Sliding Doors
Another movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow. And set in London.
Archive for September, 2006
Shakespeare in Love
with Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, and Geoffrey Rush. London in Elizabethan times.
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Starring Bill Murray Entry to follow later, this is a placeholder so that I can keep track of movies I run across or own which are set in London or are somehow associated with the city.
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Technically this movie doesn’t have a direct connection to London itself. But it is set in England and for a period of what seems like several months, Elizabeth Benett’s older sister Jane is away in London staying with her Aunt and Uncle. It is also where Wickham and Lydia disappear, temporarily, into the underground, before [...]
I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles
Written in the first person from Elizabeth’s point of view, it is as if she is looking back on her life from her early teens through her 70s and retelling her life story. The first half of the book I couldn’t wait to read. During the second half it got long in parts and somewhat [...]
Londontown
My fascination and semi-obsessive relationship with London began almost as an accident. I was approaching the end of my senior year in high school and a friend of mine told me his father was taking a group of college students on a Study Abroad in London for the upcoming summer term and fall semester. There [...]
5 tiers reduced to 4
A wedding cake that I made for the sister of my sister-in-law. Although I actually have known the bride-to-be since high school – longer than I’ve been related to her through marriage. This was originally a five-tier tropical carrot cake (with cream of coconut and pineapple in it) frosted in cream cheese. When I got [...]
The Banned List – is six years enough?
I have found in my eating, traveling and other experiences that there are just certain places to which you should never return. But, trying to keep an open mind and give every place a second chance, I decided sometime ago that my list of bad places is not permanent. I always believe that someone can [...]
Este New York Style Pizza
Last week a co-worker gave me a tip about a new New York-style pizza place here in Salt Lake. Since he is a New York native and shares views similar to mine on the quality of mass-produced pizza here in Utah, I’m was very much looking forward to a visit. For lunch yesterday we headed [...]
Ice Cream from the Spotted Dog Creamery
I’ve put a new pizza place on my list of places to try. While looking through the menu for the pizza place I noticed that they name the ice cream they serve for dessert. It comes from a place called Spotted Dog Creamery. Since I’m always interested in products that warrant mention on another restaurant’s [...]
