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Salkin Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
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Salkin Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:21:11 -0500
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Hey guys...

Have just seen a movie which I found incredibly funny and moving: "Bridget
Jones's Diary."  For those of you out of the swim of things, it's about an
over-30 "singleton" who is a bit overweight and her attempt to write her
life in her diary for a year; she gets her man, of course - after all this
is a romantic comedy -  but not after all sorts of blind avenues and false
starts.  It reminded me of another film, "Notting Hill;" I looked up the
credits, and sure enough the same guy produced both films, as well as Hugh
Grant being in both.  However I really liked "Notting Hill" because it
featured a character who was disabled - a woman who was in a wheelchair -
who was happily married to an AB guy. It was so cool to me because she was
presented in such a normal, every-day sort of way, not as a heroine or
anything like that.

Now I'm trying to remember any other films in which a disabled person is
perceived as normal as anyone else; can anyone think of any?

                    Kathy S.

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it
consists principally of dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad

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