Sharon Maguire
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Sharon Maguire
Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones’s Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding’s runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play “singleton” Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides her free time between binge eating in front of the TV, downing Chardonnay with her friends, and updating the diary in which she records her negligible weight…


