Emma Thompson's Big News

Sorry to be behind on the posting, all! I had a full weekend of company - yay, Beth! - and am going to have to try to post tonight after work and a late writers' meeting. The busy life of The Player (as in "I work hard to play...").

In the meantime, be comforted with this: Emma Thompson gave Tavis Smiley, a local L.A. interviewer, a little scoop while she was in town for the Golden Globes. She's working on a new script adaptation of "My Fair Lady" for Universal. She says it's "very theatrical" and has been researching George Bernard Shaw's writings, esp his letters, extensively, trying to write in a lot of his real-life attitude toward women. She says he was quite like Prof. Higgins in his own life. Since she's still writing it, it prob won't see the light of production lights for another two years.

While you're waiting, go see "Last Chance Harvey." I can't wait - going this week - and am SO looking forward to what she calls a "subtle, funny adult romance" - i.e. a movie with a brain. And based on the electricity she and Dustin Hoffman produced in their scenes in "Stranger Than Fiction," it should be brilliant! (If you can't get out to theaters, rent 'STF' - amazing!)