Netflix's upcoming ‘Persuasion’ adaptation, starring Dakota Johnson, has ruffled the feathers of some Jane Austen fans. Here are 10 facts about its source material.
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You ever have the kind of friend where for a long time you shake your head in admiration and then gradually realize you re shaking your head in despair? Bridget Jones would be a friend like that.
She s hopelessly lovable, and she s always going to be your friend no matter what, but, really, who but Bridget, with her guilt-ridden diary entries for alcohol and nicotine units per day, would manage to get jailed in Thailand on drug-smuggling charges?
Bridget of course is not a drug smuggler, but being Bridget she did the one thing no tourist should
ever do, and that is to carry in her luggage a souvenir given to her girl friend by a guy. But Bridget has pluck. In no time at all, she s traded her pink bra for cigarettes, organized her prison inmates into a Madonna class, and they re rehearsing Like a Virgin.