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I tried the "which siren of the silver screen are you?" quiz and got someone so unexpected that I gasped and went away. Marilyn Monroe. Now I ask you - am I anything like her? I bet Louise Brooks wasn't one of the choices. I could have lived with Katharine Hepburn as my result. Honestly!

So I went to something more... predictable. Maybe I was in the mood after reading 3jane's new Jack/Norrington story last night.


You belong with Johnny Depp! You dig the tortured
pretty boy look and great body. Enjoy his fun
and adventurous personality, hot looks, and
every now and then english accent.


What hot guy do you belong with?
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By some oversight it seems that Lex Luthor wasn't on this particular list. Neither was Aragorn son of Arathorn.

Gossip...

I looked at the MSN celebrity gossip page. Heh. Why do I do that? The lead article about Britney Spears said she might sue over an article that said she and her girlfriends rented porn flicks and giggled over them. Leaving me thinking: what's wrong with that? Also said they were trying to defuse gossip about the famous same-sex kiss with Madonna, but wasn't that the whole point - to get people talking? Heaven forbid a career. I wouldn't even know who she was if it weren't for the tabloid gossip.

And it says they're saying that "Cold Mountain" is being snubbed by the Oscars because it wasn't filmed in the U.S. But The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring wasn't filmed in the U.S. either and it has eleven nominations.... I may not have much respect for the Oscars, but I don't see the logic there.

Anyway, I don't see a "failure to be nominated" as "being snubbed", unless seen with a very subjective eye. It's more like "not making the grade", whether it deserved to or not.

Clothar the Frank...

I went to a reading this evening of the novel "Clothar the Frank" by the author, Jack Whyte.

I loved it.

He read from a chapter in which Clothar, at the age of ten, is told the 'truth' about his parentage - a situation that always reminds me of Dorothy Dunnett and her obscurely-fathered heroes. His approach to the Athurian legend is to take the myth and rationalize it without magic and with a strong foundation in actual history. I like the idea.

Now I want to rush out and get - and read - all his books. Of course it helped that he reads very well, and spoke interestingly about his research and his motives. A clever and articulate man with a pleasant Scottish accent.

I want to grow up to be just like him.