Is That A Trick Question?
From an article about the actress Rose McGowan:
While posing nearly naked for the current issue of Rolling Stone, her backside pressed against the buttocks of an equally bare Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan says she had a sobering thought: Who’d hire her for a demure role in a Jane Austen movie after seeing this?
Meanwhile, somewhere in England, Andrew Davies nearly breaks a leg running for the phone.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
LOL *snort*
April 6th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Tee hee…
April 6th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Haha! Too funny…
April 7th, 2007 at 7:45 am
That’s too funny ;).
April 7th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Somewhere out there in lit land, Mary Crawford is revising her “rears and vices” pun.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:12 am
*lol* Good one.
Seriously, though, Davies is not THAT bad. But I’ll admit, it’s a very fine line between value added Austen and polluting the shades of Pemberley through the means of fan fiction.
April 7th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Very good to all, specially agree with Hunsford
April 7th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
*snort*
Good one. And I do think he is *that bad*
Look what he did to poor, poor innocent, and sweet Catherine Morland. (Now I am not amused >:[
April 7th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
LMAO!!!
April 7th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Well, there’s always Lady Susan…
April 7th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Truth hurts.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:13 am
LOL! This really makes me laugh, but oh… poor Andrew Davies! I just have to defend him. He is one of the best screenwriters, if not THE best screenwriter to adapt classical literature, in my opinion. It makes his wanting to put nudity in every adaptation very easily forgiven. And honestly I don’t think there is that much nudity in his adaptations…
April 9th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I think people might go easier on him if there was a reason for adding so much skin. A lot of the time it takes away from the story, rather than adding to it. Other than his love of nudity, yes he is brilliant.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
You know, I’m not ready to give him either a blanket commendation or a blanket condemnation. I have very much enjoyed some of his adaptations, and others not so much, and to be honest the nudity is not the problem, it is a symptom of the problem, that he tends to “improve” what does not need improving. Case in point, the latest NA. Why was the Abbey a dark and forbidding place, when Jane Austen specifically wrote that it was the very opposite? Why was Mrs. Tilney’s room abandoned and cobwebbed when, again, it specifically was not so in the book? I’ll tell you why: because Andrew Davies thinks we’re too bloody stupid to follow the plot that Jane Austen wrote. I don’t like having my intelligence insulted, and I don’t like my Austen “improved.”
April 10th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Nor I. It is like spoiling good tea with sickly sweet splenda. The cobwebs were in Catherine’s head, and Tilney swept them away with his gentle reproof.
Don’t worry Rose, backsides should feature in a JA adapatation pretty soon…perhaps you can play Maria Bertram caught with her pants down with Henry Crawford.
April 11th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
He should to stick with his soft core victorian tipping the velvet!
For him its been down a steep hill,after p&p!.To bad it was a hill and not a clift!