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[froodle]

Squee! New John Connolly book out on 7th September! Extensive tour dates to coincide with the release date! Yet more opportunities for Froodle to make an idiot of herself in front of an attractive man!

Oh man, seriously, Francis Wolcott is such a complete dude. "Do you think this hat makes my head look big?" Hahah! If I ever become a mad geologist with bizarre sexual proclivities and a tendancy to let my temper run away with me? I want to be Wolcott. Except for the bit about getting the shit kicked out of me by Charlie, because, ouch. It's pretty impressive that in a show with as much strong language as Deadwood, they've managed to write Charlie so consistently that you sit up and gasp the first time he calls someone a cunt.

Also, David Tennant in a fluffy shirt? Totally squeeworthy. I have to say, he makes a much more convincing Casanova than Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger's pretty, but in that wholesome blonde Australian way that screams "puppyish enthusiasm" rather than "charm, wit and charisma", and all the eyeliner in the world isn't going to change that.

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[gothicwhite.livejournal.com]

Who's John Connolly? Or Francis Wolcott, he sounds damn interesting.

Lovely, another movie to cross off of my list. First A New World, now Casanova.

[froodle]

John Connolly is the amazingly talented and hilariously funny author of the Charlie Parker detective novels; started out writing crime and gradually introduced horror and occult elements into his books as he went along, then branched out with a collection of short stories called Nocturnes (some of which were read on BBC Radio a couple of years ago) which had a definate supernatural flavour. His new book is called the Book of Lost Things, the first chapter of which can be read here. I've met him three times; the first time, he flirted with my mother while I stood in the background and blushed because I was too nervous to say anything, the second he ranted about Japanese horror movies and how much he hates the Isle of Man (where I'm from, and where he was doing a booksigning the first time I met him) and the third, he gave a talk about why he hates cat stories and why everyone from Maine is crazy. And he's awesome and I'm totally in love with him in a creepy stalkeresque fashion.

Francis Wolcott is a character from the second season of Deadwood; he's an agent of George Hearst and he comes to Deadwood to spread rumours about the camp's future and make prospectors sell their claims to his minions at reduced prices. Also, he can't take off his trousers during sex. It's very strange.

Heath Ledger!Casanova isn't bad, it's just... I'm not being a jerk, but I just do not believe that Heath Ledger is the world's greatest lover. I'm sure he has many good qualities and he's not exactly hard on the eyes, but he lacks that spark of sexual magnetism that transforms well brought up society women into sexcrazed lustbeasts.