Just read - and watched - Tale, as part of my brushing-up on what people would have been reading during the Civil War. Sure is lucky for our side that Sidney Carton had the same size feet as Charles Darnay.

As a student of the French Revolution I spent most of the book going, "Hunh???" until I read that Dickens got the idea for it in 1857, during the Indian Mutiny -- at which point I realized the book is a whole lot more about the Indian Mutiny than it is about the actual Real-Life French Revolution. Then it made a lot more sense.

And the movie of course was just - er - Selznickian.

A couple of people have mentioned that they've looked up "Fortress of Solitude" on-line and been directed to a store in New Jersey - is there anyone who doesn't know that the Fortress of Solitude, at least in the 1960s, was Superman's ultra-secret hideout at the North Pole?