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...truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of wife.” This statement, from Jane Austen??s Pride and Prejudice, launches James D. Watson’s new memoir, Genes, Girls, and Gamow, which picks up where The Double Helix, his first memoir, left off. Although the title suggests a tripartite focus, the “girls” portion certainly dominates the book and much of the reader’s attention is focused on Watson’s pursuit of a wife from...
...amusing twist of intertextuality, Colin Firth, known simply as a wet T-shirt to American Austen princesses, is delicious as Darcy. Firth, having previously played Austen??s Darcy in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice television miniseries, returns to romantic hero-dom after playing the discarded husband in both The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love. He silently observes Bridget’s liaisons with the deceptive “Cleave,” slowly revealing his growing tenderness for the girl, until he can take no more. Granted, it’s a role that...