Happy Bunny Day!
If you’re hanging out at home with family and friends and looking for a ‘bunny of a film,’ I recommend Miss Potter, starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor.
It wasn’t a big box office hit in 2006, and I haven’t seen it on premium channels much, either. That’s why I bought the DVD.
I love it that much.
It tells the story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children’s book, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” and her quest for personal independence and publication at the turn of the century — no small achievement for a female in 1902.
She is assisted by rookie editor Norman Warne (McGregor), who publishes her books and becomes much more than a business colleague.
Their growing relationship is not happy news to everyone, and the movie tells the tale with old-world charm and romance, for which I am a sucker. I think you will like it, too. It is Easter, after all…
Enjoy the sweetness.
Let’s make a deal
I finished reading a great book today on the plane — a non-fiction, history book even.
I know, right?
It tells the true story of the more than 100 American heiresses who traded money for marriage – and a nifty title in Britain — around the turn of the century.
Sound just like Lady Grantham, doesn’t it?
The real life stories, as told by Gail MacColl and Carol Wallace, are no less entertaining and compelling. Perhaps that’s why it doesn’t feel one bit like a high school history class.
I was even inspired to order The Glitter and the Gold, a first-hand account of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, who married the ninth Duke of Marlborough in 1895. It’s considered to be one of the best accounts of the ‘aristocratic life.’
Sign me up.
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