Friday Film-Night :: Ten Things I Hate About You

This week I bring you another high-school movie. Love 'em. Truly. I wish John Hughes was still making movies set in Chaciago high schools today. But instead we have a new run which ain't half bad. One of them being:

Ten Things I Hate About You

This movie took on a 1990s trend of turning classics modern (Clueless was based on Jane Austen’s Emma) by tackling Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.

THE SET-UP

New kid at high school, sweet geek Cameron (not our hero ;)), finds himself falling for cute as a button Bianca Stratford (not our heroine) one of the most beautiful and popular girls in his class.

Problem is her over protective father has invented a crazy set of rules whereby Bianca is forbidden to start dating until her elder sister Kat does. The single father's reasoning being that Kat’s bitter nature prevents her from actually gaining a boyfriend so Bianca will also remain without a boyfriend for as long as possible, keeping both daughters focused on their school work and not the opposite sex.

Bianca sees nice boy and rather desperate Cameron as her way of making her father bend the rules so that she can see the boy she really wants to see, hotstuff catalogue model boy Joey Donner here helping Bianca with the bow and arrow. Cute no? But smarmy as hell, which helps as he's not our hero either!

THE HEROINE

Julia Styles plays Kat Stratford. Smart. Smart-mouthed. As anti boys as her younger sister is boy crazy. She has her reasons which we don’t find out until far down the track in a way that makes this preppy film deeper, stronger.

Julia Styles was born to play such a role. She oozes intelligence. And noboyd does sullen as well as she. but when she finally meets her match in our hero her development into a romantic lead is truly lovely.

THE HERO

To get to date Bianca, young needs to find someone willing to date Kat. He'd have to be sharp, fearless, and just a little bit crazy. Enter Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona. He isn't that crazy. But when Cameron offers date money for Patrick to ask Kat out, he agrees. Can you feel the cold winds of secrets kept circling to hit our young lovers down later in the tale?

I'm not a Heath Ledger fan. I don't see the appeal. But in this film some spark came through. He is dark, romantic, and above all honest. His growing feelings for our Kat are there for all to see. Gorgeous stuff.

THE REST

It takes some convincing, and some fantastic repartee, and for Patrick to sing "You're Just Too Good to Be True" over the loud speakers on the school oval before Kat agrees to date him.

And the romance is really really well handled. She's tough to break down, and he's supposedly doing it for the money, but somehow the two of them very quickly discover that they are just about perfect for one another.

Everything comes to a head at the school dance where Kat finds out why Patrick asked her out in the first place. Bianca finds out why Kat hates Joey so much and swore off boys forever. It gets quite fraught to tell you the truth. Muchos tears and beating of breasts from all involved.

And the real heart of the film hits when Kat has to stand up in class, heart-broken and recite her own version of Shakespeare's Sonnet 141. Look away now if you don't want to know what she has to say, and how far she has come:

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car.
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate the way you're always right.
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

As per usual for a film to really work it needs a good supporting cast. The glorious Allison Janney is hilarious as guidance counsellor and wannabe romance novelist Ms Perky who asks her students for a better word for “turgid”. And the Stratford's overprotective father, an obstetrician who makes them wear a strap on pregnant belly apparatus around the house before going to any party to show them what sex will do to them, is played by the delightful Larry Miller.

And not only do we have a happy ending for our actual hero and heroine, there are happy endings all over the place! Cameron and Bianca come together. as does Cameron's best friend and Kat's best friend. convlouted? not in the least. Sit down and watch the thing and you'll spend a truly lovely couple of hours on the couch.

Warm & Fuzzy Rating: 8.5

Ally's second Modern Extra Sensual novel, STEAMY SURRENDER is out....now in the UK! This is the one with the sexy Italian hero who owns his own string of gelatarias. Could it get any better? Yuh-huh! Add in a beautiful cabin in the snow, designer duds for our heroine and a sidetrip to Paris and life's a dream.

See more in an excerpt here, or better yet, go out and buy the thing!

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Thursday Talk-Time with Barbara Hannay

Barbara Hannay was this year's RITA winner for Best Traditional Romance! She is also the writer of the most evocative and moving Outback books around. So no wonder her favourite Category Romance ever has an Outback theme...

Unfortunately, I didn’t discover category romance until I was well and truly married and had four teenage children. As I had been an avid reader since early childhood, I have no idea how I went for so long without knowing about these wonderful books.

After my first book was published, I discovered my grandmother had always been an avid Mills and Boon fan, but as she’d lived in another state, I missed out on sharing this love with her.

So… my adventure with category romance began when I was teaching English and I was suddenly required to teach a unit of popular fiction to Year 11 students. We had to dissect Mills and Boon novels as well as detective fiction and action adventure stories.

As soon as I started reading the romance novels, I knew I’d found the stories I’d been looking for all my life – stories that I not only loved to read, but longed to write. As you can imagine, after missing so many romance reading years, I had a lot of catching up to do.

This was in the days before the Mills and Boon lines were divided and I remember that my early influences were Sally Wentworth, Catherine Spencer (I adored That Man Callahan!) Charlotte Lamb and Penny Jordan, as well as the supremely talented Australian author, Ann Charlton. (Her book Driftwood Dragon was superb.)

Over the years that followed, I kept discovering more and more wonderful authors who created fabulous stories with lively, complex, lovable characters, and intriguing plots, breathtaking sexual tension and gorgeous ‘a-ahhh’ moments. But how could I possibly single out a favourite?

During this time I knelt at the feet of more experienced Australian authors and listened closely whenever romance writers talked about books. And I became intrigued when the name Lucy Walker kept cropping up. I was even more intrigued when I eventually discovered that Lucy Walker wrote for Fontana Books back in the sixties and early seventies!!!

She’d obviously made a huge impact for her name to live on long after most of her contemporaries had disappeared off the radar. It was still some time before I came to own my very own Lucy Walker books and I discovered what all the fuss was about. Her books are now among my very precious and treasured possessions.

Let me tell you about The Man from Outback in which a young English girl, Mari, is whisked off to Australia after an unfortunate romance with the boy next door. Her family decided that a holiday might mend her broken heart… But as soon as she gets to Ninna-Warra Station, she meets Kane Manners, the manager, and her heart is soon in trouble again.

Before I continue, I should admit that some aspects of Lucy Walker’s books are outdated and I think some facets might be considered politically incorrect today. Added to this, the characters smoke, the heroine, Mari, is impossibly young and innocent -- the hero, Kane, thinks of her as a child -- and yet she finds herself in a marriage of convenience with this man, who is more than thirty (perhaps a lot more). And later we find that he’s married Mari to keep her a prisoner!

OK, I hear you ask… why was I so impressed? Well, to start with, I love to write books set in Outback Queensland and Lucy Walker’s description of the alien world of Western Australia and its remote Outback is masterful. It’s a world of dust covered trucks racing over bumpy, trackless ground, of palatial, tropical hotels with cool, palm-decorated lounges, and low, rambling homesteads where the main communication is by two way radio.

But the appeal of her books involves much more than their settings. Lucy Walker’s characters are skillfully drawn. In the best tradition of English girls Down Under, Mari Curtis is admirable and “plucky” as she faces up to the remoteness and strangeness of Ninna-Warra and its formidable master.

And Kane Manners is downright unforgettable.

Yes, I think that’s the key.

Lucy Walker’s heroes make a lasting impact. She has conquered the mysterious allure of the quiet loner and made him her own.

In The Man from Outback, we wait breathlessly with Mari from page one until page twelve before we actually meet Kane Manners.

On page 2, Mari is driving through the Outback with her uncle and asks what Kane looks like. When Bob, in the driver’s seat, simply moves his hat forward over his brow and Uncle Ralph takes his pipe out of his mouth and coughs, she wonders if they’re scared of him. Obviously, something about her question ‘put the men off their beat’.

And this is after another man has already referred to Kane as an ‘ogre’.

Eventually, Uncle Ralph tells Mari that Kane is: ‘…a big fellow. Well tall, anyway. He’s quiet. Likes to do things his own way...’

When Kane appears at last, Mari notices, almost immediately, his ‘considerable power of silence, a silence that made itself felt. She knew, without diagnosing it, that here was someone who shared only part of himself with other people. The greater part, the powerful part, was for himself alone.’

It is not until close to the end of the book that we understand about the uranium mine on the neighbouring property to Ninna-Warra and why this taciturn loner, Kane, feels he has to marry Mari. But we savour every moment of the exquisitely protracted tension between the innocent, star struck young girl and her remote and too quiet husband.

Mind you, Mari has some miserable moments in the middle of this story, especially on her wedding night.

Kane, his hat in hand, came along the veranda to the screen door. He stood looking at that double bed.

‘It will be plenty of room for you, Mari,’ he said quietly. ‘There ought to be another bed somewhere around for me.’

Mari’s heart stood still.

But to Kane’s dismay, he finds himself asking, ‘What, in the name of fortune, have they done with their other beds?’

Mari responds… ‘There’s plenty of room here… I can sleep on one side and you can sleep on the other…’

He stood looking down at her. He seemed troubled and now Mari knew her first painful thought had been right. He did not think she was old enough to be married.

Of course, they spend the night in bed together, and the tension in this scene and in many others is excruciating. Romance readers who devour this story, do so mostly to get to that delicious moment at the end, when they know Kane will openly declare his love. The night he finally comes to Mari’s bed with the words… ‘Move over, Mari. It’s too big a night for me to spend it alone.’

Oh, dear, sometimes these quotes taken out of context sound corny, but the appeal of these very traditional books is in the sustained tension, the suppressed longing and the secret mystery of the loner, who can be so very, very nice when he sets his mind to it. As an author for the Romance line, I continually find a great deal to learn from the old fashioned novels of Lucy Walker and they are still available at certain sites on line.

In fact, my book, The Cattleman’s English Rose, published in 2005, was my tribute to Lucy Walker. I even called my hero Kane McKinnon and his book was the first of my Southern Cross trilogy.

Now a question. Do you agree that it’s the hero who makes a romance outstanding? I’d love to hear about your favourites?

Barbara Hannay is a 2007 RITA winner for Best Traditional Romance for Claiming His Family.

This month, Needed: Her Mr. Right, Book #2 in the Secrets We Keep trilogy is available in the UK and North America and online in Australia and New Zealand.

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Writer's Wednesday - Michelle Willingham

This Wednesday at The Pink Heart Society Historicals author Michelle Willingham returns to tell us how life has changed since she got the call...

How My Life Changed Since Selling to Harlequin

1. I’ve learned how to write a book on a deadline while working full-time and caring for two toddlers. It meant giving up all television, but that’s what a DVR is for. The challenging aspect was knowing that I had to turn on the creativity every single day—and believe me, there were days when I felt like I was drawing blood out of rocks. Still, when it was finished, I felt a new sense of accomplishment. Now, when I have a rough writing day, I keep telling myself that *yes*, I can do it and to keep slogging through the bad spots.

2. I’ve learned that the writing never gets any easier, and the more books you write, the more you have to keep striving to improve. Sometimes you self-plagiarize, thinking that you’ve written a particularly wonderful phrase…and then you realize that you’ve used that same phrase in two other books you’ve written. Oops.

3. Potato chips and massive quantities of chocolate do not fix a bad scene. They do, however, make it easier to delete the aforementioned scene.

4. Get a publicity photo, a good author bio paragraph, and a website as soon as possible—even before you sell, if you can manage it. The last thing you want to worry about when you’re working on a deadline is how bad your hair looks in a photograph that will be printed in thousands of books across the country.

5. Publicity matters, and your local paper will often provide a great feature story about you and your first book. Schedule the article to come out the same week as your first booksigning, and you have a stronger chance of success. You’d be amazed how many of your home town friends from years ago will come out to say hello and to share in the fun.

6. Make friends with your local booksellers. Always buy a book and support them as much as you can.

7. Keep writing! You are only as good as your most recent book, and building a career takes time.

8. Stay positive and believe in yourself. Even when the writing feels awful and you want to go crawl under your bed, realize that you DO have what it takes to fix the bad scenes. Keep going, never give up, and write every day. Amazing things will happen when you do!

It’s been one year since I sold my first book, and since then, I’ve sold five books to Harlequin Historicals. I’m writing books I love, I have the best editor in the world, and even on the bad days, I think about how lucky I am.

(And we'll try to ignore that she didn't say meeting some of the PHS Ed's in Dallas this summer was the highlight of her year!!! *Humph*)

Michelle Willingham’s book The Warrior’s Touch is on sale now at both eharlequin and amazon. And her next book in the MacEgan Brothers series, Her Warrior King, will be released in January 2008. She is currently working on more medieval romances set in Ireland.

Visit her website at www.michellewillingham.com for more details.

Thanks Michelle!

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Temptation Tuesday -- Who In A Towel?

This week at The Pink Heart Society our lovely columnist Anne McAllister is here to tell us THE LEGEND OF HUGH IN A TOWEL..

Once upon a time (well, actually it was 2004) way Down Under, Kate Walker and I were invited to speak at the conferences of the Romance Writers of New Zealand and the Romance Writers of Australia.

Do you think we jumped at the chance?

Oh, yeah.

I was supposed to talk about the Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator and how understanding personality type can help you develop characters. It can also help you understand your own writing process. Among other things.

I talked about Hugh-in-a-towel.

Kate was supposed to talk about alpha heroes and the Presents voice or something like that.

She talked about Hugh-in-a-towel.

Well, why not? He was There, after all.

Kate had brought him (or a two-dimensional facsmile thereof) with her. It's proof of her dedication to her craft that she brought along show-and-tell items -- well, one item -- to enhance her talk. To make people sit up and take notice. To rivet their attention. We could have bored them silly (which, in truth, we tried not to do).

But whether we did or not, Hugh kept them awake.

Because she is such a dear friend, Kate let me borrow him for my talks as well. In fact he became the leit motif of the conference (our part of it anyway). People didn't blink, afraid they would miss the next appearance of Hugh.

After the conferences were over, Kate, in a fit of altruism which just proves the depth of her friendship, even let me bring him home because she said she had "others where that came from" or something like that.

Suffice to say, I am still in her debt. And believe me, I have been enjoying him ever since.

I'm apparently not the only one. Not only has Hugh become something of a mascot on her blog and mine, he has also taken on an heroic life of his own here on The Pink Heart.

Now in his second year as the prototype Male on Monday -- with his very own Hugh Jackman Tour, no less -- he seems to have become everyone's favorite hero.

Why?

Well, actually I'm surprised you need to ask. But if you need it spelled out, I think there are several reasons. First, it's because he can be so many heroes.

He can be Kate's intense Ramon in The Spaniard's Inconvenient Wife and (lucky for her) his lookalike English cousin Jake in Bound By Blackmail. He can be Liz Fielding's suave, sophisticated Ivo Grenville in Reunited: Marriage in Million and turn right around and be Julie Cohen's hero Oz in Being A Bad Girl or wild risk taker Ruggiero in Lucy Gordon's upcoming The Mediterranean Rebel's Bride.

And of course, he's been a beachcomber charter pilot Hugh McGillivray in my own In McGillivray's Bed (any similarity you notice between my hero's first name and Mr Jackman's is entirely coincidental) as well as cowboy turned actor Sloan Gallagher in The Great Montana Cowboy Auction. No doubt he has been the inspiration for a great many other unique, marvelous, sexy heroes as well.

He can become such disparate characters as tough-as-claws Logan (aka Wolverine) and time-traveling Leopold (in Kate and Leopold), as Thomas/Tommy/Tomas (in The Fountain) and computer geek Stanley (in Swordfish), as obsessed Robert Angier (in The Prestige) and uncomplicated Curly (in Oklahoma), as Peter Lyman (in Woody Allen's Scoop), and Peter Allen (in The Boy From Oz).

And, of course, early on we knew he was on our side because he was such a terrific Paperback Hero. From his early days on Aussie television to his upcoming lead role in Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia, Hugh (in a towel and every other way) has been able to transform himself into whatever a role required.

So, too, can we authors transform him into whichever hero we need him to be right now.

And, of course, he is gorgeous. Remember?

Beyond that, I think we see in him core qualities that we want in our romantic heroes. We see integrity. We see strength. We see respect. We see intelligence. We see gentleness. We see competence.

Of course we see a drop-dead gorgeous guy in a towel, but we also see a man who loves his wife and kids, and who will do whatever it takes to make their world a better place.

So whenever Kate or I put up the Hugh-in-a-towel picture at the conferences, whenever we put it up on our blogs, we are using it to say at least 1000 words in that one picture.

Hugh-in-a-towel is a shorthand way of getting to the heart of what makes our heroes who they are, of reminding ourselves and our readers or listeners (and lookers) of the qualities we are talking about.

It keeps us -- and them -- focused on what matters: not just the towel, but the whole man underneath it.


Anne's current book is THE BOSS'S WIFE FOR A WEEK which is out in September in M&B Modern and will be out as a Harlequin Presents in the US and as an M&B Sexy Down Under in October. Check out an excerpt here . . .

If you want to catch up on a couple of her Code of the West cowboys, Rita finalist, COWBOY ON THE RUN and Rita winning, THE STARDUST COWBOY, have been reissued in September Down Under as part of the Ultimate Collection.

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Male on Monday...Channing Tatum

Just look at him, ladies! I know we're always on the lookout for man candy...potential heroes...inspriation...whatever you want to call it, Channing Tatum has it.


Who is Channing Tatum? He's perfect Male on Monday fodder, especially for those trying to cast a 27-year-old hero. The former Abercrombie & Fitch, Dolce & Gabbana and Aeropostale model's big break was being cast in Ricky Martin's video for "She Bangs". I know, not the stuff of legends...but that's the first time he started turning heads

Sports kept him out of trouble growing up, and he earned a fooball scholarship to a school in West Virginia. He still summers with his grandparents back in Alabama. (aaahh)

Last year he won a fun Teen Choice Awards for his role in She's The Man - best breakout male. He was nominated for his role in Step Up...and earned critcal notice for his dramatic part in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.

Much is expected of Channing Tatum. Up next is Kimberly Peirce's Stop-Loss about returning home from the war in Iraq. Then comes Stuart Townsend's Battle in Seattle about the WTO protest. Lighter stuff is on the way as well, The Trap by Rita Wilson and Poor Things...that movie everyone is wondering if Lindsay Lohan is still doing...

A star on the rise, you may wonder who he is now, but mark my words, you'll still be drooling over him next year...

Oh, and ladies...he can dance!

Jenna is hard at work on her next title for Mills & Boon Modern Extra. In the meantime, check out her website, blog, or reading group, We Call It Research.

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Weekend Spotlight with Margaret Mayo

This weekend The Pink Heart Society spotlights author Margaret Mayo.

About Author: Margaret lives in a quiet country village in the UK and never had any ambition to become a writer. She loved reading but couldn’t imagine anyone having the patience to write all those thousands of words - until an idea for a short story turned into a full scale novel – and her relationship with writing began. Now, over thirty years later, she still encompasses all the pleasure that writing that first novel gave her. She left school at fifteen without any formal qualifications and began working as an office junior, climbing through the ranks to become secretary to the UK Manager of a Danish company. And it was while she was here that she began writing – the first eight of her books were actually written in her spare time at the office. She has a son and daughter and a grandson and step granddaughter, all of whom are very proud of her writing. Margaret herself rarely tells anyone what she does for a living – unless asked, of course, but her husband isn’t shy at boasting about her success.

Where do you get the inspiration for your books from? Along with most authors I get inspiration from newspapers, magazine articles, TV programmes, an overheard conversation. I need only a germ of an idea to start me off before the ‘what if?’ questions begin. It could even be a place that inspires me, and then I have to ask myself what the hero and heroine are doing there and what is the conflict (I use the term loosely) between them.

What makes you mad?

Parents who don’t control their children. Bad manners in public places.

What’s the most romantic thing that has ever happened to you?

My husband singing ‘Hold my hand I’m a stranger in paradise’ on the day that we met. He still sings it occasionally now.

What in a hero makes you drool?

Definitely his eyes. Colour doesn’t matter but I like my heroine to get the feeling that he’s making love to her simply by looking at her. Richard Gere did it well in Pretty Woman.

If you weren’t a writer what would you be?

At this stage in my life I’d like to be a successful artist. (note I say successful and not struggling!) When I was younger I wanted to be a PA who accompanied her boss on trips abroad. Such dreams!

What do you do to relax and wind down?

Curl up on the sofa and watch a good movie. Read. Or just simply sit and look out at my garden. We have a tiny stream running down into a pool and I love watching the movement of the water or the birds taking a bath. Doing nothing is the ultimate luxury because I’m always so very busy.

How do you get out of a writing rut?

Sometimes I write myself out of it. Eventually the story will come alive again and then I can delete all the rubbish that I’ve written. I’ve tried other methods like walking or gardening but they don’t work for me. Occasionally my subconscious will do the work. The answer will be there when I wake in a morning. It’s wonderful when that happens. On other occasions a change of viewpoint will get the story going again.

If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?

I’m actually very happy where I am. In my opinion there’s nothing to beat England. I always love coming back to it after a holiday abroad. It’s small and cosy and wraps itself around you. But I’m also very fond of Australia and can imagine myself sharing my time between the two countries.

Who would you most like to give a hug to?

Anyone who does good in this increasingly violent world.

Name a fabulous book you've read.

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. I’m deeply impressed by his amount of research in the building of a cathedral in 1123. It’s also a saga of love, passion and revenge. Brilliant!

What music do you listen to when writing?

I write best in perfect silence but occasionally, if I’m struggling, I play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. I read an article once on composers inspiring your artistic tendencies. Different composers for different star signs. Vivaldi was my man. And it works!

Tell us a secret nobody knows about you

Sorry, I have no secrets – none that I intend to share anyway.

What was your most embarrassing moment?

As a newly-wed I invited my mother and father-in-law to dinner and decided on roast chicken, even though I’d never cooked one before. When my mother-in-law offered to carve it I gladly conceded. I never knew they packed the giblets in little plastic bags and put them inside the chicken! I was so embarrassed when she found them still inside, and to this day I can still remember her saying, ‘We won’t tell the men!’

What have you had to celebrate in the last year?

Can I fast forward? Early next year I’ll be celebrating my fiftieth wedding anniversary. I almost cannot believe it. The years have flown by so quickly.

What’s beside your computer when you’re writing?

Notepad and pen. Very important for those elusive ideas that waft away into the ether if I don’t write them down. All sorts of research material for my work in progress. And a file of bills and letters all needing attention which I keep putting off because I’m more interested in the book that I’m writing.

If you could kiss anyone in the world who would it be?

I’ve thought hard about this one. Apart from my husband (naturally) it would be either Richard Gere (because the eyes have it!) or – no, I can’t think of anyone else.

What are you working on now?

At the moment I’m working on revisions to a book set in Australia where my hero, Cade, is seeking revenge on Simone, the woman who let him down badly several years ago. Unfortunately he was entirely wrong! Simone’s now suspicious that he’s trying to take her business off her - so troubles all round!
By the time you’re reading this, however, I’m hoping to have started a new one. I’m planning for my heroine to be coerced into becoming a nanny, looking after an Italian billionaire’s six year old daughter. The child has never lived with her father, only with her mother who has now died, and she hates him.

Margaret has written over 70 books for Mills and Boon over 30 years. How fabulous is that?

Her current release, BEDDED AT HIS CONVENIENCE, is out in the US, Australia and New Zealand now!

For more information, visit her website.

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