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...movie may give British political scholars fits, because Lord Melbourne, the 58-year-old Prime Minister who coached Victoria in politics and queenly affairs, is played here by the dashing and quite youthful Paul Bettany, excising 20 years and at least as many pounds from Lord M.'s real person. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...mark of something written expressly for Broadbent by Fellowes, but in Lytton Strachey's biography Queen Victoria, and again in Christopher Hibbert's, you'll find that scene, told exactly as it is onscreen. The only difference is that Blunt's Victoria doesn't burst into tears as the real princess apparently did; the movie heroine has more backbone...
...should recommend you find one to play it with you, rather than for you." He is as noble and upright as anything out of a Jane Austen novel - a savior, in short. We've grown so fond of Blunt's Victoria that we just want her to have a real friend, benefits and all. We may be looking at Victoria and Albert through rose-colored glasses, but this love story is a touching romantic confection, a fine way to follow up your figgy pudding. Long live Queen Emily...
...Microsoft's tactics have also stifled the browser market, making innovation difficult. But this could change now that Microsoft's competitors will have greater access to consumers. New features and applications are always being introduced in the mobile-computing market, for example, where no dominant operating system exists. "With real browser choice, we expect innovation to take off," says Graham Taylor, the chief executive of OFE. (See pictures of Microsoft's Project Natal in action...
...real breeding ground for UFO believers seems to be Tinseltown. Forget about the films: just check out the laundry list of celebrities who practice Scientology, or talk to Dan Aykroyd, who signed on as the "Hollywood consultant" for the Mutual UFO Network, one of the oldest and largest organizations of UFO investigations in the U.S. Aykroyd maintains that alien visitors are "coming and going like taxis." Not all are convinced - Demi Moore, a native of Roswell, says she never heard about the famous "landing" as a child. But considering how little has so far been made public - most...