ok maybe i'm really slow, but only when i read the imdb did i realise that both the wife and clarisse were played by one person -- julie christie. who has a fantastic list of movies to her name, and grew up on a tea plantation in assam (gorgeous part of india) before boarding school in paris and then london for theatre training, and then having an affair with warren beatty and being good friends with faye dunaway and catherine deneuve and all.

yeah, so i'm slow. and the wife looked a lot prettier than clarisse. it was the hair, i think. and the wife's called linda in the movie and mildred in the book. why? strange. maybe cos the movie was made in the 60s when linda was a common name? i don't know. the book was only written in the 50s, i guess mildred was a more common name then or something. maybe.

and still trying to figure out the meaning of montag. hm.