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...cold harridan some histories used to portray, she was deeply emotional, a supremely complex and contradictory woman. She was also, even as legend has it, probably a virgin. Highly sexual, she was yet terrified of sex, which in her experience was associated with the death of her mother, Anne Boleyn, and of many of those she loved. "I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married," she once said. Paradoxically she was, in her own way, a very feminine woman who could go into a swoon on bad news...
...written by a different author, and each is independent of the others. But they blend perfectly. CBS and the BBC are not content to let history rest: CBS is currently dickering for the BBC series that stars Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's daughter by Anne Boleyn. Taken together, the two series constitute a sort of Tudor One Man's Family, elegant television viewing and a painless way to learn some history. -Katie Kelly
Repairing the damage done by Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn has been the subject of five years of discussions by the Joint Commission on Roman Catholic-Anglican Relations in the United States. On the international level, comparable deliberations are going on between the Vatican and the Anglican Commission. "Full communion and organic union" are the goals declared in a document released by the Episcopal Church Center in New York City last May 4, and Most Rev. Charles H. Helmsing, Catholic bishop of Kansas City St. Joseph, Mo., states emphatically: "We must bring about the union of the Anglican and Roman...
...last picture, Anne of the Thousand Days, was virtually stolen by young Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn. This time out, Richard Burton was rehearsing an episode for next season's Here's Lucy TV series, and as he told the story, it was "terrible to work with two big stars" like Lucille Ball and his wife Elizabeth Tayor. "Give me back the unknowns," he groaned. Still it is hard to believe that Burton could be totally upstaged while playing−as he does on Lucy's show−a Shakespeare-spouting plumber...
...King is mad!" almost redeems the whole overblown epic. Yet it is Bujold's very sexuality that makes her question the validity of her role as a chaste but tantalizing nymphet in the early scenes. "I don't believe that a girl like Anne Boleyn and a man like Henry can be all that time without touching each other," she says. "I am sure there was heavy petting going...