AUSTEN'S 'PRIDE' BURSTING ON A&E.Byline: Orange County Register Fitzwilliam Darcy is rich, handsome and horribly haughty haugh·ty adj. haugh·ti·er, haugh·ti·est Scornfully and condescendingly proud. See Synonyms at proud. [From Middle English haut, from Old French haut, halt . Lizzie Bennet is church-mouse poor, porcelain pretty and outrageously opinionated o·pin·ion·at·ed adj. Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions. [Probably from obsolete opinionate : opinion + -ate1. . He wants her. She won't have him. Together they're gasoline and matches. And when their hormones explode they turn the A&E miniseries "Pride and Prejudice," starting tonight, into the fiercest romantic firestorm since Rhett Butler didn't give a damn Verb 1. give a damn - show no concern or interest; always used in the negative; "I don't give a hoot"; "She doesn't give a damn about her job" care a hang, give a hang, give a hoot about Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind." "It's such a compulsive love story," English actress Jennifer Ehle said recently of "Pride and Prejudice" - both the six-hour A&E/BBC co-production in which she plays Lizzie and the serio-comic Jane Austen novel of 19th-century English courtship on which the miniseries is based. The brightest star created by "Pride and Prejudice" is its author, 19th century babe Jane Austen (1775-1817), already one of the hippest women of Anglo-American pop culture since the film adaptations of her novels "Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen, that was first published in 1811. It was the first of Austen's novels to be published, under the pseudonym "A Lady". " and "Persuasion" became sleeper hits. (A third film, the ultra-contemporary "Clueless clue·less adj. Lacking understanding or knowledge. clueless Adjective Slang helpless or stupid Adj. 1. ," was loosely based on Austen's "Emma.") "She's a genius - so sparkling and modern," "Pride and Prejudice" producer Sue Birtwistle said of Not-So-Plain Jane. " 'Pride and Prejudice' is a wonderful social commentary that poses all kinds of questions about how you want to live your life. |
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