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During Mitzi Szereto's recent appearance at the Wordplay book festival in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, she took a bit of time out to talk with the team from the "Sideways" programme about writing erotic fiction, books, blogging, and anything else suitable for broadcast!
http://mitziszereto.com/blog/mitzi-szereto-chats-on-bbc-radio-shetland/During Mitzi Szereto's recent appearance at the Wordplay book festival in the... more
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Author Mitzi Szereto brings you the entire cast of characters from Jane Austen's classic "Pride and Prejudice", this time caught with their breeches unbuttoned and their skirts raised high in this rewrite that goes all the way -- and then some! This is the book Jane Austen would have written, if only she'd had the nerve!
Coming in spring 2011. Pre-order your copy from your favourite bookseller!
Visit the "Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts" website at: http://mitziszereto.com/prideandprejudicehiddenlusts/Author Mitzi Szereto brings you the entire cast of characters from Jane Austen's... more
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Author, blogger and Mitzi TV creator/presenter Mitzi Szereto and her famous sidekick bear Teddy Tedaloo embark upon a surreal Christmas outing in London, replete with babushkas, beer, and a missing glove.Author, blogger and Mitzi TV creator/presenter Mitzi Szereto and her famous sidekick... more
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice while a fictional love story was also a realistic accounting of a woman's life during this time. Raised in the arts of drawing, dancing, piano playing and keeping house, a woman's aspirations were not encouraged beyond this, and her life was dependent on the man she eventually had picked for her to marry. In the case of Elizabeth Bennett however, she was not only brazenly independent but strong willed. She was actually the more liberated of all the Bennett sisters, even though it was thought that to marry was your ticket to freedom. The characters in this story are well defined and you truly get a sense by the end of the story that you lived their experiences along with them. As for the love story between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, well, we should all be so lucky to find such a love in our lives.Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice while a fictional love story was also a... more
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Video Preview of the FPAC presentation of "Pride & Prejudice"
http://www.fairmountcenter.org
Produced By Geoff Short
http://www.geoffreyshort.com
CORRECTION: The actor credited as Ryan Stafford is actually Amnon Carmi as "George Wickham"
Pride & Prejudice at Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory (FPAC)
August 12-15, 2010
440-782-4087
original adaptation by James Maxwell
revised by Alan Stanford
Novel by Jane Austen
Director - Mitchell B. Fields
Set & Lighting Design -- Ben Needham
Costume Design - Craig Tucker
Sound Design - Carlton Guc
Stage Manager -- Mandalyn Stevens
Assistant Stage Manager - Kayla Spira
Assistant Director - Anthony Ritosa
All productions are performed at Mayfield Village Civic Center,
6622 Wilson Mills Road, Mayfield Village (just off the I-271 / Wilson Mills exit)Video Preview of the FPAC presentation of "Pride & Prejudice"... more
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Actress Natalie Portman is set to star in the film version of the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
The booked is based on the original Jane Austen book, but with a subplot of a zombie uprising. The Bennett sisters are all martial arts experts in the new version.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8407986.stmActress Natalie Portman is set to star in the film version of the book Pride and... more
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Who knew a book could be sexy, fashionable and stylish.....and also be 200 years old!
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"What is this inescapable desire we have to mess around with Jane Austen? The poor woman has been through the mill of late, with the literary world seeing Elizabeth Bennet contending with the undead in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and the Dashwoods about to take on tentacled sea creatures in Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Meanwhile, onscreen, Elton John's Rocket Pictures is working on Pride and Predator.
So far be it for theatre to miss out. Fresh from a run on the Edinburgh fringe, Jane Austen's Guide to Pornography arrived at Battersea's Theatre 503 last week with an all-male cast and not a little innuendo. Steve Dawson's piece pitches a gay pornographic playwright, tired of only churning out one-liners and sex, up against Austen herself, who is near death, bored with her stories and "awaking screaming at the thought of another Mr Darcy". The pair look for inspiration from each other: Jane wants a bit of raunch in her new novel, Brett the playwright wants to inject true love into his writing.
There are some predictably nudge-nudge elements – ooh, let's make Jane Austen say "enormous cock", that'll be hilarious – but it actually works pretty well, particularly when Jane and Brett are squabbling over storyline ideas. It's silly, but it's also funny: "No one has ever fainted in my novels except for Emma, and that was the only one and not because she met this 'Dick' person," Jane tells Brett firmly. The burgeoning romance between the two actors/characters dreamt up by Jane and Brett is sweetly believable, ending with a clever twist on the "Marianne sprains her ankle" scene from Sense and Sensibility. Perhaps the mention of felching – "it sounds frightfully Mediterranean," says Jane – will get the Jane Austen Society up in arms, but the play is actually a very affectionate portrait of the author, so I hope not.
It does make me wonder, though, about this trend to sex up Austen. Someone has even written a book of "deleted sex scenes". Perhaps it's the buttoned-up nature of her characters – the closest we get to a bit of frolicking in Austen is probably Mr Knightley drawing Emma's hand through his arm. Maybe it's just immature and deliberately provocative, but I think our appetite for postmodern character cutting and pasting comes down to the genius of good writers. In Austen's case, we love her characters, we believe in their romances: we want to know – and see – more.""What is this inescapable desire we have to mess around with Jane Austen? The... more
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t had to happen. Following the success of Quirk Book’s bestselling transformation of Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice into, well, a zombie novel, Del Rey Books announced plans to turn Pride and Prejudice and Zombies into a graphic novel. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel will be published in 2010.t had to happen. Following the success of Quirk Book’s bestselling... more
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A story of love, but not any ordinary love. A love that surpasses all Earthly notions and restrictions surrounding that day. To me, this story by Jane Austin epitomizes true love and eroticism that gives one hope that there is more to love than the physical. And in erotic/love poems I look for that transcending bond that melds the physical with sexual spirituality because I do not believe a relationship is truly complete without it. In Pride and Prejudice, we see that sexual tension/love played on flm beautifully, and they didn't even have to take their clothes off.A story of love, but not any ordinary love. A love that surpasses all Earthly notions... more
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"Seth Grahame-Smith's first venture into fiction, 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' is a version of Jane Austen's classic that injects zombie warfare into the quiet lives of the Bennet sisters. Released by tiny US publisher Quirk Books, it has proved an unexpected success, hitting the New York Times bestseller charts and already making waves in the UK where it was published last week.
Now Grand Central, part of the publishing conglomerate Hachette, has pounced on Grahame-Smith, signing him up for a two-book deal reported to be worth more than half-a-million dollars.
The first book will be 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,' "a presidential biography in the vein of a Doris Kearns Goodwin or David McCullough, but repositioning the president as the greatest vampire hunter to walk the earth". Unlike Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, there is no source material, so the novel will be all original writing. "But rather than just toss vampires in wherever he feels, Seth is doing a lot of research to see where they could fit in properly to the actual events of Lincoln's life – from childhood on," said editor Ben Greenberg. Grahame-Smith's next book is as yet undetermined, but will also be fiction.""Seth Grahame-Smith's first venture into fiction, 'Pride and Prejudice... more
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"It is a truth commercially acknowledged that Jane Austen’s high-spirited heroines can be recast as Hollywood brats or Bollywood sirens, wittily navigating the eternal perils of class, romance and unworthy men.
Few challenges, however, are as unusual as the latest foe facing Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice – a plague of the undead sent to reduce the picturesque villages of Longbourn and Meryton to smouldering ruins.
Hollywood studios are bidding to turn a radical reworking of Austen’s most popular book, now called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a parody to be published in April, into a blockbuster movie.""It is a truth commercially acknowledged that Jane Austen’s high-spirited... more
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Umm... one (presumably) die-hard Colin Firth fan has forked out 12 grand for a painting of him in his most luscious role to date; Mr Darcy.
The "portrait" painting featured in the BBC's adaptation of Jane Austen's famous novel.
I became a Firth fan when he emerged dripping from that pond too, but it's a little much to spend on a TV prop isn't it?Umm... one (presumably) die-hard Colin Firth fan has forked out 12 grand for a... more
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Denise and Stuart Vaughan had a Pride and Prejudice themed wedding, complete with full period costumes.Denise and Stuart Vaughan had a Pride and Prejudice themed wedding, complete with full... more
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A painting of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy which was used as a prop in the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice is for sale.
The portrait is expected to raise £7,000 at auction.A painting of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy which was used as a prop in the BBC production... more
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