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Benedict Cumberbatch interview: On the couch with Mr Cumberbatch
As the Sherlock star prepares to play a dapper 70s spook in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Benedict Cumberbatch tells Emma John about the joys of kitesurfing, being single and punching Tom Hardy – while presenting the sharpest looks from the coming season.
For the complete article, visit The Guardian at http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/sep/04/benedict-cumberbatch-ford-madox-ford.

Hundreds of Jane Austen fans turned heads at the weekend as they walked through the streets of Bath dressed in Regency costume.

The walk, which began in Abbey Church Yard, was part of the city’s Jane Austen Festival.

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The event, which is in its 11th year, runs until Saturday and attracts enthusiasts from all over the world, including the USA, Australia and Japan to take part in the ten-day celebration of the author’s work.

The promenade is the best-known part of the festival and as well as characters from the Regency novels, there were also people dressed as naval officers, musicians and soldiers.

For the complete story, visit the article on This is Bath. http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Dress-far-plain-Jane-Bath/story-13359246-detail/story.html

Check out the link below for episode one of the Emmy winning Downtown Abbey.
http://video.pbs.org/video/1724131531?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=channel&utm_campaign=pbs

I openly admit that I have stolen this post from my dear friend, Abigail Reynolds. One may see the whole post at http://austenauthors.net.

Today marks the debut of the Pride & Prejudice 200th anniversary project at Austen Authors. No, it’s not the anniversary of the publication of Pride & Prejudice – we have to wait until 2113 for that. P&P200 is something else entirely. It’s a real-time celebration of the 200th anniversary of the events in Pride & Prejudice. What, you hadn’t realized that 200 years ago today, Mr. Bingley was viewing Netherfield Park with an eye toward letting it? Or that November 26 will be the 200th anniversary of the Netherfield Ball?

Over the next 16 months, various Austen Authors will be taking a new look at the events of Pride & Prejudice. Sometimes it may be a scene that isn’t shown in the original, like Lady Catherine advising Mr. Collins to find a wife; sometimes it’ll be an existing scene through the eyes of a different character, like the Meryton Assembly from Louisa Hurst’s point of view. Sometimes you’ll even get multiple points of view for the same event! We’ll be presenting everything from brief glimpses to full scenes and short stories; some authors will stick with one character throughout the story while others will jump around. Many different authors are involved, so the scenes may not always be consistent with one another, but they’ll always be consistent with Pride & Prejudice.

We’ll be posting the scenes here at Austen Authors as they occur. When an event in P&P doesn’t have a specific date, we’ll post on Sundays if possible, but any day of the week could be a P&P200 day at Austen Authors. On days other than Sunday, P&P200 posts will follow the main daily post. At the end of each month, we’ll gather all the P&P200 bits and post them together in The Writer’s Block.

Today at Austen Authors check out Bingley’s first views of Netherfield Park. Heather Rigaud and Abigail Reynolds offer two different points of view.

The Venice Film Festival brings us David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Mind. It is the story of the unusual relationship between Sigmund Freud (played by Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). Jung is treating Sabina Spielrein, portrayed Keira Knightley.
The UK’s The Telegraph says, “The future and well being of Sabina Spielrein, a troubled young Russian woman played by Keira Knightley, becomes the defining issue between the two men. Aged 18, she arrives at a Zurich hospital to be treated by Jung. She’s in a distressing state, flinching from human contact and contorting her body and face in grotesque gestures of pain and terror.

Cronenberg has coaxed a performance from Knightley so ferocious in these early scenes that it seems likely to become the film’s main talking point. It’s also a risky strategy, as Sabina’s behaviour is extreme to the point of being alienating.”

For the complete article, visit http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/8737413/Venice-Film-Festival-2011-A-Dangerous-Method-review.html.

If you haven’t seen this movie trailer, you really MUST watch it. Besides the fact that Matthew Macfadyen narrates it, the preview is loaded with action scenes. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20483133_20525975,00.html
The Three Musketeers
Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan are one for all and all for one-ing again in this steampunk-style take on Alexandre Dumas’ classic
Sep 13, 2011

Paul W.S. Anderson’s action-fueled, steampunk-influenced interpretation of the Alexandre Dumas’ famous novel features an all-star cast including Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom, and Milla Jovovich. Lerman’s D’Artagnan teams up with the title swashbucklers Athos, Porthos and Aramis to squash corruption in a flurry of fantastical airships, colossal explosions, and deadly contraptions. (This promo comes from Entertainment Weekly).

For the complete article visit, Oh, No They Didn’t at http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/59864056.html
These are the screen relationships that will make up one big happy (or rather not-so happy) family in the film version of Anna Karenina that will shoot in Britain and Russia starting this month .
Keira Knightley as Anna
Jude Law as her husband
Matthew Macfadyen as her brother, Oblonsky
Kelly Macdonald as Matthew’s wife
Domhnall Gleeson as Levin
Aaron Johnson as Vronsky
Saoirse Ronan as Kelly’s sister
Olivia Williams as Countess Vronskaya
Joe Wright is seeking children for the roles of the Oblonskys’ brood of five children and for Anna’s son in his new film Anna Karenina. Matthew Macfadyen and Kelly Macdonald (of Boardwalk Empire) will portray the Oblonskys, who have five children in the story, while Keira Knightley plays Matthew’s sister Anna, who has a son.

World Book Night surveyed readers. This is the result of 6000 voters. To participate in a revolving list (continually updated), please see http://www.worldbooknight.org/your-books/the-wbn-interactive-top-100-books
or to learn more about the UK’s World Book Night in April 2012, go to http://www.worldbooknight.org/

The 2012 Long List – ordered by number of votes:

1 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
2 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
3 The Book Thief Markus Zusak
4 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
5 The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
6 The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
7 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
8 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
9 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
10 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
11 American Gods Neil Gaiman
12 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
13 Harry Potter Adult Hardback Boxed Set J. K. Rowling
14 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
15 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
16 One Day David Nicholls
17 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18 The Help Kathryn Stockett
19 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
20 Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
21 The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
22 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
23 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
24 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
25 Little Women Louisa M. Alcott
26 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
27 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
28 Atonement Ian McEwan
29 Room Emma Donoghue
30 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
31 We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver
32 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
33 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
34 The Island Victoria Hislop
35 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman
36 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
37 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
38 Chocolat Joanne Harris
39 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
40 The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
41 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
42 Animal Farm George Orwell
43 The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
44 The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
45 Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
46 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
47 I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
48 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
49 Life of Pi Yann Martel
50 The Road Cormac McCarthy
51 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
52 Dracula Bram Stoker
53 The Secret History Donna Tartt
54 Small Island Andrea Levy
55 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
56 Lord of the Flies William Golding
57 Persuasion Jane Austen
58 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
59 Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson
60 Watership Down Richard Adams
61 Night Watch Terry Pratchett
62 Brave New World Aldous Huxley
63 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
64 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke
65 The Color Purple Alice Walker
66 My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
67 The Stand Stephen King
68 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
69 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
70 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
71 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
72 Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
73 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer
74 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
75 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
76 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman
77 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
78 The Princess Bride William Goldman
79 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
80 Perfume Patrick Suskind
81 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
82 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
83 Middlemarch George Eliot
84 Dune Frank Herbert
85 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
86 Stardust Neil Gaiman
87 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
88 Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
89 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone J. K. Rowling
90 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts
91 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
92 Possession: A Romance A. S. Byatt
93 Tales of the City Armistead Maupin
94 Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
95 The Magus John Fowles
96 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne
97 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
98 Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
99 Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
100 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami

For the complete article, visit http://www.worldbooknight.org/your-books/the-wbn-top-100-books

Trollope to rework Austen in new HC series
13.09.11 | Graeme Neill
Joanna Trollope is to write a contemporary reworking of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility as part of a new series to be published by HarperFiction.

For the complete article, see http://www.thebookseller.com/news/trollope-rework-austen-new-hc-series.html