foot in mouth: Bush strikes again!

President Bush: ‘I regret saying some things I shouldn’t have said..

oh yer? would that be like this…?

(speaking about President-Elect Obama’s visit to the White House)

“It was interesting to watch him go upstairs,” Bush said. “He wanted to see where his little girls were going to sleep. Clearly, this guy is going to bring a sense of family to the White House… But I believe he will, and I know his girls are on his mind and he wants to make sure that first and foremost, he is a good dad. And I think that’s going to be an important part of his presidency.”

words fail me!

re ‘Rhett Butler’s People’

a lot of people have asked me if this was a good book to read. My answer is YES.

I am a picky reader, if an author writes out of time, ie uses a contemporary word or gestures etc in a historical setting that’s it I close the book never to open it again. (same in movies)

I have to say this is a really great, authentic read. I raised my eyebrows once over something but can’t even recall now what it was, so I must have been reassured somewhere along the way.

It is worth noting this book has been authroised – and you will see/read scenes you are familiar with (from a different point of view) and yes it does evoke the movie, and the book …but that’s why you are reading it in the first place. Right?

You want to know more about Rhett…who he was, and how he came to be the man we love. What shaped him and so forth…it answers so many questions.

so check it out of your library (get on a waiting list if need be) or go buy it. Borrow it, whatever, but read it.

I loved it. Maybe you will, maybe you won’t.

It won’t be a movie, Clarke and Vivian are gone, so it can never be – for no one else can ever be Rhett Butler or MIss Scarlett O’Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler!

♥ Jane

beauty in black and white

audrey hepburn (above)

bette davis (above)

deborah kerr (above)

olivia de havilland (above)

greta garbo (above)

ingrid bergman (above)

katherine hepburn (above)

lauren bacall (above)

vivian leigh (above)