FIRTH LOVE

Colin Firth, cinema's favorite wounded Brit, imparts his tips on girl hunting for married men, why the spaghetti vongole doesn't impress the ladies like it used to, and how love isn't half as fun as you'd think.

Has any actor been tossed to the curb as much as Colin Firth? As if being cuckolded by Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient wasn't enough to hobble him romantically, two years later in Shakespeare In Love, Fiennes' brother Joseph hoovers up the last of Firth's on-screen dignity by stealing Gwyneth Paltrow away. In Love Actually, there's Firth again, horrified to discover that his girlfriend and brother have been sharing some naked laughs while he was out.  When he does get the girl--as the brooding Mr. Darcy in both Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary--he wears that hangdog look, as if expecting to be

whacked again by the relationship reaper.  Now, as the Dutch painter Vermeer in Girl With A Pearl

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