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Drama Desk results

The Mystery of Edwin Drood won only one Drama Desk award -- for sound design -- and that was a three-way tie. Here's hoping for better things at the Tonys!

Maybe not such a great choice?

Thought Catalog has posted a list of "30 Quotes About Love, For People With Too Many Feelings." The good news is, they have a Dickens quote! The bad news is, they have this one . . .

How cashy can you get?

An 1867 reference to Dickens's "cashy, good-natured, shrewd English face" sent Anatoly Liberman at the Oxford University Press blog off on a hunt for the meaning and origin of the word cashy. Thanks to The Buzfuz for the link!

One question for Dickens

I got this question as part of a LiveJournal meme recently:

If you could see Charles Dickens face-to-face and ask him one question about anything, what would you choose?

My answer:

First edition of 'A Christmas Carol' up for auction

. . . as part of a very nice collection. Thanks to The Buzfuz for the tip.

Is 'Iron Man 3' a Dickensian movie?

Slate's Forrest Wickman makes a convincing case that the blockbuster movie is inspired by A Christmas Carol -- having previously shown just how much The Dark Knight Rises was inspired by A Tale of Two Cities. I like the way this man thinks.

(In related news, thanks to Christy for sending along another piece that traces the Dickens-Dark Knight connection.)

Casting news for the Bollywood 'Great Expectations'

Sushant Singh Rajput is set to star. The rest of the cast should be announced soon.

'Dickensian' drama on BBC One

BBC One has comissioned a new drama series called Dickensian, in which "characters from the author's novels cross paths in 'the most surprising of ways'." (More info here.) Seems to me we already did that -- let's hope they do as good a job as we did, eh? ;-) In all seriousness, I'm envisioning a Dickens-themed sort of Once Upon a Time, which should be pretty interesting! Longtime BBC writer Tony Jordan will be doing the writing.

Update: The Hollywood Reporter has a few more details.

Household words

I'm afraid I've had to set up comment moderation, at least for the time being. The spam has been out of control lately, and until TypePad figures out a way to fix their filter, this is the only way I know how to deal with it.

On playing Dickens's bad guys

In this interview, actor Robert Powell talks about his one-man show Dickens' Villains.