… at least for a while.

Nope, today is all about frippery — specifically, my latest Sympatico/MSN movie column about the five sexiest portrayals of British royalty in the movies. What can I say? “The Other Boleyn Girl” doesn’t exactly accommodate a serious discussion about the gestation of the Church of England, you know?

Oh, and Torontoist noted my move from Metro to NOW in a very flattering item on Friday … which I’m only getting around to mentioning today because I’m caught between beaming with pride that anyone out there likes my work and flushing with embarrassment at being the story rather than writing the story. This is also why I reflexively flip past NOW’s house ad promoting me every time I see the thing.

But you know what? It’s not always so bad to be the story. I mean, I could be Marion Cotillard right now.

Let’s have a moment of silence for her American career, and never speak of this again.