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the film. the book. the soundtrack. the merchandising (bjones tracksuits in bhs)

anyway, i don't really know anything about it. should i?

― gareth, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's where all ILX slang secretly comes from.

― Tom, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chicklit, like splitting the atom, can be used for evil and good.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hey i just mentioned her on ILM

― maryann, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Grr, argh.

― Nicole, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

all you need to know Gareth is that she started out as a vaguely amusing satire and ended up SETTING THE FEMINIST CAUSE BACK TWENTY YEARS. grr and indeed aargh.

― katie, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The movie made me laugh. Not many other films did last year.

― Jeff W, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought the film was very good.

― PJ Miller, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw about 5 minutes of it on ITV Digital pay-per-view free preview. It looked alright.

― Graham, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i just like the bit where hugh grant and mr. darcy have "a real fight!"

― minna, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm looking fwd to seeing the vid. (i only saw a few mins once while waiting for girl friend to finish clothes shopping). i liked the book, but don't know why it was so succesful. it's moderately funny, but not much better than a lot of chicklit out there.

― Alan T, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Exactly what Katie said, adding in that you can no longer ask for Chardonay with a group of girlfriends without recieving smirks.

― Anna, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's the fault of Footballers' Wives, Anna.

― N., Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone care to explain how it ruined feminism? i don't think bridg blew up in north america quite as big as it did over your way.

― Dave M., Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well by implying that all single women do is obsessively count calories and smoke & drink too much cos they can't get a man. And then when they find the Perfect Man everything is OK.

Chardonnay is just kind of naff these days in general, isn't it? I thought a nice Pinot Grigio was far more the thing.

― Emma, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nothing wrong with a nice chardonnay. and pinot grigot was so 2 years ago. oo, i'm such a bitch.

― Alan T, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I dunno, I was just trying to think of a white wine that wasn't chardonnay without thinking too much about wine which is the reason I feel so crap today. I believe riesling is quite in?

― Emma, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thursday June 20th

Weight: 8st 11lbs good-ish. Cigarettes: 5 (but duty free from holiday, so v.good even if lungs will turn v.bad from Spanish tar). Feminisms set back by 20 years: 1.

Hmm, is bad as consider self to be feminist, but honestly did not think that publication of diary would lead to mass media hype about sad singleton women in 30's. Obv. I am strong, indepandant woman in manner of Chaka Kahn or Destiny's Child, but Shazza says have let down women everywhere by presenting us as man and weight obsessed without any serious thoughts in heads. Was all intended as a joke, as Jude kindly pointed out, but lots of people decided there were people just like me being miserable all over Britain just waiting for their own yummy Mr Darcy. I don't know what to do now. Does fate of nation's women rest in my hands? Would quite like to be feminist campaigner, but perhaps would wear more make-up than Germaine Greer does on the telly. Am v.v.confused.

― Bridget, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(heh and obv can't even SPELL "independent" hahah ;))

― katie, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's v.funny, but are you calling Emma a shazza?

― N., Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, more Katie than Emma.

― N., Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shazza is the name of Bridget's drunken feminist ranting mate. Jude is her other friend.

Someone once phoned me at work thinking I was Helen Fielding. I had to shout 'I DID NOT WRITE BRIDGET JONES DIARY.' down the phone three times before he clicked. Rest of office found it highly entertaining.

― Anna, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh. are so you must be related to TV's Janet Fielding then?

― Alan T, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had to shout 'I DID NOT WRITE BRIDGET JONES DIARY.' down the phone three times

He probably thought you were making some drunken admission of having hired a ghost writer.

― N., Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Janet?

I was also saying "No, my name is ANNA Fielding, I don't understand how you got my number, but I am nothing to do with HELEN Fielding."

― Anna, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Janet Fielding.

― MarkH, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Janet Fielding ROX0R.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The film was okay. Why don't I find Hugh Grant annoying anymore? What is happening to me?

― jel --, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I watched this my female flatmates and their female friends. I really, really hated it. I just couldn't relate to any of the characters - they appeared to be a bunch of right Nathan Barleys. I just can't relate to the characters in these FWAAF and Notting Hill type films; their Home Counties middle-class background doesn't just fly over my head like a low flying aircraft but incites murderous rage within me.

In the pub afterwards when discussing the film, my comments caused stony silence, strangely enough.

For the record, I only went because of a vicious marketing campaign on Virgin Radio. I should have trusted my judgement based on the book, which accords with wot Katie sed above.

― Nathan Barley, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna and Katie, I guess I think just exactly the same as you about this book except that I kind of felt some sort of half-assed defence of it because it least it isn't raving on about how great it is to be 'allowed' to wear high heels or something. I just love the way I mangled that sentence so much I have to leave it shining like that.

― maryann, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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