I have a Google alert set up for “Edward II,” and though I get some things of interest that way, I also get a lot of worthless alerts, mostly to shopping sites. So when I saw my alert today, I thought at first it was another shopping alert. Then I looked closer and gave a […]
Three Cheers for the BBC! Read More »
So I’ve halfway figured out the book video trailer stuff now. Here’s the result for The Traitor’s Wife. If you’re interested in doing one yourself, there’s some very helpful information here.
I went to have my eyes examined the other day and was greeted with the usual joy in the optometry department, since my prescription isn’t the lenses-in-one-hour type but a high-powered one that sets my wallet to groaning. One of the many reasons I’ve never been a fan of romance novels is because (if the
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This weekend I saw the Sofia Coppola movie Marie Antoinette. An interesting movie, but all in all a disappointment. Visually, this is a gorgeous movie–beautiful interior and exterior shots and exquisite costuming. Even the various yippy little dogs that chew the scenery (and the furniture) seem to have been chosen very carefully. The use of
I suppose one should feel some sympathy for Mel Gibson, who’d apparently been off the booze for a long time before very spectacularly getting back on it, but nah. Not when he’s operating a car and endangering other people’s lives. Not to mention when he spouts anti-Semitic garbage once he’s arrested. Not to mention his
Brabeheart . . . Bradeheart . . . Gimme minute, Offishur . . . Braveheart! Read More »
The other night, my husband channel-surfed and landed on Braveheart, which I missed seeing at the time it was released (a) because it wasn’t anything that interested me then and (b) because it came out when I was in law school, a time in which I was blissfully oblivious to all around me but the
At Last, I Sit Through Half of Braveheart Read More »