FUNNY THING, LOVE

                 IN THE film Bridget Jones's Diary, the heroine is initially 
                 dazzled by a love rat played by Hugh Grant before realising that her 
                 true love is a good egg and decent chap played by Colin Firth.

                 Female audiences will be divided between those who think the 
                 heroine got it right and those who believe she was crazy to give up 
                 on Hugh.

                 Sensible, shrewd homebodies who want security, safety and the kind 
                 of husband who will end up as chairman of the parent/teacher
                 association will chose Mr Firth. The rasher ones who want fun, 
                 excitement and danger will go for Hugh Grant.

                 I'm in the second camp, since Mr Grant, who always plays himself, 
                 is sexy, tricky and irresistible. Above all, he has the one quality 
                 which a lot of women fall for irrespective of looks. He's terribly 
                 funny. 

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