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Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 3:59 PM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Elizabeth reviews
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In a message dated 10/12/2007 9:03:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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the story of the bastard monarch
Yikes! My apologies for not editing the previous 2 posts. I forgot that
this particular e-mail client renders links as spelled out URLs when one
chooses send as text. Here I didn't want to complicate member
e-mailboxes by sending as HTML and I ended up cluttering the messages
with URLs. Ah
Hope Greenberg wrote:
Judging by the picture that accompanies the article (a heavy purple
moire gown cut beautifully but lacking any decoration), the reviewer is
spot-on. The costumes are certainly fabulous. Historically
accuratewell...what do we expect??
I expect some escapist
Desson Thomson of the Washington Post has even more to say about the use
of costumes in 'Elizabeth':
Just in time for Halloween, Elizabeth: The Golden Age is here to tell
us that evoking England
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/United+Kingdom?tid=informline's
greatest queen is
Just saw Manohla Dargis's review of 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' in the
New York Times. Here's a sample:
A kitsch extravaganza aquiver with trembling bosoms, booming guns and
wild energy, “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”
http://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=335198inline=nyt_ttl
On Friday 12 October 2007, Hope Greenberg wrote:
[snip]
Judging by the picture that accompanies the article (a heavy purple
moire gown cut beautifully but lacking any decoration), the reviewer is
spot-on. The costumes are certainly fabulous. Historically
accuratewell...what do we expect??
In a message dated 10/12/2007 9:03:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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the story of the bastard monarch
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It was my impression the Ann and Henry were actually married when Liz was
conceived, and that cutting someone's head off for supposed adultery is
I think the question of her illegitimacy has to do with the fact that he could
have still been legally married to Katherine of Aragon when he married Anne.
When the Pope wouldn't declare the marriage void, he took over the English
church and declared it void himself. Many didn't see that as a
In the image I saw, it almost looked like it is a shot fabric with what could
be black and blue... definitely black. You can see that in the skirt. But... it
probably IS a rather later color of purple based on the rest of the costuming
in the movie.
But... it won't matter. I am sure I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/12/2007 9:03:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the story of the bastard monarch
*
It was my impression the Ann and Henry were actually married when Liz was
conceived, and that cutting someone's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/12/2007 9:03:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the story of the bastard monarch
*
It was my impression the Ann and Henry were actually married when Liz was
conceived, and that cutting someone's
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