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The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 20, 2023

Rebooting Clueless: The Musical

Almost five years ago, I saw the off-Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical and found it a disappointingly pallid version of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 10, 2022

Baby Dionne

Last year, Alicia Silverstone got on TikTok and promptly started turning out Clueless-themed videos featuring her ten-year-old son. Now...

Deborah Yaffe

May 24, 2021

Reboot, booted

Back in late 2019, when corona was just a neighborhood in Queens, the news broke that Hollywood was considering a television reboot of...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 14, 2019

Hands off!

Why do people keep trying to mess with Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s 1995 movie, which updated the story of Emma to high school in Beverly...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 7, 2019

Kids in America

Over the weekend, I went to see Clueless: The Musical. It made me miss Clueless: The Movie. Which was probably not the intended effect....

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 31, 2018

Never too much Jane

Sometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 15, 2018

Austen karaoke

Recently – OK, it was two weeks ago – I found occasion to mention an old journalists’ joke: that three examples of a phenomenon...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 29, 2016

The Austen Catch-Up Project: As If!

I love Clueless. Doesn’t everyone? Last summer marked the twentieth anniversary of the film’s release, and the milestone inspired a slew...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 15, 2015

It was 20 years ago today (almost). . .

The year 1995 marked what I’ve called the Big Bang of contemporary Jane Austen fandom: Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s famous...