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Well the contest has been up for a week and no one has entered. So I have this gift to give away and no one to give it to. Sad.

I read that the BBC is making a new Emma. I love the Gwenyth Paltrow Jeremy Northam version. I think it's perfect. But I'm intrigued by the casting. Romola Garai as Emma. Jodhi May as Miss Taylor. Johnny Lee Miller as Mr. Knightley. Michael Gambon as Mr. Woodhouse. Romola and Jodhi were in Daneil Deronda together and both were vying for the attentions of Mr. Deronda. So I'm intrigued. Plus Johnny Lee Miller has already been an Austen hero. He played Edmund in the 1990s version of Mansfield Park. He was also in the 1980s version when he was a child. He played one of Fanny's little brothers.

Some of my friends think Jane Austen has been done to death, but I like to see the different versions. Each one offers something new. Some new twist.

I would like to see a new version of The Great Gatsby, but it never lives up to the book. I will say the ballet done in Pittsburgh was beautiful and it lived up to the book.

We'll wait and see what else will happen in Jane Austen casting.

An E-mail I Just Received

I just received this e-mail:

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Too funny! They think I'm alive!!!

I Repeat! A Pride & Prejudice Contest

And yes! There is a prize!!

So first off, Dan I'm breaking the rules. I'm making more than five posts this week. However since I have already completed 28 posts I feel this will be okay. I am not trying to make up any I am trying to listen to your lectures by only asking my readers to identify 7 quotations a day (Okay, so I'm using the long bit on the whole 5 +/- 2 memory scale).

Here's how the contest works:
You must identify 49 quotations from 7 Pride & Prejudice movies.
E-mail me you answers at mrdarcyatpemberley@gmail.com (And yes, that really is my e-mail address....obsess much Jane?)
There will be a bonus question.
Only one person will win.
The person with the most correct answers wins.
You will win a copy of the book "The Making of Pride & Prejudice" if you have this I will send you another Jane Austen prize!
I will post 7 quotations at once. E-mail me the seven and then continue as such. You must identify the movie and the year it was made. If you really want to impress me tell me who said it, but that won't count toward the prize. It will definitely count to your own Jane Austen and P & P pride.!

Here are you movie choices:

Pride & Prejudice starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier (1940)
Pride & Prejudice starring David Rintoul and Elizabeth Garvie (1980)
Pride & Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle (1995)
Bridget Jones's Diary starring Colin Firth and Renee Zellweger (2001)
Pride and Prejudice starring Kam Heskin and Orlando Seale (2003)
Bride and Prejudice starring Aishwarya Rai and Martin Henderson (2004)
Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightly and Matthew MacFayden (2005)

Bonus Question

1. In what version or adaptation does Mr. Darcy lose his pants?

Seventh Set of Seven Quotations

1. "Perhaps we're very lucky we didn't drown any of them at birth, my dear."

2. "You should be stirring your husband's dinner, not trouble."

3. "Let us not say fairwell, but as the French have it au revoir!"

4. "As much as I love being insulted by you; I think you'd be much happier at a table for one."

5. "Lizzy don't sit there. Your nose will peel and your cheeks will burn and Mr .Wickham will not like that."

6. "Though she may well perish with the shame of having such a mother."

7. "Off they run. Weeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sixth Set of Seven Quotations

1. "I am most seriously displeased."

2. "I find mountains to be very dull. They lack refinement."

3. "I guess your guitar playing can't really compare to your sister's snake dance."

4. "Tricky. Very tricky."

5. "Oh if you want to be really dignified you must be dead."

6. "I can't help thinking that at some point someone is going to produce a piglet and we'll all have to chase it."

7. "Sometimes being alone is my only chance of good company."

Fifth Set of Seven Quotations

1. "Oh, I forgot. Wicky, Papa."

2. "But as Gloria Estefan says the rhythm is gonna get you."

3. "First I must tell you, I've been the most unmitigated and comprehensive ass."

4. "I do not think I can be very sensible."

5. "Elizabeth, we've been commanded to multiply and replenish the earth."

6. "I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing."

7. "Ding dong. Maybe this time mom had got it right."