BBC: Trollope to rework Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

Now, that's no way to talk about a writer!

Ahhhh, wait, Trollope--my mistake. It seems the Trollope in this case is Joanna Trollope, writer of "upmarket family dramas and romances" (per Wikipedia). In essence, she makes the book equivalent of a Mercedes SUV.

Trollope is part of a movement by HarperFiction to create a series of modernizations of Austen's books. If that sounds like a bad idea, well, it is. Remember when Gus Van Sant remade Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in 1998? No?

Neither does anyone else.