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And so, when Helen Fielding's smash hit "Bridget Jones's Diary" stormed onto the market in the mid-'90s, I was prepared. Just as I knew exactly where and when I would buy my copy, I also knew precisely where I would put it (anchored safely behind Germaine Greer...
Perching on a window seat to wait, I looked around the room at Fielding's collected fans. And what I saw changed me - and my bookshelf - forever. There were septuagenarians, teenagers and thirty-somethings. Women who looked like they'd just ducked out of a board meeting for an hour...
Now that Fielding's book is a new movie (and the movie is wonderful, by the way), the debate over Bridget Jones will begin again. The same critics who savaged the book will call her celluloid incarnation flighty, or pathetic, or destructive to the cause of feminism. And I will...
Welcome to the world of Bridget Jones, a neurotic 32-year-old publishing lackey whose life would be complete if she could only reduce the circumference of her thighs by three inches (1.5 inches each), visit the gym three times a week (not merely to buy a sandwich) and form...
Ultimately, the heart of Bridget Jones’s Diary is Zellweger. Despite all the controversy concerning the casting of the petite Texan as the British Bridget (London’s Evening Standard declared the decision an act of “clunking, Hollywood idiocy,” noting that...