"Oh, to Have Friends Like That!"

Funny van Dannen knew it all along - and wrote a song about female friendship. Literature is full of great women's friendships: wild, clever, gentle, sharp-tongued, bound together through life's tragedies and comedies.

Their male counterparts may be a thousand times more famous, but Tom and Huckleberry, Sherlock and Watson are staying home tonight: Annette Frier and Maren Kroymann roll out the red carpet for the finest female friendships in world literature.