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Still dithering about what doll dress to do next, so I spent the past few days cutting out some new patterns and watching TV instead. Believe it or not, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights was actually a good movie. It reminded me a lot of Strictly Ballroom. And it's set in the 50's, so pretty clothes were involved, and Romola Garai was in it, which is why I gave it a go in the first place. It was really very sweet, and I think if they'd have taken out the Dirty Dancing connection, i.e. the title and Patrick Swayze in a cheesy bit part, it could have stood on it's own and gotten some more respect.

I can't believe they're making ANOTHER Queen Elizabeth I movie. A sequel to the 1998 Cate Blanchett one no less. My first thought was "Yay! Costumes!" but my second thought was "Omigod I'm going to have to sit through another one of these?" I must have seen at least five different biopics of her in the past year or so. And all of them terrible. The one on Masterpiece Theatre was probably the best, but still. They're all so poorly written and acted. Everybody is so hung up on 'she's a woman!' Get over it! You write women the same way you write men, there's no great enigma there. Nobody ever said about Henry VIII 'he's a man! And how does his being a man affect his being a king? How does he reconcile the two?' It's all such idiocy. If they'd stop judging her as a woman and start looking at her as a person, I think they'd finally be able to make a good version of her story.

And I nearly had a coronary the other day when I found out the local library does not have either The Cut of Women's Clothes by Norah Waugh OR Costume in Detail by Nancy Bradfield. WTF??? There are at least 30 libraries in this system, and not one has even one copy? Even the tiny library back in Green Bay had them! They're classics! I need them! And they're out of print! I'll have to do inter-library loans whenever I need them. Oy.

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Everybody is so hung up on 'she's a woman!' Get over it! You write women the same way you write men, there's no great enigma there. Nobody ever said about Henry VIII 'he's a man! And how does his being a man affect his being a king? How does he reconcile the two?' It's all such idiocy. If they'd stop judging her as a woman and start looking at her as a person, I think they'd finally be able to make a good version of her story.

You are my hero. I think that ALL THE TIME.

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I knew I wasn't the only one!