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Austen Powers: make Jane Sexy

POOR Mr. Knightley, thought to have been - on scant evidence - pretty bad in the sack. "Where's the heat between Emma and Mr. Knightley?" a young woman asks in the new film "The Jane Austen Book Club," and she's not the first to wonder what the heroine of "Emma" might expect after marrying an older, oh-so-dignified man. The narrator of Margaret Drabble's 1969 novel "The Waterfall" was more eloquent and pointed: "What can it have been like, in bed with Mr. Knightley? Sorrow awaited that woman."
That narrator was also ahead of her time. [...]

di Caryn James, articolo completo (11218 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Vanity Fair 29 Luglio 2007