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• HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO "LTLE WOMEN" QUEER IN JO MARCH AND NO ONE ELSETHE LEGACY OF LOUISA MAY ALTT'S GENR-BENDG 19TH-CENTURY HEROE {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY SAM MANZELLADECEMBER 24, 2019/8:46 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:4125PX;WIDTH:2750PX;}WILSON WEBB/SAOIRSE RONAN GRETA GERWIG'S LITTLE WOMEN.BY SAM MANZELLADECEMBER 24, 2019 / 8:46 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO \"LTLE WOMEN\" QUEER IN JO MARCH AND NO ONE ELSE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-12-24T13:46:08.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-12-24T13:46:08.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"SAM MANZELLA","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“IF YOU CAN’T TEACH YOURSELF” IS A MONTHLY SERI WHICH A YOUNG QUEER WOMAN EXPLOR AN LGBTQ CULTURAL ARTIFACT FURTHERANCE OF HER QUEER TN. THK OF AS YOUR SYLLAB FOR QUEER CULTURE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I N'T GET OVER MY DISAPPOTMENT NOT BEG A BOY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO LAMENTS A YOUNG JOSEPHE "JO" MARCH LTLE WOMEN, LOUISA MAY ALTT'S CLASSIC 19TH-CENTURY NOVEL ABOUT FOUR TIGHT-KN, DIFFERENT-AS-N-BE SISTERS LIVG POVERTY CIVIL WAR–ERA CONRD, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FIRST PUBLISHED 1868, LTLE WOMEN WAS PROGRSIVE BY MOST STANDARDS EVEN THEN. FOR ONE THG, WAS A BEAST OF A NOVEL (CLOCKG AT 750 PAG) WRTEN BY A WOMAN, ABOUT FEMALE CHARACTERS, TARGETED TO AN OSTENSIBLY FEMALE DIENCE. THE FACT THAT WAS PUBLISHED AT THE REQUT OF HER PUBLISHER—LET ALONE THAT BEME A CRIL AND MERCIAL SUCCS WH LEGNS OF HIGH-PROFILE FANS MORE THAN A CENTURY LATER—WAS A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LTLE WOMEN SPAWNED A PLETHORA OF FILM AND TV ADAPTATNS, MOST FAMOLY THE AMY AWARD–NOMATED 1994 VERSN STARRG WONA RYR. NOW, YET ANOTHER ONSCREEN ADAPTATN IS HTG THEATERS: LADY BIRD TR GRETA GERWIG'S STAR-STUDD REIMAGG, WH IRISH-AMERIN ACTRS SAOIRSE RONAN THE ROLE OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PERHAPS MOST SIGNIFINT, THOUGH, WAS ALTT'S REFN OF WHAT A GENTEEL GIRL 1860S AMERI ULD LOOK LIKE. THROUGHOUT LTLE WOMEN, JO FI THE HARSHLY GENRED REER AND TERPERSONAL EXPECTATNS PLACED UPON HER A WAY THAT IS EASY TO READ AS QUEER. HER REPEATED WO AT NOT BEG BORN A BOY STRIKE A CHORD EP WH ME, A 23-YEAR-OLD QUEER WOMAN WHO ME OF AGE MORE THAN A CENTURY AFTER ALTT'S BILDUNGSROMAN FIRST H SHELV. GROWG UP, MY BT IENDS WERE ALMOST ALL BOYS. I WAS SOMETHG OF A TOMBOY—WHICH I'D LATER REVIS AS I PLAYED WH GENR PRENTATN MY ADULTHOOD—AND I REBED TRADNALLY "FEME" TERTS WH AN ADAMANT PASSN, PREFERRG STEAD TO PLAY GAM OF MANHUNT OR TAG WH IENDS THE WOODS THAT BORRED OUR SUBURBAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}READG LTLE WOMEN FOR THE FIRST TIME LONG AFTER I'D AGED OUT OF S TARGET MOGRAPHIC, I WAS SURPRISED HOW MUCH OF MYSELF I SAW YOUNG JO: HER SPIREDNS, HER AMBN, HER REBELLNS. AMONG HER THREE SISTERS (MEG, THE OLST AND MOST PROPER; BETH, THE MOST P; AND AMY, THE YOUNGT AND MOST ARTISTILLY CLED), JO QUICKLY EMERG AS THE UNLIKELY BACKBONE OF THE MARCH FAY. MARMEE, THE MARCH FAY MATRIARCH (PLAYED BY LRA DERN GERWIG'S VERSN), IS LEFT TO RAISE HER FOUR DGHTERS VIRTUALLY ALONE WHEN THE GIRLS' FATHER GO OFF TO WAR, AND JO SERV AS SOMETHG OF A SURROGATE FATHER FIGURE, RALLYG AND BOOSTG THE MORALE OF HER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT'S NOT TO SAY JO IS A SAT. SHE'S TEMPERAMENTAL AND PRONE TO OUTBURSTS—RONAN FTLY PORTRAYS THAT SI OF HER GERWIG'S LTLE WOMEN. JO'S DIVIDUAL RELATNSHIPS TO HER SISTERS EBB AND FLOW, NONE MORE SO THAN HER BOND WH AMY (MIDSOMMAR QUEEN FLORENCE PUGH), WHICH IS TTED BY RELATABLE BOUTS OF SECURY, UNFAIR JUDGMENT, AND PETIVENS AS THEY MATURE TO—WELL, NOT-SO-LTLE WOMEN. AT ONCE A TALENTED VISUAL ARTIST AND A PRIM AND PROPER LADY, AMY SERV AS A FOIL TO JO, WHOSE LERARY GIFTS AND KD HEART ARE AT TIM OVERSHADOWED BY HER AWKWARDNS, STUBBORNNS, AND DISFORT HER OWN BODY.WILSON WEBB/SAOIRSE RONAN AND TIMOTHéE CHALAMET COLUMBIA PICTUR’ LITTLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SAOIRSE RONAN (LEFT) AS JO MARCH AND TIMOTHéE CHALAMET AS THEODORE "LRIE" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON A VERY BASIC LEVEL, ALTT POSNS JO AS A GENR-BENT HEROE BY HAVG THE TEEN GIRL EAGERLY EMBRACE HER NICKNAME, A MASCULIZED VERSN OF JOSEPHE. THAT SIMPLE LGUISTIC CHOICE IS HIGHLIGHTED FURTHER WHEN REARS MEET THEODORE LRENCE, A.K.A. LRIE, THE MISCHIEVO GRANDSON OF THE MARCH'S WEALTHY NEIGHBOR WHO FALLS HEAD OVER HEELS FOR JO A MS OF A ONE-SID LOVE AFFAIR. (HE'S PORTRAYED THE NEWT ADAPTATN BY CALL ME BY YOUR NAME'S TWKY BREAKOUT STAR TIMOTHéE CHALAMET, ADDG AN EXTRA LAYER OF QUEER APPEAL TO THE PROCEEDGS.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JO IS HEADSTRONG, FIERCELY LOYAL, AND A GIFTED WRER—AND UNLIKE HER SISTERS, SHE HAS NO SIRE TO BE MARRIED OFF TO A MAN. IT'S NO SURPRISE, THEN, THAT ALTT, WHO SWORE OFF MARRIAGE, BASED JO LOOSELY ON HERSELF. (SPOILER ALERT: JO ENDS UP TYG THE KNOT WH ANOTHER MALE CHARACTER, ALTHOUGH ALTT'S PUBLISHER BASILLY MAND THAT NCLN, WANTG TO SEE JO MARRIED OFF.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OF URSE, MEN AND WOMEN WHO DIDN'T MARRY THE 1860S WERE FAR AND FEW BETWEEN, PROMPTG AMPLE SPECULATN ABOUT ALTT'S SEXUAL ORIENTATN. THE BELOVED WRER POWERED THE MOR L FURTHER BY LEAVG BEHD A TRAIL OF PRETTY EAKG QUEER LETTERS, ONE OF WHICH GERWIG DIRECTLY QUOTED TO NEWNOWNEXT WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE THOR'S QUEER LEGACY: "I BELIEVE I AM A MAN A WOMAN’S BODY, FOR I FALL LOVE WH HALF A DOZEN PRETTY GIRLS AND I HAVE NEVER FELT THAT FOR A MAN." WHEW!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, THE QUTN REMAS: WAS ALTT—AND, BY ASSOCIATN, HER SEMI-TOBGRAPHIL AVATAR LTLE WOMEN—QUEER? I REGRET TO RM YOU THAT WE DON'T HAVE A FIVE ANSWER, AND I FEAR THE TTH MIGHT HAVE BEEN LOST THE PASSAGE OF TIME SCE THE BELOVED THOR'S ATH AT AGE 55 1888. SYSTEMIC, EPLY GRAED HOMOPHOBIA WAS IS ONE HELL OF A TOOL FOR ERASURE, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I N SAY THIS, THOUGH: IT DON'T REALLY MATTER IF ALTT OR JO WERE QUEER. WHAT DO MATTER IS JO'S SHEER EXISTENCE. SHE WAS AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF NONTRADNAL FEMY AMERIN LERATURE, A BEAN OF HOPE TO MANY WOMEN—STRAIGHT, GAY, QUEER, GENR-NONNFORMG—WHO WERE G OF AGE A VERY DIFFICULT PERD THIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE TOSS AROUND THE PHRASE "QUEER IN" SO LIBERALLY THE DAYS, BUT PLEASE, DULGE ME BTOWG JO MARCH WH THAT TLE. HAPPY HOLIGAYS, LADY. YOU SERVE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LTLE WOMEN HS THEATERS NATNWI DECEMBER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• WHY THE CULT OF JO MARCH AND LTLE WOMEN ENDURLOUISA MAY ALTT’S BELOVED CHARACTER RETURNS A NEW MASTERPIECE SERI STARRG MAYA HAWKE—AND HORS OF JO ALYT WILL BE WATCHG CLOSELY TO MAKE SURE GETS THEIR HEROE RIGHT.BY ER CARLSONMAY 10, 2018WONA RYR AS JO LTLE WOMEN, 1994; WILLA FZGERALD AS MEG AND MAYA HAWKE AS JO THE NEW MASTERPIECE SERI.LEFT, OM COLUMBIA/EVERETT COLLECTN; RIGHT, URTY OF PBS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE ARE FOUR MARCH SISTERS LTLE WOMEN, LOUISA MAY ALTT’S 150-YEAR-OLD, STILL-BELOVED NOVEL ABOUT LIFE CIVIL WAR-ERA NEW ENGLAND—BUT THERE’S ONLY ONE WHO MANAGED TO SPIRE EVERYONE OM NORA EPHRON TO JOYCE CAROL OAT. SEND-OLST SIBLG JO, A WRER AND BOLD REJECTOR OF GENR ROL, HAS BEEN ENURAGG ARTISTIC, ADVENTURE-SEEKG GIRLS TO CHASE THEIR DREAMS FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. SHE’S BEEN THE STAR OF EVERY MAJOR ADAPTATN OF ALTT’S MAGNUM OP—THE LATT OF WHICH IS A PBS MASTERPIECE MISERI, PREMIERG MAY 13, WH MAYA HAWKE AS JO.SHE’LL HAVE BIG BOOTS TO FILL. TO THE GENERATN THAT ME OF AGE TWO S AGO, THERE’S ALREADY A FIVE JO: WONA RYR, WHO STARRED GILLIAN ARMSTRONG’S 1994 LTLE WOMEN FILM ALONGSI A ST THAT CLUD SAN SARANDON, CHRISTIAN BALE, KIRSTEN DUNST, AND CLAIRE DAN. AT FIRST, ARMSTRONG WASN’T NVCED THAT RYR WOULD BE RIGHT FOR THE PART OF HEADSTRONG, TOMBOYISH JO; THE ACTRS HAD MA HER NAME FEME ROL THAT EMPHASIZED HER ETHEREAL BETY, MOVI LIKE THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE HOE OF THE SPIRS, AND EDWARD SCISSORHANDS.BUT MEETG RYR CHANGED THE DIRECTOR’S MD. AS ARMSTRONG SAID AN TERVIEW, RYR WAS “SO SMART, PASSNATE, AND FUNNY”—SO DIFFERENT OM HER ALOOF, MYSTER MOVIE PERSONA. AND SHE STANTLY BOND WH HER -STARS, CLUDG DAN AS AIL BETH, DUNST AS SOCIETY-LADY--TRAG AMY, AND TRI ALVARADO AS MATERNAL MEG.CELEBRATED AS IS NOW, THE FILM WAS RISKY S TIME. WHEN ARMSTRONG PRENTED HER DIRECTOR’S CUT OF LTLE WOMEN TO EXECUTIV AT SONY’S COLUMBIA PICTUR, THE STUD BRASS—NOTABLY THEN-COLUMBIA CHAIRMAN MARK CANTON, SHE SAID—WALKED TO THE SCREENG FILLED WH DREAD. ARMSTRONG SENSED THAT THEY RENTED SPENDG AN AFTERNOON STG THROUGH A KIDS’ MOVIE—PECIALLY ONE ABOUT 19TH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND TEENAGERS WASSAILG, OR SEWG, OR DOG WHATEVER WAS THAT THEY DID 1862.AS THE CREDS ROLLED, THE SUS WERE SGG A DIFFERENT TUNE. “THEY ALL CRIED,” ARMSTRONG SAID. “THAT WAS MY BT DIENCE SCREENG EVER: A ROOM FULL OF MEN SUS WHO CRIED FOR WOMEN.” WHEN WAS RELEASED, LTLE WOMEN WON GLOWG REVIEWS, AND GROSSED $50 LN ON AN $18 LN BUDGET TO BOOT.THAT’S NO SMALL PART THANKS TO RYR’S OSR-NOMATED TERPRETATN OF JO—A YOUNG WOMAN WHO’S SIMULTANEOLY SWEET AND STRANGE, AGILE AND TOUGH, ANGRY AND JOYO. EVEN THE 1990S, WAS RARE TO SEE AN AMB WOMAN—A MISF, NO LS!—GLORIFIED ON THE BIG SCREEN, LET ALONE ONE SO YOUNG. THE MOVIE SEEMED LIKE A VALENTE ADDRSED TO A GENERATN OF PREC GIRLS, SO BELOVED THAT EVEN RYR’S 2001 ARRT FOR SHOPLIFTG MA HER SOMETHG OF A FOLK HERO THEIR EY—EVEN AS SHE WAS LARGELY SHUNNED BY THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY. (“IT’S VERY, VERY SAD THAT SHE’S HAD THOSE MISSG YEARS HER REER, I HAVE TO SAY,” ARMSTRONG SAID OF RYR, WHO WAS ABSENT OM THE SPOTLIGHT FOR YEARS BEFORE LANDG ANOTHER H WH NETFLIX’S STRANGER THGS. “I THK I’M ALLOWED TO SAY THAT WHOUT BEG TOO HURTFUL. AND ’S GREAT TO SEE THAT SHE’S BACK.”)BOTH ARMSTRONG AND SARANDON, WHO PLAYED JO’S FEMIST MOTHER, MARMEE, ARE ED TO HEARG OM DIE-HARD LTLE WOMEN FANS. PERHAPS THE FILM STILL STRIK SUCH A CHORD BEE, AS SARANDON POTED OUT A RECENT NVERSATN, ’S ABOUT YOUNG WOMEN CIDG THEIR FAT A WORLD OF LIMED OPTNS—A NARRATIVE THAT’S AS ALLURG AS IS RARELY TOLD. (SARANDON HERSELF PHED TO MAKE THE FILM AS REALISTIC AS POSSIBLE, FOR TO SHOW “DIRTY PETTIATS” AND REAL EVINCE OF THE MARCH FAY’S FANCIAL STGGL.) THOUGH “MORE AND MORE THGS ARE OPEN TO YOU NOW,” SHE SAID, THE QUTNS RAISED BY THE NOVEL-TURNED-FILM REMA RELEVANT AS EVER: WHO AM I? HOW DO I RISE ABOVE THE LIMS OF GENR AND CLASS TO ACHIEVE MY POTENTIAL, AND BALANCE THE OBLIGATNS OF FAY LIFE WH THE SIRE FOR SOMETHG MORE? OR, AS THE WRY SAN CHEEVER—THOR OF A 2010 BGRAPHY OF ALTT—PUT : “THE PRSG THG ABOUT LTLE WOMEN IS HOW LTLE HAS CHANGED.”EVEN DIVORCED OM RYR’S PERFORMANCE, OR THE WIR NTEXT OF THE STORY, JO IS FASCATG. SHE’S A MS OF NTRADICTNS THAT BLEND TO FORM ONE OF THE MOST HONT AND PLEX HERO LERATURE—A “LOSTAR,” CHEEVER’S WORDS. SHE STUNS EVERYONE BY SELLG HER HAIR—HER “ONE BETY!”—TO HELP PAY FOR MARMEE’S TRIP TO VIS THEIR ILL FATHER, A CHAPLA THE UNN ARMY. DURG A FD WH AMY, SHE GETS PARALYZED WH SHOCK WHEN HER YOUNGT SISTER FALLS THROUGH SOME TH ICE—AND RATHER THAN IMMEDIATELY PLUNGG AFTER HER, JO NEARLY LEAV AMY TO DROWN. MOST UNFIVABLY TO GENERATNS OF REARS, JO ALSO WALKS AWAY OM WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A FANTASY LIFE WH LRIE, THE WEALTHIT, DREAMIT BOY NEXT DOOR—BEE SHE’S NOT LOVE WH HIM.IN SOME WAYS, CHEEVER SUGGTED, LTLE WOMEN’S POWER WAS A HISTORIL ACCINT. ALTT WASN’T VIEWED THE SAME PETIVE LIGHT AS HER MALE NTEMPORARI, WHICH ALLOWED HER TO WRE HONTLY—AND WH A LICENSE TO EXPLORE JO’S DARK FEELGS. “THE DARKNS IS ALWAYS THE HARST PART TO WRE. AND ALTT JT GOT ,” SHE SAID. THAT QUALY MAK JO NOT JT SPIRG, BUT DANGERO—A REBEL, A UNTERPOT TO THOSE MANDG THAT WOMEN BE LADYLIKE AND PRETTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF PLEASG MEN. JO REJECTED LRIE’S MARRIAGE PROPOSAL BEE SHE DIDN’T RE TO PLEASE HIM—SHE WANTED TO BE EE TO SEE THE WORLD AND EXPERIENCE FOR HERSELF. SHE WANTED TO BE LRIE.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONWONA RYR, TRI ALVARADO, KIRSTEN DUNST, SAN SARANDON AND CLAIRE DAN 1994.FROM COLUMBIA/EVERETT COLLECTN.IN A RATHER JO-LIKE MOVE, MAYA HAWKE, THE 19-YEAR-OLD DGHTER OF UMA THURMAN AND ETHAN HAWKE, DROPPED OUT OF JUILLIARD TO TAKE THE PART THE UPG PBS MISERI. (THE TONY NSERVATORY WOULD NOT ALLOW HAWKE TO BE TWO WEEKS LATE FOR THE START OF TERM ORR TO SHOOT LTLE WOMEN.) HER FNS FOR THE ROLE DIDN’T STOP THERE: OVER THREE ENJOYABLE HOURS, HAWKE THOROUGHLY CHANNELS JO, LIKE RYR BEFORE HER—BUT GIV HER AN EARTHY EDGE AS WELL. SHE’S GOT THE DIE-OL CHARISMA OF HER LEAGE AND A ROOKIE’S LACK OF SELF-NSCNS.HAWKE ALSO DID HER HOMEWORK BEFORE THE SHOOT, REARCHG THE TIME PERD AND THE TRANSCENNTALIST MOVEMENT THAT LKED ALTT TO OTHER LERARY GIANTS SUCH AS RALPH WALDO EMERSON AND HENRY DAVID THORE. THE MARCH, THE ACTRS SAID AN TERVIEW, ARE A MUCH MORE NSERVATIVE VERSN OF ALTT’S ACTUAL PARENTS: AMOS BRONSON ALTT, AN TOR, TRANSCENNTALIST, AND ABOLNIST; AND HER MOTHER, ABIGAIL, A SOCIAL WORKER WHO HELPED BRONSON HI FUGIVE SLAV ALONG THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD.“I WAS ALWAYS TERTED HER REBELLN AND HER DISREGARD FOR NVENTN. I THK SO MANY TIM PEOPLE GET CRED FOR BEG REBELS AND FOR BEG DIFFERENT AND FOR BREAKG L, WHEN REALLY THEY’RE NOT BREAKG THEM,” HAWKE SAID. JO, HOWEVER, HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO BE UNNVENTNAL—AND SO, PERHAPS, DID ALTT, WHO PULLED A REBEL MOVE BY BREAKG ADOLCENT HEARTS AND HAVG JO SPURN LRIE, ACRDG TO CHEEVER’S BOOK. “GIRLS WRE TO ASK WHO THE LTLE WOMEN MARRY, AS IF THAT WAS THE ONLY AIM AND END OF A WOMAN’S LIFE,” ALTT WROTE HER JOURNAL AFTER THE PUBLITN OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF LTLE WOMEN. “I WON’T MARRY JO TO LRIE TO PLEASE ANYONE.”FROM AMIA TO AN UPG GRAPHIC-NOVEL RETELLG OF THE STORY, REARS HAVE OFTEN ASSERTED THAT JO—WHO SPEAKS REPEATEDLY ABOUT WANTG TO BE A MAN—IS GAY. BUT MASTERPIECE SCREENWRER HEIDI THOMAS, HOWEVER, THKS THAT ISN’T QUE RIGHT: “WHEN JO SAYS, ‘I WISH I WAS A MAN,’ WHAT SHE’S SAYG IS, ‘I WISH I WAS EE. I WISH I WAS EE TO CHOOSE. I WISH I WAS EE TO TRAVEL. I WISH I WAS EE NOT TO WEAR LAYERS AND LAYERS OF PETTIATS AND DRS UP ALL THE TIME.’”HAWKE AGRE. “THE REAL STORY,” SHE SAID, “IS OF A WOMAN WHO TOTALLY BREAKS THE SOCIETAL NORMS, AND NEVER GETS MARRIED AND REMAS PENNT HER WHOLE LIFE”—WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ALTT HERSELF. DUE TO CULTURAL PRSURE, THOUGH, THE THOR ULTIMATELY HAD TO GIVE JO A HBAND ON THE PAGE.SO SHE DID, THE FORM OF PROFSOR BHAER—THE GERMAN AMIC WHOM JO EVENTUALLY MARRI, AN UNNVENTNAL, MIDDLE-AGED, MPLED MAN WHO IS HER TELLECTUAL EQUAL. THE TWO WELE TWO SONS AND OPEN A PROGRSIVE SCHOOL FOR BOYS, STALLG JO’S PLANS FOR LERARY STARDOM. LTLE WOMEN’S LAST PAG FLASH FORWARD TO JO AND HER SISTERS CHEERFULLY DISCSG THE WAYS WHICH THEIR LIV HAVEN’T TURNED OUT AS THEY EXPECTED: “I HAVEN’T GIVEN UP THE HOPE THAT I MAY WRE A GOOD BOOK YET, BUT I N WA, AND I’M SURE WILL BE ALL THE BETTER FOR SUCH EXPERIENC,” SHE CLAR.SUCH IS THE REALY OF BOOK JO’S SUATN; SHE MT POSTPONE HER CREATIVE PURSUS TO HOLD DOWN THE FORT, A BTERSWEET AND STRIKGLY NTEMPORARY ENDG. MEANWHILE, MOVIE JO, AS PORTRAYED BY RYR, ENDS ON A HIGH NOTE OF POST-FEMIST WISH FULFILLMENT, WH THE DOUBLE TRIUMPHS OF PUBLISHG HER MASTERPIECE NOVEL AND FDG MR. RIGHT BHAER (GABRIEL BYRNE).MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONTHE MASTERPIECE SERI, HOWEVER, STAYS TE TO ALTT’S POIGNANT ORIGAL FALE. WHEN THOMAS WROTE THE LAST SCENE, SHE BEGAN TO CRY, THKG: THAT’S ACTUALLY THE MSAGE OF LTLE WOMEN. IT’S ABOUT EMBRACG IMPERFECTN. AND SOMETIM GOOD ENOUGH IS GOOD ENOUGH.MONTHS LATER, THOMAS SCREENED THE FAL CUT FOR HER HBAND AND SON. THEIR RPONSE WOULD GIVE ARMSTRONG A WARM FLASH OF REGNN: AFTER WATCHG MASTERPIECE’S LTLE WOMEN, SHE SAID, THE THOMAS MEN “WERE ABSOLUTE PIEC. THEY ULDN’T STOP CRYG. IT WAS A BIG MOMENT.”IMAGARY WISH LIST: ANNA KARENA1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONKEYSTONE PICTUR USA / ALAMY STOCK PHOTONILA PAGETT AS ANNA KARENAANNA KARENA HAS BEEN PORTRAYED BY MANY ACTRS OVER THE YEARS. HERE, NILA PAGETT STARS A BBC TWO DRAMATISATN OM 1976.ER CARLSON

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO "LTLE WOMEN" QUEER IN JO MARCH AND NO ONE ELSETHE LEGACY OF LOUISA MAY ALTT'S GENR-BENDG 19TH-CENTURY HEROE {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY SAM MANZELLADECEMBER 24, 2019/8:46 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:4125PX;WIDTH:2750PX;}WILSON WEBB/SAOIRSE RONAN GRETA GERWIG'S LITTLE WOMEN.BY SAM MANZELLADECEMBER 24, 2019 / 8:46 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO \"LTLE WOMEN\" QUEER IN JO MARCH AND NO ONE ELSE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-12-24T13:46:08.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-12-24T13:46:08.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"SAM MANZELLA","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“IF YOU CAN’T TEACH YOURSELF” IS A MONTHLY SERI WHICH A YOUNG QUEER WOMAN EXPLOR AN LGBTQ CULTURAL ARTIFACT FURTHERANCE OF HER QUEER TN. THK OF AS YOUR SYLLAB FOR QUEER CULTURE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I N'T GET OVER MY DISAPPOTMENT NOT BEG A BOY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO LAMENTS A YOUNG JOSEPHE "JO" MARCH LTLE WOMEN, LOUISA MAY ALTT'S CLASSIC 19TH-CENTURY NOVEL ABOUT FOUR TIGHT-KN, DIFFERENT-AS-N-BE SISTERS LIVG POVERTY CIVIL WAR–ERA CONRD, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FIRST PUBLISHED 1868, LTLE WOMEN WAS PROGRSIVE BY MOST STANDARDS EVEN THEN. FOR ONE THG, WAS A BEAST OF A NOVEL (CLOCKG AT 750 PAG) WRTEN BY A WOMAN, ABOUT FEMALE CHARACTERS, TARGETED TO AN OSTENSIBLY FEMALE DIENCE. THE FACT THAT WAS PUBLISHED AT THE REQUT OF HER PUBLISHER—LET ALONE THAT BEME A CRIL AND MERCIAL SUCCS WH LEGNS OF HIGH-PROFILE FANS MORE THAN A CENTURY LATER—WAS A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LTLE WOMEN SPAWNED A PLETHORA OF FILM AND TV ADAPTATNS, MOST FAMOLY THE AMY AWARD–NOMATED 1994 VERSN STARRG WONA RYR. NOW, YET ANOTHER ONSCREEN ADAPTATN IS HTG THEATERS: LADY BIRD TR GRETA GERWIG'S STAR-STUDD REIMAGG, WH IRISH-AMERIN ACTRS SAOIRSE RONAN THE ROLE OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PERHAPS MOST SIGNIFINT, THOUGH, WAS ALTT'S REFN OF WHAT A GENTEEL GIRL 1860S AMERI ULD LOOK LIKE. THROUGHOUT LTLE WOMEN, JO FI THE HARSHLY GENRED REER AND TERPERSONAL EXPECTATNS PLACED UPON HER A WAY THAT IS EASY TO READ AS QUEER. HER REPEATED WO AT NOT BEG BORN A BOY STRIKE A CHORD EP WH ME, A 23-YEAR-OLD QUEER WOMAN WHO ME OF AGE MORE THAN A CENTURY AFTER ALTT'S BILDUNGSROMAN FIRST H SHELV. GROWG UP, MY BT IENDS WERE ALMOST ALL BOYS. I WAS SOMETHG OF A TOMBOY—WHICH I'D LATER REVIS AS I PLAYED WH GENR PRENTATN MY ADULTHOOD—AND I REBED TRADNALLY "FEME" TERTS WH AN ADAMANT PASSN, PREFERRG STEAD TO PLAY GAM OF MANHUNT OR TAG WH IENDS THE WOODS THAT BORRED OUR SUBURBAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}READG LTLE WOMEN FOR THE FIRST TIME LONG AFTER I'D AGED OUT OF S TARGET MOGRAPHIC, I WAS SURPRISED HOW MUCH OF MYSELF I SAW YOUNG JO: HER SPIREDNS, HER AMBN, HER REBELLNS. AMONG HER THREE SISTERS (MEG, THE OLST AND MOST PROPER; BETH, THE MOST P; AND AMY, THE YOUNGT AND MOST ARTISTILLY CLED), JO QUICKLY EMERG AS THE UNLIKELY BACKBONE OF THE MARCH FAY. MARMEE, THE MARCH FAY MATRIARCH (PLAYED BY LRA DERN GERWIG'S VERSN), IS LEFT TO RAISE HER FOUR DGHTERS VIRTUALLY ALONE WHEN THE GIRLS' FATHER GO OFF TO WAR, AND JO SERV AS SOMETHG OF A SURROGATE FATHER FIGURE, RALLYG AND BOOSTG THE MORALE OF HER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT'S NOT TO SAY JO IS A SAT. SHE'S TEMPERAMENTAL AND PRONE TO OUTBURSTS—RONAN FTLY PORTRAYS THAT SI OF HER GERWIG'S LTLE WOMEN. JO'S DIVIDUAL RELATNSHIPS TO HER SISTERS EBB AND FLOW, NONE MORE SO THAN HER BOND WH AMY (MIDSOMMAR QUEEN FLORENCE PUGH), WHICH IS TTED BY RELATABLE BOUTS OF SECURY, UNFAIR JUDGMENT, AND PETIVENS AS THEY MATURE TO—WELL, NOT-SO-LTLE WOMEN. AT ONCE A TALENTED VISUAL ARTIST AND A PRIM AND PROPER LADY, AMY SERV AS A FOIL TO JO, WHOSE LERARY GIFTS AND KD HEART ARE AT TIM OVERSHADOWED BY HER AWKWARDNS, STUBBORNNS, AND DISFORT HER OWN BODY.WILSON WEBB/SAOIRSE RONAN AND TIMOTHéE CHALAMET COLUMBIA PICTUR’ LITTLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SAOIRSE RONAN (LEFT) AS JO MARCH AND TIMOTHéE CHALAMET AS THEODORE "LRIE" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON A VERY BASIC LEVEL, ALTT POSNS JO AS A GENR-BENT HEROE BY HAVG THE TEEN GIRL EAGERLY EMBRACE HER NICKNAME, A MASCULIZED VERSN OF JOSEPHE. THAT SIMPLE LGUISTIC CHOICE IS HIGHLIGHTED FURTHER WHEN REARS MEET THEODORE LRENCE, A.K.A. LRIE, THE MISCHIEVO GRANDSON OF THE MARCH'S WEALTHY NEIGHBOR WHO FALLS HEAD OVER HEELS FOR JO A MS OF A ONE-SID LOVE AFFAIR. (HE'S PORTRAYED THE NEWT ADAPTATN BY CALL ME BY YOUR NAME'S TWKY BREAKOUT STAR TIMOTHéE CHALAMET, ADDG AN EXTRA LAYER OF QUEER APPEAL TO THE PROCEEDGS.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JO IS HEADSTRONG, FIERCELY LOYAL, AND A GIFTED WRER—AND UNLIKE HER SISTERS, SHE HAS NO SIRE TO BE MARRIED OFF TO A MAN. IT'S NO SURPRISE, THEN, THAT ALTT, WHO SWORE OFF MARRIAGE, BASED JO LOOSELY ON HERSELF. (SPOILER ALERT: JO ENDS UP TYG THE KNOT WH ANOTHER MALE CHARACTER, ALTHOUGH ALTT'S PUBLISHER BASILLY MAND THAT NCLN, WANTG TO SEE JO MARRIED OFF.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OF URSE, MEN AND WOMEN WHO DIDN'T MARRY THE 1860S WERE FAR AND FEW BETWEEN, PROMPTG AMPLE SPECULATN ABOUT ALTT'S SEXUAL ORIENTATN. THE BELOVED WRER POWERED THE MOR L FURTHER BY LEAVG BEHD A TRAIL OF PRETTY EAKG QUEER LETTERS, ONE OF WHICH GERWIG DIRECTLY QUOTED TO NEWNOWNEXT WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE THOR'S QUEER LEGACY: "I BELIEVE I AM A MAN A WOMAN’S BODY, FOR I FALL LOVE WH HALF A DOZEN PRETTY GIRLS AND I HAVE NEVER FELT THAT FOR A MAN." WHEW!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, THE QUTN REMAS: WAS ALTT—AND, BY ASSOCIATN, HER SEMI-TOBGRAPHIL AVATAR LTLE WOMEN—QUEER? I REGRET TO RM YOU THAT WE DON'T HAVE A FIVE ANSWER, AND I FEAR THE TTH MIGHT HAVE BEEN LOST THE PASSAGE OF TIME SCE THE BELOVED THOR'S ATH AT AGE 55 1888. SYSTEMIC, EPLY GRAED HOMOPHOBIA WAS IS ONE HELL OF A TOOL FOR ERASURE, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I N SAY THIS, THOUGH: IT DON'T REALLY MATTER IF ALTT OR JO WERE QUEER. WHAT DO MATTER IS JO'S SHEER EXISTENCE. SHE WAS AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF NONTRADNAL FEMY AMERIN LERATURE, A BEAN OF HOPE TO MANY WOMEN—STRAIGHT, GAY, QUEER, GENR-NONNFORMG—WHO WERE G OF AGE A VERY DIFFICULT PERD THIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE TOSS AROUND THE PHRASE "QUEER IN" SO LIBERALLY THE DAYS, BUT PLEASE, DULGE ME BTOWG JO MARCH WH THAT TLE. HAPPY HOLIGAYS, LADY. YOU SERVE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LTLE WOMEN HS THEATERS NATNWI DECEMBER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Jo, all her tomboyish glory, has set off queer rears’ gaydars for 150 years now, and Gerwig’s adaptatn, whout beg too explic about , do geo jtice to that readg.

I don’t thk there’s necsarily a “te” Jo March who’s been wag all the years for people to realize she’s gay, any more than I thk that eher of the men Jo nsirs spendg her life wh is her “te” match.

I don’t remember exactly how I me across , but a while ago I stumbled upon an onle list that an anizatn lled the Publishg Triangle had ma of the “100 Bt Lbian and Gay Novels of all time. There were the overtly gay-themed novels you might expect — E. Forster‘s Mrice, for example, and Radclyffe Hall‘s The Well of Lonels — as well as books that I regnized as subtextually gay, even if ’s not que ma explic: D.

WHY THE CULT OF JO MARCH AND LTLE WOMEN ENDURLOUISA MAY ALTT’S BELOVED CHARACTER RETURNS A NEW MASTERPIECE SERI STARRG MAYA HAWKE—AND HORS OF JO ALYT WILL BE WATCHG CLOSELY TO MAKE SURE GETS THEIR HEROE RIGHT.BY ER CARLSONMAY 10, 2018WONA RYR AS JO LTLE WOMEN, 1994; WILLA FZGERALD AS MEG AND MAYA HAWKE AS JO THE NEW MASTERPIECE SERI.LEFT, OM COLUMBIA/EVERETT COLLECTN; RIGHT, URTY OF PBS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE ARE FOUR MARCH SISTERS LTLE WOMEN, LOUISA MAY ALTT’S 150-YEAR-OLD, STILL-BELOVED NOVEL ABOUT LIFE CIVIL WAR-ERA NEW ENGLAND—BUT THERE’S ONLY ONE WHO MANAGED TO SPIRE EVERYONE OM NORA EPHRON TO JOYCE CAROL OAT. SEND-OLST SIBLG JO, A WRER AND BOLD REJECTOR OF GENR ROL, HAS BEEN ENURAGG ARTISTIC, ADVENTURE-SEEKG GIRLS TO CHASE THEIR DREAMS FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. SHE’S BEEN THE STAR OF EVERY MAJOR ADAPTATN OF ALTT’S MAGNUM OP—THE LATT OF WHICH IS A PBS MASTERPIECE MISERI, PREMIERG MAY 13, WH MAYA HAWKE AS JO.SHE’LL HAVE BIG BOOTS TO FILL. TO THE GENERATN THAT ME OF AGE TWO S AGO, THERE’S ALREADY A FIVE JO: WONA RYR, WHO STARRED GILLIAN ARMSTRONG’S 1994 LTLE WOMEN FILM ALONGSI A ST THAT CLUD SAN SARANDON, CHRISTIAN BALE, KIRSTEN DUNST, AND CLAIRE DAN. AT FIRST, ARMSTRONG WASN’T NVCED THAT RYR WOULD BE RIGHT FOR THE PART OF HEADSTRONG, TOMBOYISH JO; THE ACTRS HAD MA HER NAME FEME ROL THAT EMPHASIZED HER ETHEREAL BETY, MOVI LIKE THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE HOE OF THE SPIRS, AND EDWARD SCISSORHANDS.BUT MEETG RYR CHANGED THE DIRECTOR’S MD. AS ARMSTRONG SAID AN TERVIEW, RYR WAS “SO SMART, PASSNATE, AND FUNNY”—SO DIFFERENT OM HER ALOOF, MYSTER MOVIE PERSONA. AND SHE STANTLY BOND WH HER -STARS, CLUDG DAN AS AIL BETH, DUNST AS SOCIETY-LADY--TRAG AMY, AND TRI ALVARADO AS MATERNAL MEG.CELEBRATED AS IS NOW, THE FILM WAS RISKY S TIME. WHEN ARMSTRONG PRENTED HER DIRECTOR’S CUT OF LTLE WOMEN TO EXECUTIV AT SONY’S COLUMBIA PICTUR, THE STUD BRASS—NOTABLY THEN-COLUMBIA CHAIRMAN MARK CANTON, SHE SAID—WALKED TO THE SCREENG FILLED WH DREAD. ARMSTRONG SENSED THAT THEY RENTED SPENDG AN AFTERNOON STG THROUGH A KIDS’ MOVIE—PECIALLY ONE ABOUT 19TH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND TEENAGERS WASSAILG, OR SEWG, OR DOG WHATEVER WAS THAT THEY DID 1862.AS THE CREDS ROLLED, THE SUS WERE SGG A DIFFERENT TUNE. “THEY ALL CRIED,” ARMSTRONG SAID. “THAT WAS MY BT DIENCE SCREENG EVER: A ROOM FULL OF MEN SUS WHO CRIED FOR WOMEN.” WHEN WAS RELEASED, LTLE WOMEN WON GLOWG REVIEWS, AND GROSSED $50 LN ON AN $18 LN BUDGET TO BOOT.THAT’S NO SMALL PART THANKS TO RYR’S OSR-NOMATED TERPRETATN OF JO—A YOUNG WOMAN WHO’S SIMULTANEOLY SWEET AND STRANGE, AGILE AND TOUGH, ANGRY AND JOYO. EVEN THE 1990S, WAS RARE TO SEE AN AMB WOMAN—A MISF, NO LS!—GLORIFIED ON THE BIG SCREEN, LET ALONE ONE SO YOUNG. THE MOVIE SEEMED LIKE A VALENTE ADDRSED TO A GENERATN OF PREC GIRLS, SO BELOVED THAT EVEN RYR’S 2001 ARRT FOR SHOPLIFTG MA HER SOMETHG OF A FOLK HERO THEIR EY—EVEN AS SHE WAS LARGELY SHUNNED BY THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY. (“IT’S VERY, VERY SAD THAT SHE’S HAD THOSE MISSG YEARS HER REER, I HAVE TO SAY,” ARMSTRONG SAID OF RYR, WHO WAS ABSENT OM THE SPOTLIGHT FOR YEARS BEFORE LANDG ANOTHER H WH NETFLIX’S STRANGER THGS. “I THK I’M ALLOWED TO SAY THAT WHOUT BEG TOO HURTFUL. AND ’S GREAT TO SEE THAT SHE’S BACK.”)BOTH ARMSTRONG AND SARANDON, WHO PLAYED JO’S FEMIST MOTHER, MARMEE, ARE ED TO HEARG OM DIE-HARD LTLE WOMEN FANS. PERHAPS THE FILM STILL STRIK SUCH A CHORD BEE, AS SARANDON POTED OUT A RECENT NVERSATN, ’S ABOUT YOUNG WOMEN CIDG THEIR FAT A WORLD OF LIMED OPTNS—A NARRATIVE THAT’S AS ALLURG AS IS RARELY TOLD. (SARANDON HERSELF PHED TO MAKE THE FILM AS REALISTIC AS POSSIBLE, FOR TO SHOW “DIRTY PETTIATS” AND REAL EVINCE OF THE MARCH FAY’S FANCIAL STGGL.) THOUGH “MORE AND MORE THGS ARE OPEN TO YOU NOW,” SHE SAID, THE QUTNS RAISED BY THE NOVEL-TURNED-FILM REMA RELEVANT AS EVER: WHO AM I? HOW DO I RISE ABOVE THE LIMS OF GENR AND CLASS TO ACHIEVE MY POTENTIAL, AND BALANCE THE OBLIGATNS OF FAY LIFE WH THE SIRE FOR SOMETHG MORE? OR, AS THE WRY SAN CHEEVER—THOR OF A 2010 BGRAPHY OF ALTT—PUT : “THE PRSG THG ABOUT LTLE WOMEN IS HOW LTLE HAS CHANGED.”EVEN DIVORCED OM RYR’S PERFORMANCE, OR THE WIR NTEXT OF THE STORY, JO IS FASCATG. SHE’S A MS OF NTRADICTNS THAT BLEND TO FORM ONE OF THE MOST HONT AND PLEX HERO LERATURE—A “LOSTAR,” CHEEVER’S WORDS. SHE STUNS EVERYONE BY SELLG HER HAIR—HER “ONE BETY!”—TO HELP PAY FOR MARMEE’S TRIP TO VIS THEIR ILL FATHER, A CHAPLA THE UNN ARMY. DURG A FD WH AMY, SHE GETS PARALYZED WH SHOCK WHEN HER YOUNGT SISTER FALLS THROUGH SOME TH ICE—AND RATHER THAN IMMEDIATELY PLUNGG AFTER HER, JO NEARLY LEAV AMY TO DROWN. MOST UNFIVABLY TO GENERATNS OF REARS, JO ALSO WALKS AWAY OM WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A FANTASY LIFE WH LRIE, THE WEALTHIT, DREAMIT BOY NEXT DOOR—BEE SHE’S NOT LOVE WH HIM.IN SOME WAYS, CHEEVER SUGGTED, LTLE WOMEN’S POWER WAS A HISTORIL ACCINT. ALTT WASN’T VIEWED THE SAME PETIVE LIGHT AS HER MALE NTEMPORARI, WHICH ALLOWED HER TO WRE HONTLY—AND WH A LICENSE TO EXPLORE JO’S DARK FEELGS. “THE DARKNS IS ALWAYS THE HARST PART TO WRE. AND ALTT JT GOT ,” SHE SAID. THAT QUALY MAK JO NOT JT SPIRG, BUT DANGERO—A REBEL, A UNTERPOT TO THOSE MANDG THAT WOMEN BE LADYLIKE AND PRETTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF PLEASG MEN. JO REJECTED LRIE’S MARRIAGE PROPOSAL BEE SHE DIDN’T RE TO PLEASE HIM—SHE WANTED TO BE EE TO SEE THE WORLD AND EXPERIENCE FOR HERSELF. SHE WANTED TO BE LRIE.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONWONA RYR, TRI ALVARADO, KIRSTEN DUNST, SAN SARANDON AND CLAIRE DAN 1994.FROM COLUMBIA/EVERETT COLLECTN.IN A RATHER JO-LIKE MOVE, MAYA HAWKE, THE 19-YEAR-OLD DGHTER OF UMA THURMAN AND ETHAN HAWKE, DROPPED OUT OF JUILLIARD TO TAKE THE PART THE UPG PBS MISERI. (THE TONY NSERVATORY WOULD NOT ALLOW HAWKE TO BE TWO WEEKS LATE FOR THE START OF TERM ORR TO SHOOT LTLE WOMEN.) HER FNS FOR THE ROLE DIDN’T STOP THERE: OVER THREE ENJOYABLE HOURS, HAWKE THOROUGHLY CHANNELS JO, LIKE RYR BEFORE HER—BUT GIV HER AN EARTHY EDGE AS WELL. SHE’S GOT THE DIE-OL CHARISMA OF HER LEAGE AND A ROOKIE’S LACK OF SELF-NSCNS.HAWKE ALSO DID HER HOMEWORK BEFORE THE SHOOT, REARCHG THE TIME PERD AND THE TRANSCENNTALIST MOVEMENT THAT LKED ALTT TO OTHER LERARY GIANTS SUCH AS RALPH WALDO EMERSON AND HENRY DAVID THORE. THE MARCH, THE ACTRS SAID AN TERVIEW, ARE A MUCH MORE NSERVATIVE VERSN OF ALTT’S ACTUAL PARENTS: AMOS BRONSON ALTT, AN TOR, TRANSCENNTALIST, AND ABOLNIST; AND HER MOTHER, ABIGAIL, A SOCIAL WORKER WHO HELPED BRONSON HI FUGIVE SLAV ALONG THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD.“I WAS ALWAYS TERTED HER REBELLN AND HER DISREGARD FOR NVENTN. I THK SO MANY TIM PEOPLE GET CRED FOR BEG REBELS AND FOR BEG DIFFERENT AND FOR BREAKG L, WHEN REALLY THEY’RE NOT BREAKG THEM,” HAWKE SAID. JO, HOWEVER, HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO BE UNNVENTNAL—AND SO, PERHAPS, DID ALTT, WHO PULLED A REBEL MOVE BY BREAKG ADOLCENT HEARTS AND HAVG JO SPURN LRIE, ACRDG TO CHEEVER’S BOOK. “GIRLS WRE TO ASK WHO THE LTLE WOMEN MARRY, AS IF THAT WAS THE ONLY AIM AND END OF A WOMAN’S LIFE,” ALTT WROTE HER JOURNAL AFTER THE PUBLITN OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF LTLE WOMEN. “I WON’T MARRY JO TO LRIE TO PLEASE ANYONE.”FROM AMIA TO AN UPG GRAPHIC-NOVEL RETELLG OF THE STORY, REARS HAVE OFTEN ASSERTED THAT JO—WHO SPEAKS REPEATEDLY ABOUT WANTG TO BE A MAN—IS GAY. BUT MASTERPIECE SCREENWRER HEIDI THOMAS, HOWEVER, THKS THAT ISN’T QUE RIGHT: “WHEN JO SAYS, ‘I WISH I WAS A MAN,’ WHAT SHE’S SAYG IS, ‘I WISH I WAS EE. I WISH I WAS EE TO CHOOSE. I WISH I WAS EE TO TRAVEL. I WISH I WAS EE NOT TO WEAR LAYERS AND LAYERS OF PETTIATS AND DRS UP ALL THE TIME.’”HAWKE AGRE. “THE REAL STORY,” SHE SAID, “IS OF A WOMAN WHO TOTALLY BREAKS THE SOCIETAL NORMS, AND NEVER GETS MARRIED AND REMAS PENNT HER WHOLE LIFE”—WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ALTT HERSELF. DUE TO CULTURAL PRSURE, THOUGH, THE THOR ULTIMATELY HAD TO GIVE JO A HBAND ON THE PAGE.SO SHE DID, THE FORM OF PROFSOR BHAER—THE GERMAN AMIC WHOM JO EVENTUALLY MARRI, AN UNNVENTNAL, MIDDLE-AGED, MPLED MAN WHO IS HER TELLECTUAL EQUAL. THE TWO WELE TWO SONS AND OPEN A PROGRSIVE SCHOOL FOR BOYS, STALLG JO’S PLANS FOR LERARY STARDOM. LTLE WOMEN’S LAST PAG FLASH FORWARD TO JO AND HER SISTERS CHEERFULLY DISCSG THE WAYS WHICH THEIR LIV HAVEN’T TURNED OUT AS THEY EXPECTED: “I HAVEN’T GIVEN UP THE HOPE THAT I MAY WRE A GOOD BOOK YET, BUT I N WA, AND I’M SURE WILL BE ALL THE BETTER FOR SUCH EXPERIENC,” SHE CLAR.SUCH IS THE REALY OF BOOK JO’S SUATN; SHE MT POSTPONE HER CREATIVE PURSUS TO HOLD DOWN THE FORT, A BTERSWEET AND STRIKGLY NTEMPORARY ENDG. MEANWHILE, MOVIE JO, AS PORTRAYED BY RYR, ENDS ON A HIGH NOTE OF POST-FEMIST WISH FULFILLMENT, WH THE DOUBLE TRIUMPHS OF PUBLISHG HER MASTERPIECE NOVEL AND FDG MR. RIGHT BHAER (GABRIEL BYRNE).MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONTHE MASTERPIECE SERI, HOWEVER, STAYS TE TO ALTT’S POIGNANT ORIGAL FALE. WHEN THOMAS WROTE THE LAST SCENE, SHE BEGAN TO CRY, THKG: THAT’S ACTUALLY THE MSAGE OF LTLE WOMEN. IT’S ABOUT EMBRACG IMPERFECTN. AND SOMETIM GOOD ENOUGH IS GOOD ENOUGH.MONTHS LATER, THOMAS SCREENED THE FAL CUT FOR HER HBAND AND SON. THEIR RPONSE WOULD GIVE ARMSTRONG A WARM FLASH OF REGNN: AFTER WATCHG MASTERPIECE’S LTLE WOMEN, SHE SAID, THE THOMAS MEN “WERE ABSOLUTE PIEC. THEY ULDN’T STOP CRYG. IT WAS A BIG MOMENT.”IMAGARY WISH LIST: ANNA KARENA1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONKEYSTONE PICTUR USA / ALAMY STOCK PHOTONILA PAGETT AS ANNA KARENAANNA KARENA HAS BEEN PORTRAYED BY MANY ACTRS OVER THE YEARS. HERE, NILA PAGETT STARS A BBC TWO DRAMATISATN OM 1976.ER CARLSON

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