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Anticipating the best part of the Super Bowl — the commercials

I have to admit I’m NOT a sports person. To me unless you’re actually playing the sport, or one of your close friends or relatives is in the game, then watching sports events is about as exciting as watching paint dry. There’s one exception — The Super Bowl — and that’s because of the commercials. […]

Miss Austen Regrets — PBS The Complete Jane Austen

Sunday, Feb 3rd saw the airing of Miss Austen Regrets as part of the Masterpiece Theater’s Complete Jane Austen series. This is one that I’ve never seen before in any media so I have nothing to compare or contrast it to. It’s based on the correspondence of Jane Austen and while I’ve had “read her […]

Mansfield Park – PBS’s The Complete Jane Austen

A bit late with this, but I did manage to see Sunday’s installment of The Complete Jane Austen — Mansfield Park. The previous version of Mansfield Park that I’d seen was directed by Patricia Rozema and starred Hannah Taylor-Gordon (DVD cover pictured to the left). While that one was indeed a nice movie, it didn’t […]