Bridget Jones Turns 50
…Or author Helen Fielding does, at any rate. She was born on this day in 1959.She must weigh 15 stone by now. Jones, that is, not Fielding.
Biographies
Chappaquiddick Revisited
“You just knew it would never be the same again. It didn’t mean he couldn’t have a life in public service, but it wouldn’t be a charmed life. It was going to be different.”The Boston Globe is running an excellent multi-part series on Ted Kennedy, apparently prompted by Kennedy’s poor health.
Happy Birthday, Oregon
Happy 150th birthday to Oregon, my home state.You were born on 14 February 1859 — in the same year as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Billy the Kid.
A Pair of Aces
We don’t care who was born first. Happy 200th birthday, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. You studs.
“Old Dog Pulls a New Trick”
“Having just turned 10, a Sussex spaniel called Stump became the oldest best in show winner at the Westminster Kennel Club, ending his retirement last week and taking the big prize Tuesday night.”ABC News has the story.Isn’t that kind of like a 70-year-old winning the Miss America pageant?
Lordy, Birdie, Uh, Jive, Look Who’s 40 and 30 and 45
Jennifer Aniston turns 40 today.And Brandy “Moesha” Norwood turns 30.And Sarah Palin turns, even if it’s not a round number, 45.
Bar Refaeli is the 2009 Sports Illustrated Cover Girl
She’s the Israeli supermodel who’s been dating actor Leonardo DiCaprio since 2006.The issue is due out in a few days, but SI already has posted its online edition, including slightly comical video of Refaeli rolling in the surf.Last year’s cover model was Marisa Miller.
Round Rapping at the 2009 Grammys
What to wear when you’re nine months pregnant and still performing at the Grammys? Rapper M.I.A. has two ideas.
“I had this expectation that my career would be one in which I didn’t crash an airplane”
Flight 1549 as experienced by the captain and the flight crew.
We Stand Corrected on Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy
A sharp-eyed Who2 reader writes: