It was repeat customer day at the floating bookshop. A lovely young woman of eastern descent liked my past recommendations so much she snapped up thrillers by Daniel Silva and Karin Slaughter. A middle-aged woman who had promised to return for a pristine hardcover copy of Sandra Brown's Tough Customer a week ago, finally showed and was lucky enough to find the book waiting for her. And finally, Sheila, who purchased Close to the Edge a while ago, bought a bag o' romance novels, plus James Patterson's Lake House. Thanks, folks.
Congratulations to Will and Kate. What a handsome couple they are. I do not share the enthusiasm for the pomp of the proceedings that the general public does, but I wish them well. They seem like nice kids. Of course, the time of the rule of kings and queens has long passed, but their governance in England advanced western civilization. They were not without sin, but their pluses far outweighed their minuses. And the history of the royal family has inspired so many great films and TV shows: The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), Becket (1964), A Man for All Season (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), to name a few. Is there a better cinematic argument between husband and wife than that between Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, so expertly played by Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn, in The Lion in Winter (Screenplay by James Goldman, based on his play)? Four years earlier O'Toole played a younger Henry II in Becket (Screenplay by Edward Anhalt), arguing not only with his wife, but with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom he had appointed and who was so ably portrayed by Richard Burton. Great stuff.
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