By: Billy DaMota CSA

Billy DaMota CSA — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:14:11 +0000

Just so sad that the casting department for that show is accepting a fee to meet actors in so-called "workshops", and using the name and the director to make dough on the side – all from actors' wallets.

By: squordian

squordian — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:14:11 +0000

I think Metropolitan is his best movie. Discuss.

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:14:11 +0000

A few years ago, the Morgan Library in NYC held a panel on the subject of Jane Austen (in tandem with their lovely Austen exhibit, which was framed around Lady Susan. The Lady Susan, penned in Austen's own hand was on display and two of the people on the panel were a mother and daughter (Jane and Caitlin) who had written a book called Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, adapted from Lady Susan. Austen was at the time and continues to be a draw and when first I heard of Mr Stillman's project I was excited. I have always thought that Lady Susan was an little diamond of a work and I loved the Lady Vernon book which I thought was one of the better Austen adaptations.
Now I am more confused than excited. In Jane Austen's earliest collection of short works, of which Lady Susan was the last before she began her first novels, was a tale called Love and Friendship. This is not Lady Susan but an entirely different work. Lady Susan itself was written when Jane Austen was 19, but not published until the 1870s. Also, it was not an unfinished work, but a complete short epistolary novel.
It may be more economically rational to take an advance for writing a book than to raise money for a film, but on the other side, a Lady Susan movie would be unique, whereas a Lady Susan book would seem something of a "bandwagon" move, just one more writer diving into the subgenre of Austeneseque work.

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