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Portman Muscles In On Knightley's Period-Piece Turf

Sometimes it isn't just the starlets who get stuck with the stereotypical parts in films. Serious Actresses can get stuck with stupid shit too, especially since most aren't getting lead roles anytime soon! In the latest round-up of new castings in Hollywood, Natalie Portman sets her sights on an adaptation of Wuthering Heights and Marcia Gay Harden is set to star in a sure-to-be-cancelled new drama series on CBS about journalists who help save the world. Also in the mix, two well-known Spanish actresses lower themselves to supporting roles in American films, but the good news is they are probably getting paid more than they did in any starring role in their Spanish films. More on the latest hookers, victims and doormats in Hollywood, after the jump. More »

1:30 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By maria
3,892 views, 71 comments

Latest by Rummy_McGin: ack. no.sorry to be a persnikety english lit student, but are you kidding me? natalie portman? NO WAY is she catherine earnshaw. no way. more »

A first edition copy of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights sold for $236,255 in auction in London today. The unnamed buyer is apparently a career Bronte collector. Which gives us reason to believe that the buyer was not our ex-boyfriend, who still owes us a birthday present. [Guardian]

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it's a sickness

We Hate It When A Boy Breaks Up With Us & We Die Of Consumption

A few years ago we were really really sick. Everything's all cool now, but to make us feel better, a friend of ours told us that we were a Jane Austen heroine and that we merely had a case of consumption as a result of broken heart. It was fun to practice a consumptive cough and fan ourselves. But we got to thinking, how is it that all these Austen heroines and the like would die out of the blue in these novels, seemingly over nothing more than some boy being all douchey and making them sorta sad? Boys have made us sad, but we're not dead yet! Recently the good folks over at the BBC brought in a team of physicians to evaluate the ills of 19th century literary heroines. Their reports, after the jump. More »

7:00 PM on Fri Oct 26 2007
By Jennifer
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Latest by a_m_m_b_d: 6 a's, 3 c's & a b so Elinor I must be :) @ceejeemcbeegee: rather the same response I had (& still do) to Samwise while reading LOTR. Thank god he was lightened up in the movies! Alan Rickman - yummy indeed (drool) more »