Moviefone has opened voting on its annual Moviegoer Awards. Renee Zellwegger and Colin Firth are nominated for “Revlon’s Sexiest Kiss” for their lovely moments in BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON.
Oh dear. It appears Miss Zellweger and Mr. Firth are in last place currently, probably because there’s no clip of their kiss available. Drats!
The Guardian has an article on an archaeological quest to find Bosworth battlefield, where Richard III met his doom. The article includes a snippet of Jane Austen’s delightfully unscholarly A History of England.
In 1791 the 16-year-old Jane Austen began her mocking account: “NB. There will be very few Dates in this History,” adding “Henry Tudor E. of Richmond as great a villain as ever lived, made a great fuss about getting the Crown and having killed the King at the battle of Bosworth, he succeeded to it.”
A partial and unprejudiced historian, indeed!
The History is also mentioned in an article in the Sun (U.K.) about Yahoo! U.K.’s user-selected website of the year. The British Library’s Turning the Pages site allows users to virtually turn the pages of the manuscript, illustrated by Cassandra Austen.
The first line of Pride and Prejudice was quoted in a Newsday article about this weekend’s !Wedding of the Century! between Miss Elizabeth Bennet Melania Knauss and Mr. Darcy Donald Trump. We grudgingly admit the aptness of the comparison and otherwise find we are unable to care one whit about the event.
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