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Thursday, September 27, 2001

I watched a bit of "The Prince & the Pauper" on TV earlier this avo...
It looked pretty cool but I didn't want to sit in front of TV all day, also my flatmate came home from work sick...
It was good - I've just had a Google about it an find it's the 1937 version...
I find out it was written by Mark Twain - thank God it seemed to have mainly English actors though...

This version (there's a 1977 one starring Charlton Heston that doesn't get very good reviews)
stars Errol Flynn. (Very cool dude at the time, but appears to have lost the plot later in life...)

I thought his accent sounded strangly Kiwi like (In a very old fashioned way - Like Pete Sinclair or Selwyn Toogood used to sound)
They were all English - but he didn't sound English...
And I find out - sure enough, Errol Flynn was born in Tasmania...

He grew up in Striner town (You don't know what Strine is? - I mean Sydney)
and even lived in PNG for a while...
( Read here http://www.blockbuster.com/bb/person/details/0,4487,BIO-P+90030,00.html? )

I'd like to watch the movie some time.... just not today...
The real story looks kinda different...
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon42.html
http://tudorhistory.org/edward/
And of course here's the Official Tudor homepage...
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page11.asp

11 May 2003 (yes, that's right unfortunately they've hired a web designer who has gone against the great advice from W3: "Cool URIs don't change" and to using URIs which are meaningful... it *used* to be called http://www.royal.gov.uk/history/tudor.htm - what the heck was wrong with that ? - short of changing it to /history/tudor/ it couldn't have been much better, but now it's much much worse) :-(

posted by John 14:53

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