Colin Firth, Brooding, And Pittsburgh Sports Teams

It’s not very often that two of my favorite things in the world converge quite so unexpectedly as in this column from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about seeing Girl With A Pearl Earring, a “chick flick” on Valentine’s Day. Take this, for example:

I’ve seen Firth brood in “Pride and Prejudice,” in “Bridget Jones’ Diary” and in “The English Patient.” Most of his time on screen, Firth looks so downcast he could pass for a Penguins fan, …

Yes indeedy. As a downcast Penguins fan I can empathize. Is this article a strange convergence or what?