Good Girls Don’t
(During the Editrix’s senior year at her Select Young Ladies’ Seminary, being a cheeky article, she often went around singing that song. The link is the Bowdlerized version of the song, though not the greatest video. Back when the Editrix was young and dinosaurs roamed the earth, we didn’t have any of that newfangled MTV.)
Time attempts to point out that not all the young ladies in Hollywood are being hauled off to jail screaming for their mommies and photographed sans their smallclothes, and holds up Anne Hathaway as a shining example.
New projects: She plays Jane Austen in the August biopic of the novelist Becoming Jane. “Anne came back from her day off and she announced that she had just reread Mansfield Park,” says Jarrolds.
In one day? Oh, give her the Fanny Price Memorial Gold Star Award, then.
June 18th, 2007 at 3:08 am
MP in one day? Well, Keira Knighley can do “War and Peace” in half that time, and rumour has it that it only takes Kate Winslet twenty minutes to do all of Shakespeare. Bring it, Anne Hathaway!
That said, it could be worse. At least someone respectable is playing Jane. It could be Paris Hilton.
June 18th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Actually, that’s not too amazing…if I ever had a day to spare, I could do that. I often read NA and P&P in two days at the most.
June 18th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Only Mansfield Park? I could read Mansfield Park AND Persuasion if I set my mind to it
Say what you might, I still defend Anne Hathaway - at least she is well-mannered and wears clothes which is more than can be said of most young Hollywood today.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
The article that appears in the print version of Time, June 25, 2007, page 63 states…
“… Emma (Roberts) is so poised, so persuasively genuine, she could be a Jane Austen heroine.” http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1623143_1632988_1632951,00.html
Hurray! The world needs more JA heroines, fewer Paris Hiltons.
June 19th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Although Paris Hilton couldn’t play anything right now, what with that whole being in jail thing.
June 19th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Interestingly, there was a big news article in The Australian yesterday about her not-so-good activities. See this link: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,21921116-10388,00.html
Hopefully she isn’t implicated by the misdeeds of her boyfriend, but she better get her lawyers and accountants sorting out her side of things separate from his.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Ah, but with all the extra time on her hands now, Paris could be catching up on her reading. Bet she’ll whip through ALL of Jane Austen AND Shakespeare. She’d make a great Caroline Bingley in the next adaptation.
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:04 pm
LOL Deb R!
If Paris was Caroline Bingley, who could we pick for Jane Bennet?Anne Hathaway, undoubtedly. Lindsay Lohan for Lydia, of course. They could even write their own scripts…
June 26th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Anne Hathaway and Becoming Jane nonwithstanding, I’d love to see celebrity book wars become a part of the gossip news. Imagine the tussles we’d see. Paris Hilton would totally get into Mark Twain; Nicole Richie would absorb Northanger Abbey and we’ve have Lit Wars. It’s better than the endless droning about who’s dating who’s ex-boyfriend/girlfriend.