It looks like U.K. Janeites will have a Pride and Prejudice-full September this year!
Paul from KeiraWeb.com sent us the date of the broadcast of the tenth anniversary documentary about P&P2. It will be shown on September 13th at 10:35 p.m. on BBC1.
Paul from KeiraWeb.com wrote to tell us that Richard Brooks wrote a small article in yesterday’s Sunday Times about P&P3. The article mentioned screenwriter Deborah Moggach’s cancelled cameo, about which we posted (and snarked) previously.
Some disappointment, though, for its screenwriter, Deborah Moggach, who is best known for novels such as Tulip Fever and various television dramas. Moggach wrote herself a little cameo as a wench in a pub. Typecasting? Of course not.
Then the movie-makers brought in Emma Thompson to give the script a tiny bit of polishing, presumably on the grounds that she had won an Oscar for her screenplay of Sense and Sensibility. Thompson decided the pub scene should be dropped. So Moggach’s little moment of screen fame had gone.
A wench in a pub, eh? So not a fine lady discreetly enjoying a glass of wine in a genteel establishment, then? We shall spare our readership our triumphant expressions of smug superiority, and like Henry Tilney, bid you use your own fancy to imagine them. 
The article also mentioned that two different endings have been tested in preview screenings of the film–which is, after all, what preview screenings are for. (The following might be considered a spoiler for the film, so don’t click if you don’t want to know. But haven’t we all read the book? Of course we have.) (more…)
DVD Talk has a review of the newly-released Whatever! edition of CLUELESS. The reviewer admits that the film has aged somewhat, as must be expected with a film that depends so heavily on pop culture references.
Truthfully, one could make a killer drinking game by picking out the dated refences (cell phones with extendable antennae, pagers, backwards baseball caps, etc…), but the ideas that changing others isn’t a path to happiness and that being true to yourself is a good thing are timeless. After all, they made the trip from Austen’s pen to Silverstone’s mouth without much wear.
There’s a good rundown of the extras, most of which were not included in the original DVD of the film and definitely make it worth the investment for fans.
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