Friends of Northstar 4

[Merlose]

Originally Posted by TNovak

porn stars?

Ummm he just said he didn't want to work today.

[JonoJ108]

i don't think porn stars actually make very good money. too many go back to hair-dressing or real estate for it to be long-term rewarding.

[superdoug]

Morning Jono! Morning, Merl!

[superdoug]

All by myself this morning. Nice.

I guess I'll go and look for some lyrics to put up until people get here and start being somewhat chatty.

[JonoJ108]

Originally Posted by superdoug

All by myself this morning. Nice.

I guess I'll go and look for some lyrics to put up until people get here and start being somewhat chatty.

don't threaten us! go read another 10 books! realize just how wrong you are on Persuasion being boring. it's one of the most romantic stories in all of english literature & a real dream-come-true.

[superdoug]

I...haven't said anything about Persuasion? I said that people had told me Mansfield Park was boring, but I know next to nothing about Persuasion, so I have no pre-conceived notions on it. :tounge:

But, I have been enjoying Sense & Sensibility. Austen's disdain for the members of her social class is so very evident in her writing.

[malkii]

simmer down now boys simmer down...

[bat_collector]

I agree with Jono, such a great story to tell and written in a interesting format. I loved reading it the second time. And there is a pretty good movie (from the 90's) on it and a recent miniseries on it, too.

Emma is definately the template they used to make clueless, doug, there is no alleged there. And have you never seen the Gwenth Paltrow version of Emma?

As far as Mansfield Park and the (uninteresting) Fanny Price, I don't know how much I'd have to be paid to read it again.

[bat_collector]

Originally Posted by TNovak

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I got a good deal.

[JonoJ108]

Originally Posted by bat_collector

I agree with Jono, such a great story to tell and written in a interesting format. I loved reading it the second time. And there is a pretty good movie (from the 90's) on it and a recent miniseries on it, too.

Emma is definately the template they used to make clueless, doug, there is no alleged there. And have you never seen the Gwenth Paltrow version of Emma?

As far as Mansfield Park and the (uninteresting) Fanny Price, I don't know how much I'd have to be paid to read it again.

i wasn't yelling, Doug. the S&S movie is fantastic. i love Harriet Walter as Hugh Grant's sister--"He has his own barouche!"

I could watch the 1995 indie movie of Persuasion, starring Amanda Root as Anne Elliott & Ciaran Hinds(!) as Captain Wentworth, every single day. Impossible to recommend it highly enough to literary-minded romantics.

Gwyneth's Emma movie makes my head hurt. try to find the BBC miniseries w/ Kate Beckinsale as Emma--before she started doing crap action/supernatural movies, she was an actress. & i second Mike: Amy Heckerling directly adapted Emma into Clueless, inaugurating that decade-long love affair btw Austen & Hollywood.

Mansfield Park is really boring, i will concede. it's odd that the character that in any other Austen book--Mary Crawford--would be the admired, spunky, iconoclastic heroine, here she's Fanny's nemesis. & the hero's totally not worth all the fuss.