Sunday, March 04, 2007
I'm Henry the 8th I Am
Or, at least, I feel like I've been slightly sick since he was in office : - ) But, less and less so. Yesterday I finally took the 'just in case' perscription and (hopefully) nuked my ailment with a one-two-three bombardment of antibiotics... Last weekend, or last century, I doubled up on Henry the 8th, taking in the 1936 classic "Private Lives of Henry VIII," wherein Charles Laughton was said to win his Best Actor Oscar by "chewing mutton and scenery." "Private Lives" begins with the decapitation of Henry's second wife Anne Boelyn - that's where "Anne of a Thousand Days ended - the latter film, from 1969, focused on the relationship between Henry and Anne and tracks the emotional, sexual, and political balance of power in this relationship. Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold truly inhabit the characters, and I think the film was probably underappreciated against the backdrop of the social upheaval that was the late 60s.
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