Saturday, September 6, 2008

The Other Boleyn Girl

Pretty bleak story about Henry VIII and his alleged trysts with both Anne and Mary Boleyn. In this age of ultrasound and finding out your child's gender months before birth, the anticipation back then was enormous, and the birth of a child could be either joyous or tremendously disappointing, particularly if you are the King waiting for a male heir that never arrives. I've never watched The Tudors on Showtime, but from what I'm told it is a much raunchier take on the same general characters...

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