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4 unusual facts about Bridget Jones's Diary


Bitchy Jones's Diary

Both nom de plume and the title of the blog are deliberately adapted from Bridget Jones's Diary, which represents the antithesis of the author's view of female sexuality.

Café Rouge

The restaurant chain gained much exposure after frequently being mentioned in the 1996 novel Bridget Jones's Diary, with the main character Bridget Jones (and her friends) visiting her local branch of the restaurant regularly throughout the novel.

Julia Wilhelm

Wilhelm's area of expertise is Jane austen and her influence on Chick Lit, the genre of women's literature which emerged after the publication of Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding in 1996.

Love, Shelby

The track was included in the soundtrack for the film adaptation of Bridget Jones's Diary.


An Assassin's Diary

Vidal's essay juxtaposes the arrival of CIA agent and hardboiled novelist E. Howard Hunt at Bremer's apartment within hours of Wallace's assassination to the "avant-garde" prose later found in Bremer's diary.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Fielding has said that the first Bridget Jones story was based on the Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice.

Critical approaches to Hamlet

John Evelyn saw the play in 1661, and in his Diary he deplored the play's violation of the unities of time and place.

David Arch

Arch toured with Paul McCartney in support of his Memory Almost Full album, and has contributed to the soundtracks of The Queen, the film Harry Potter series, Bridget Jones's Diary, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Foyle's War and The King's Speech.

Desperate Man's Diary

A Desperate Man's Diary is the second album by Glass Casket.

Edith's Diary

Edith's Diary was adapted into the German film Ediths Tagebuch (1983), directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer and starring Angela Winkler as Edith.

Eric Fellner

Among Fellner's more than 60 films as producer or executive producer are Moonlight and Valentino, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Dead Man Walking, Fargo, Notting Hill, United 93, Bridget Jones's Diary and Senna.

Eve's Diary

The book may have been written as a posthumous love-letter to Mark Twain's wife Olivia Langdon Clemens, or Livy, who died in June 1904, just before the story was written.

One library in Charlton, Massachusetts banned the book for the depictions of Eve in "summer costume."

Felicity Montagu

Montagu's reputation in comedy character parts was enhanced by her film performance alongside Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones's Diary as Perpetua, Bridget's unpleasant colleague.

Fiction Monthly

In 1927 there were more early works by authors who became famous, Mao Dun's novels Disillusion 幻灭, Wavering《动摇》, and Pursuit《追求》; Ding Ling's first novel Dream《梦珂》 and her early work Miss Sophia's Diary, Ba Jin's Destruction 《灭亡》; plus works by new writers Hu Yepin, Shen Congwen, Dai Wangshu, Shi Zhecun, Sun Xizhen 孙席珍、Zhang Tianyi, and others.

Glass Casket

Jake Troth, who joined Glass Casket prior to the recording of A Desperate Man's Diary, also played in Columns, but left the band in 2007.

Helen Fielding

Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, a sequence of novels and films that chronicle the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London as she tries to make sense of life and love.

James Callis

He is best known for playing Dr. Gaius Baltar in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series, and Bridget Jones' best friend in Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

Kill the Director

From the lyrics "this is no Bridget Jones" and according to the radio interview, they hated the film, and hence decided to write a song about it.

Lo's Diary

Most notably, the novel takes the interpretation of Humbert as being unattractive or repulsive: he even loses his teeth at one point.

Lo's Diary is a 1999 novel (ISBN 0964374021) by Pia Pera, retelling Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita from the point of view of "Dolores Haze (Lolita)".

It depicts Dolores as a sadist and a controller of everyone around her; for instance, she enjoys killing small animals.

Love Fiction

Touted as a "Male Bridget Jones" and a "Korean 500 Days of Summer", the insightful love story tracks the hero’s bumbling journey through modern dating, which turns out to be a lot harder than he thought.

Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx

It was this detachment which gave the Private Eye spoof Mrs Wilson's Diary, the supposed diary of Mary Wilson, written in the style of the BBC's daily radio serial Mrs Dale's Diary, a spurious look of authenticity.

My Wife Jacqueline

In his 2006 autobiography, Hello, Phillips said "The script was as light as a feather, with characters who appeared to live in a social, political and cultural vacuum that made Mrs Dale's Diary look like a profound study of social history."

QT's Diary

On the Internet, the simulation stock market website BlogShares, which deals in trade on Internet sites, listed QT's Diary as one of the most valued blogs.

QT's Diary was a surreal blog falsely claiming to be the work of film director Quentin Tarantino.

Ray Connolly

He also wrote and directed the feature length documentary entitled James Dean: The First American Teenager, while his television drama series have included Honky Tonk Heroes, Lytton's Diary and Perfect Scoundrels.

Royal Winnipeg Ballet

In 2002, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of the story of Dracula, choreographed by Mark Godden, was filmed in a made for television titled Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary directed by Guy Maddin.

Shelley Calene-Black

She has also moved into live action roles, playing the lead role of Maria Patterson in the Mariusz Kotowski-directed Holocaust film Esther's Diary (2010).

Sora's Diary

Yosa Buson drew an illustration of Oku no hosomichi showing Basho on the horseback accompanied by Sora.

The Late, Late Breakfast Show

The author Helen Fielding, who later wrote the Bridget Jones novels, worked for a time as a researcher on the programme.

Wakefield Express

The campaign was backed by Tony Blair and Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding, and organised a Wakefield Book Day in March 2007 and provided reading material for primary school leavers worth £10,000.

Yard of ale

John Evelyn records in his Diary the formal yet festive drinking of a yard of ale toast to James II at Bromley in Kent, 1685.

Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe

The diary was saved by his siblings and published in Hebrew by Yad Vashem in 1958.

Zlata's Diary

Zlata's Diary (ISBN 0-14-024205-8) is a book by Zlata Filipović, who was a young girl living in Sarajevo while it was under siege.


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