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with genuine interest.

OK, thank you. Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Yeah.

- I hope you like it.

- Oh, yeah.

Thank you very much.

- That is quite... Thank you. Yeah.

- You're welcome.

Hi, Jim Harper. My dog, Henry IV, and I

were peering in your window this morning.

Yes, wow. That was, that was...

That was unusual.

Yeah. Henry kind of walks me.

- Listen, I love your movie.

- Oh, thank you very much, thank you.

I've actually written three,

and a co-writing credit on another.

Oh, wow, I didn't know that. That's terrific.

Jeez, I wish I could do what you do.

Oh, so do I. And what do you do, Jim?

I teach Shakespeare.

Excuse me. Keith, I'd like you to meet

some of our other English faculty.

This is Ron Jenson, Medieval Literature.

Pleasure. I really love your movie.

Oh, thanks, the movies...

Paul Prentiss, American Lit.

Great to have you here.

Great, thanks a lot.

- Hi, Naomi Watkins, African Literature.

- Nice to meet you, Naomi. I'm Keith.

Clara Foss, fellow writer, resident poet.

Welcome aboard.

Well, that didn't rhyme at all.

I doubt your credentials.

And this is Professor Mary Weldon.

Professor Weldon holds the Bainbridge Chair

in Comparative Literature

and she's about to publish

what will prove to be

- the definitive work on Jane Austen.

- Oh, I'm so sorry.

- You don't like Jane Austen?

- No, no, she's obviously brilliant.

It's just I find it all

a bit trivial, you know?

Really? That's fascinating. How so?

Well, isn't it all, you know,

"Who's going to the ball tonight?

"My corset is askew.

However will I curtsey?"

I'd also like you to meet...

In other words, why should

a 21st century man care

about the obstacles facing

a 19th century woman?

No, that makes me sound like a misogynist.

I love and respect women.

As long as they're not writing.

On the contrary, there are

myriad women writers I adore.

- Can you name one?

- Elaine May.

I'm not familiar with her work.

Oh, she wrote A New Leaf, The Birdcage,

she did an uncredited rewrite on Tootsie.

Movies?

We're talking about literature.

And while you may not think much

of the women writers of that period,

Austen, Woolf, and the Bronte sisters

were artists

who represented

the female empowerment of their age.

Oh, well, forgive me,

but I'm just a little bit tired

of "female empowerment."

Whoa! Battle stations.

Dr Lerner, you must

have an opinion on this?

I have a wife and four daughters.

I have no opinions.

What exactly is

your opinion, Mr Michaels?

- Another glass?

- Thank you so much, that's nice.

It's just, honestly, everything seems to be

about female empowerment nowadays.

You know, any meeting I go

to in Hollywood, someone says,

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