Word: boleyn
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...wrong girl comes along. If this sounds like an upcoming episode of Entourage, then adjust your cultural references back about 500 years and add some tights. The young celeb: Henry VIII. The first wife: Catherine of Aragon. The friends: Cardinal Wolsey and Sir Thomas More. The temptress: Anne Boleyn. Sound familiar...
...being relegated to the Old Kings' club by becoming Hollywood's hunk du jour. The Tudors, the most expensive Showtime series ever, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a svelte and sporty King, starts April 1. A film adaptation of Philippa Gregory's 2002 best-selling historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn, Scarlett Johansson as her sister Mary and Munich's Eric Bana as another hubba-hubba Henry, is due later this year...
...helped establish the infant German cinema as a beacon of sophisticated drama and innovative technique. Kino, the top DVD label for silent films, offers a four-disc sampler of the director's early work, all from 1919 to 1921, including lavish historical dramas (Anna Boleyn), mountain films (The Wildcat, with a very feral Pola Negri) and delightful comedies. Best is The Oyster Princess, "a grotesque in four acts," in which the director sets a pinwheeling series of sight gags in motion like a vaudevillian with his spinning plates. He's not yet working at his Hollywood level...
...tackle "jousting, lute and a minimum of six languages," alongside Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey. Even draped in jewels befitting the portly, much married monarch, "I look nothing like Henry," the lean Match Point star admits. "I have to make him my own." Funny, that's just how Anne Boleyn felt...
...digits instead of five. The reason is that some of the descendant's own genes have been disrupted by the inherited but foreign c-myc DNA. "This approach will certainly help us understand limb development and what can go wrong with it," says Leder. "Why, for example, did Anne Boleyn have six fingers...