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The Guardian reports that Granta names Alex Clark as first female editor

The NYT discusses filming The Road in Pennsylvania. I was beginning to feel some home state pride until I read this:

The producers chose Pennsylvania, one of them, Nick Wechsler, explained, because it’s one of the many states that give tax breaks and rebates to film companies and, not incidentally, because it offered such a pleasing array of post-apocalyptic scenery: deserted coalfields, run-down parts of Pittsburgh, windswept dunes.

According to the LA Times, Jill Faulkner Summers found among her father’s piles an un-produced, feature-length screenplay of a vampire film set in Eastern Europe. She has turned it over to producer Lee Caplin, who plans on turning it into a Southern Gothic Nosferatu and unfortunately has plans for some computer graphics to be involved. Now, all he needs to do is to add Oprah and a (most likely) bad script will then turn into a farce. The article also states that Caplin is attempting to produce an adaptation of The Sound and the Fury – good luck, I say to that. And Oprah is planning to produce Light in August. Let’s just hope she doesn’t add music to this one too.

Brilliant.