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COSTUME DRAMAS There couldn't be two more different movies than the spring releases Matrix Reloaded and Down with Love. Or could there? Matrix achieves its cool look partly with its retro-futuristic clothes. Is Keanu Reeves' Neo from the future or from some severe, high-collared Edwardian past? In Love, Renee Zellweger's chic period ensembles look so very fresh. "The early '60s is the last time clothes were modern," says Love's costume designer, Daniel Orlandi. "Colorful, simple and architectural." So what will the future look like? Apparently, it depends on which past you like best...
...when PBS aired the Forsyte Saga--a 26-part Victorian-Edwardian mini-series based on John Galsworthy's novels--it was revolutionary. Years before The Sopranos, it showed Americans that TV could tell stories as novels do. Its success led PBS to create Masterpiece Theatre--it was the soap that launched a thousand bustles. To say that remaking the show now is not quite so daring is kind. To be unkind--and honest--it only bolsters the criticism that PBS these days is redundant and irrelevant...
...Telegraph also reported that the Old Edwardian Boat Club of South Africa, which fell to the Crimson in the Ladies’ Plate semifinals, needed to stage their own version of “The Full Monty” in front of family and friends to raise funding for Henley...
...Hawthorne Country House, tel: (64-6) 878-0035, in Hawke's Bay, a premier winegrowing region, makes the perfect base for a wine education tour. Only a short drive from nearly 40 vineyards, the rambling Edwardian mansion features creaking floors, leaded lights and neatly tended gardens complete with croquet hoops and bunnies. The ample verandas of the five well-appointed rooms are ideal for enjoying bottled souvenirs of a day spent sampling the local vintages...
...life was the stuff of contemporary legends: His studies of the auroras, his creation of a cannon which could fire a hundred kilometers and his travels to exotic locales like Egypt, Russia and Japan helped propel him to the forefront of European science at the end of the Edwardian age. In his spare time, he even found a financially viable procedure to extract nitrogen from the air for use in fertilizer. He eventually presented a theory—proven years after his lonely death—that the origin of the beautiful waves of the borealis were rooted...