Comments on: Some recommended viewing from our readers

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:17:52 +0000

@Karl Stagno Navarra – we need the link. Moderator, can you check, please?

[Moderator – It’s there now.]

By: Karl Stagno-Navarra

Karl Stagno-Navarra — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:44:37 +0000

Take a look at this website

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:40:02 +0000

@ ??Question??

You mean you saw The Poodle and The Peacock having din-dins here? –

http://www.thefurandfeatherinn.co.uk/

By: sisi

sisi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:34:54 +0000

@ Meerkat

May I refer you to King Lear:

“a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” or something to that effect.

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:21:46 +0000

So Sisi, you’d be pleased to know that a film is planned on Coco Chanel and it will star Audrey Tautou ;-)

Re what ER I would say to our parliamentarians…

She would have sent them packing to the Globe Theatre to see the play Richard III…you know there’s the famous line “Off with his head!”

By: ?? Question ??

?? Question ?? — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:19:31 +0000

I have a question to the MLP leadership?

Do you think it is ethically acceptable that while there is a campaign going on between contenders for the MLP leadership, the Secretary general of the MLP, Jason Micallef meet with one of the contenders Joseph Muscat for dinner with the rest of the families in a 5 star luxury hotel in Ghajn Tuffieha?

I think that while there is the campaign going on, the Secretary General should refrain from socialising individually. This might give a wrong impression. Or is it true then, that the Secretary general has already annointed Joseph Muscat?

An explanation is eagerly awaited.

By: sisi

sisi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:41:18 +0000

@ Meerkat:
I’m tempted to say Coco Chanel.
Nope – neither one of the two.

Reading books about the Tudor period, and also about the education of Elizabeth the first (she was extremely educated – which is why she was able to outwit her councillers/advisors/accusers) makes me wonder what she would have made of a few of our parliamentarians.

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:52:53 +0000

Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser have written excellent books about the Tudor period.

As for films, I prefer the first Kapur movie ‘Elizabeth’ (1998) though it takes many dramatic licenses…the storytelling is sheer joy.

For my money, though, the BBC series Elizabeth R (1971)starring Glenda Jackson is the definitive take on that era.

By: chrissie

chrissie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:41:52 +0000

I love the tudors. Have read alot of factual books as well as fiction on them. Anne Boleyn was always one of my favourite characters. Unfortunately I hated The Other Boleyn Girl (the movie not the book which was wonderful) Eric Bana – dead from the neck up with one expression all through the show and Natalie Portman had no charisma. Awful! The TV Series The Tudors was better even if it was also slightly flawed in facts.
Sorry girls!
Pierce Brosnan for me every time!

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:40:45 +0000

@ Sisi

Is your nick in honour of Sissi (Elizabeth of Austria) or Elizabeth I?