the P&P3 poster.

Alert Janeite Carmen sends us word that a Region 2 version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2003 (also known in the online fandom as P&P Utah) has been released. Carmen has details on her Web page (in Spanish) and also sent a link where the film can be ordered. The film on that page has audio tracks in English and Spanish.

Carrie Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer, reviewing the film WEDDING CRASHERS, uses a Jane Austen allusion:

Although Crashers broadly satirizes the modern matrimonial-industrial complex, moresubtly it plays with the conventions of the man-trap movie. That’s the one in which female friends (one usually a pragmatist, the other a romantic) cast their lines and reel in husbands. (It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen invented the genre.)

Ah, if it were only that easy.

(Thanks to a certain Janeite Spy for the original tipoff on this one!)

Van Gower and Steve Weinstein, reviewing HAPPY ENDINGS for the New York Blade, get the “Well Said” award du jour:

By the time the young couple leaves to return to the city, all four lives have changed irreparably. Young limns these changes with the same fine brush strokes with which Jane Austen once famously described her writing: on a “piece of ivory, two inches wide.”

Like Austen, Young knows that less is more. Four characters can define the world.

Yep.

From the Department of Just Plain Weird Austen Allusions, Dave Eggers gives a talk and mentions bears that hate Jane Austen.

Eggers still seems a bit lost, squinting from the podium in the wind-wracked marquee. “Man, that is amazing,” he says in awe when a particularly violent gust seizes the canvas. But the eyes, shrewd and narrow beneath an electric shock of wavy dark hair, are those of someone in full control of the virtual circus he creates as he speaks: a ring of weird images that will include, by the end of the hour, the boxing promoter Don King, President Bush as a double amputee, bears that hate Jane Austen and a State Department official who “looked about 12″.

An interactive storytelling event took place at Chawton House Library using the latest of modern technology.

Teachers left instructions which flashed up on the PDAs at various places in the grounds of the house, such as the walled garden or on the main drive up to the house, to record a dialogue between two people arriving at the house for the first time. The pupils could also play audio clips describing parts of the grounds and record all of their own annotations. All of this information could be replayed in the classroom at a later date.

We like to think the children were inspired by leftover Austen-vibes. Chawton must be an amazing (or possibly really intimidating!) place to write.

(We have emerged from our Potter-stupor. For how long, who can tell. Also there seems to be a thunderstorm brewing at AustenBlog World Headquarters. Lots of news to report, though.)