Helen Mirren has been cornered into queenly roles during her entire career, playing three in the past decade (Queen Charlotte in 1994′s The Madness of King George, Queen Elizabeth I in 2005′s Elizabeth I and of course the Buckingham Palace monarch in last year’s The Queen). But now the 64-year-old dame is about to get Read More
By all accounts—most notably the amusingly disenchanted commentaries by Caryn James, David Carr and Paula Schwartz in The New York Times—this year’s Oscars will be considerably less uncertainty-laden than usual, particularly in the four acting categories. This is to say that Helen Mirren (in The Queen), Forest Whitaker (in The Last King of Scotland), and Read More
“It’s likely that what you remember is the performances,” writes Lynn Hirschberg in Feb. 11 editions of The New York Times Magazine, since the movies of 2006 were “dominated by sequels, animation and the broken yellow VW bus from ‘Little Miss Sunshine.’”
This is the fourth year in a row that the Times Magazine Read More
Wednesday 20th
They’re 50! And they love it! They love it, they love it, they love it! (Pardon us-sharp pang of missing Molly Shannon , who was the best thing about NBC’s Saturday Night Live and then just kind of disappeared, as funny women from that show have a rather ominous way of doing.) Read More
Notes toward enjoying August Strindberg’s grotesque tragicomedy or marital blood sport, Dance of Death, starring Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren as Edgar and Alice in perfect, abusive harmony:
You won’t want to miss these two great actors at the top of their game, that’s for sure. But my surprise in seeing the renowned play for Read More
