Wednesday, February 01, 2006

A Couple of Classics

Classic books on the big and small screen:

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
This "unfilmable novel" has been made into a soon to be released movie under the title A Cock and Bull Story.




Bleak House by Charles Dickens
A Masterpiece Theatre rendition of Bleak House is now showing on PBS, starring Gillian Anderson.

5 comments:

Jackie Parker said...

I didn't realize that A Cock and Bull Story was a book...good to know.

Anonymous said...

I'm cataloging (okay, copy-cataloging) the pictured edition of TS as we speak! Regarding the phrase "a cock and bull story," the last line of the Notes on the last page of the book is: "That Sterne ends TS with a bawdy revivification of a proverbial expression is particularly characteristic." Bawdy revivification. What an AWESOME pairing of words.

Anonymous said...

Gillian Anderson went to City High School in GR, Michigan. Maybe everyone knew that...

MichelleB @ Alpine

Anonymous said...

I always thought she went to EGR High?

Jackie Parker said...

No, Michelle is right, it was City.