The Bull of Anglesey Returns!

I've been watching (in what very little free time I have right now--rehearsal for Ore has turned into a full-time job) the '70s BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII. I remember watching this as a child with my Mom when they reran it on PBS--the only scene that sticks in my head was Catherine Howard saying "Me? The King wants to see me?" The ( Read more... )

Inspired by the clips I saw on the Oscars, I Netflixed Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Holy crap, Clive Owen is WHITE hot in this movie. Damn. He is amazingly hot in this--I seriously want to have his children right now. I liked Closer a lot but never saw him as particularly attractive but the combination of his tan, his tight little doublets, his ( Read more... )

I just upgraded my cable package to get Showtime (quite a step for me--I never get the premium channels, that's what Netflix is for). Showtime is premiering a new series in April called The Tudors--it's about Henry VIII mainly. They're saturating the subways with print ads that make it look quite fun--they're trying to market it as a kind of ( Read more... )

So I read The Other Boleyn Girl this weekend. It's about Mary Boleyn, sister to Anne (most sources I've checked seem to indicate she was older than Anne, but the book makes her a few years younger)--she was also Henry VIII's mistress after Bessie Blount and before he was involved with Anne. Mary was also rumored to be Francois I's mistress (both ( Read more... )