J A N E T I L I T Y

Greetings, Internet, and Happy December!  Welcome to the final installment in our Richard Chamberlain month.  Months are now six weeks long, by the way.

Once more, I learned about this one from Mom, who, in addition to making the best pasta fagioli ever, in the history of mankind, is apparently a walking encyclopedia of Richard Chamberlain movies.  (The secret is to use a soup bone.)

Also, Mom, you still need to send me that recipe.

The Woman I Love is a short look at the famous (or infamous, depending on who’s telling it) story of Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII.  They met, they fell in love, they wanted to get married — and what might have been a very ordinary romance was complicated by the fact that Edward was heir to the throne, and then king of, England.  And Wallis was a twice-divorced American commoner, who was still technically married when they met — which is a big deal, you guys.  If you can accept that Lydia Bennett running off with Wickham is a big deal — other than the fact that she is sixteen, and he is apparently into teenagers — then you can accept the fact that Wallis is an American and a commoner and divorced is a huge problem.  Any one of those things would probably cause friction.

(more…)

The Three Musketeers is on of those stories that I don’t really know, I just pretend to on TV.   I there’s Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — which basically sucks all of the tension out of the end of Slumdog Millionaire — and also D’Artangan, who the story is really about (right?).  And I’ve seen the Chris O’Donnell version a couple times, mostly of a giggly girl-night in college, but the story never stuck because about twenty minutes in we’d start making Batman and Robin jokes and try to figure out when Keifer Sutherland was going to turn into a vampire.

Maggots, D'Artagnan. You're eating maggots.

(more…)