Henry the Eighth
To six wives was wedded.
One died, one survived,
Two divorced, two beheaded.
(Thank you, Louisa May Alcott!)
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Henry the Eighth
To six wives was wedded.
One died, one survived,
Two divorced, two beheaded.
(Thank you, Louisa May Alcott!)
Cereal:
Hec, what is this "Buffistarawk"?
Hec, what is this "Buffistarawk"?
Insent to your profile addy.
So, what comes between Elizabethan and Georgian?
James became king after Elizabeth, right? Mary, Queen of Scots' son. So Elizabeth was the last of the Tudors, and he was part of the Stuart family. He was king of Scotland before he inherited the English throne.
Otherwise known in fashion as the Queer Eye for the Scots Guy era.
I do not know this "Collide," but setting a period movie's trailer to non-period music smacks of A Knight's Tale.
ETA: I just went and listened to Collide, and yeah, I've heard that but relegated it to unmemorable. Weird weird weird choice.
David, would you send me the buffistarawk stuff too?
And me? Ta ever so, I hate being extra-loop.
Me too? Pretty please?
I have to admit -- I'm curious about this offboard buffista stuff.
You can listen to a snippet of "Collide" from Amazon here: [link] It's a cute little inoffensive pop song but oy, so wrong for an Austen film.
Since we were talking about the cinematic depiction of British monarch:
Trailer for Libertine, [link] where John Malkovich plays Charles II. So, both Sam Neill and John Malkovich played the same king. This reminds me of the game I used to play with some online pals, in which one would give the names of two actors who have played the same character as the clue, and the rest of us would have to guess which role. So, "Cate Blanchett and Bette Davis" = Elizabeth, and "Winona Ryder and Katharine Hepburn" = Jo March, and so forth. It was fun, then people started cheating and looking things up in IMDb. Ah, well.
The reviews of P&P have been interesting -- at least one rave (from Salon), but the Jane Austen Society was on NPR this morning just bashing it. One English teacher said "If a student decided to watch this movie instead of reading the book, they'd fail the exam."