>>Absolutely!!! The Theater movie was much more historically accurate than the TV movie... I waited 2 years for that book to get translated to English! And the Theater movie did a wonderful job of taking the historical research from the recently open Vatican Library vaults into a real heart wrenching story. In fact I was soooooo moved by the movie, I came out of the theater and bought a second ticket and stuck around for the midnight show... and refused to where a dress for atleast a week afterwards in my own personal tribute to Joan =D)
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>I was referring to the theatre film, haven't seen either, however.
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>Geez, oRox, after readng this, maybe it's a good thing that you weren't a young adult in the 1960's.:-)

heeheehee... what I meant was all in the end, Joan's life would of been spared if she would of kept her mouth shut & wore the stupid dress the bishop insisted she wear. But her enemies tossed her original boy-like riding gear into her cell once the Bishop stood up to the monarchy on her behalf and she of course put her own clothes back on, and was declared a heretic & burned at the stake because of it wearing pants instead of a dress. Talk about a fashion statement! Now the movie shows her being burnt in said stinking lousy dress, but historical docs have it that the Bishop was so pissed off he insisted she be set aflame in the buff. < smirk > It's my opinion that this act was the original source of the phrase "What a bitch" =D)