Jan 2, 2010
Bridget Jones begins the year—and her diary—with a set of resolutions dedicated to reducing her alcohol and tobacco intake, reducing her weight, and developing inner poise and a “functional relationship with responsible adult.” This last resolution—as well as all the others, in fact—translates into finding a man. Bridget, now in her thirties, is alternately envious and contemptuous of those she refers to as the “Smug Marrieds,” but she is obsessed by a question frequently put to her by her mother and her mother’s friends: Why, at her age, is Bridget still single? Her...
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