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Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 14, 2007, 12:39:24 am ---Careful. Tonight I just watched the first disc of Elizabeth I, with Helen Mirren. She was superb. She made a much better Elizabeth I than Judi Dench (as in Shakespeare in Love). The best Elizabeth I since Glenda Jackson in the 1970s.


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But what about Cate Blanchett? Now that's what I call a queen!!!

Meryl:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 14, 2007, 10:42:48 am ---I seriously recommend that you do continue to avoid The Importance of Being Earnest. All-in-all it's one of my most favorite plays, but the whole take on it in the film was just ... so wrong.
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I agree!  The most British of plays was somehow made too....American.  Effortful, Hollywoodized stuff, and a great cast wasted.  :P

As for the latest take on the Tudors, I haven't had the fortitude to watch it.  In the endless previews, Jonathan Rhys Meyers seems to be having sex with every panting young lady in England.  I wonder how he found time to run the country.  ::)

Cate and Judi and Helen are absolute tops in my book!

Gwyneth is one of my favorites, too.  She has an intelligent girlishness, if that's the right way to describe it.  I liked her as Jane Austen's "Emma," too.  One of the few American actors who've been able to manage the English accent believably.

ednbarby:
I adored her in Emma, but then I adore her in everything.  And Jeremy Northam.  Gaaaaah...  That entire scene with Jane and Frank Church playing the piano and singing - the facial expressions alone were priceless, but especially his.  I could just eat him up with a spoon.  He is soooooooo my type.

But I digress.  There's something kind of tomboyish about Gwyneth that I find very appealing.  Even at her most feminine, she seems to have a man's - I don't know - facial and speech-oriented mannerisms, somehow.

I'll most definitely check out Elizabeth I on your recommendations, Jeff.

And you're all correct - The Tudors sucks out loud.  I summoned the fortitude to watch it the other night and couldn't get past 15 minutes.  It was just - boring.  And you're right - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is not the one to play him.  A very accomplished actor (and more than a tad hot), but COME ON.  I watched it only for my beloved Jeremy Northam.  Now, had he been in more of that first fifteen minutes than about 15 seconds, I would have stuck with it.  He's the best thing on that show.  By far.  And I don't just say that because I could still eat him up with a spoon.

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 14, 2007, 01:14:51 pm ---But what about Cate Blanchett? Now that's what I call a queen!!!



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Quoting myself:


--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 14, 2007, 10:42:48 am ---In retrospect I realize I was very unfair to Cate Blanchett when I wrote last night. (J.W. slaps self up side the head and dictates memo to self: Don't write movie criticism while drinking scotch and water.) She did make a good young Elizabeth. I allowed my loathing for the unbelieveably bad history in that film to warp my judgment of her performance.

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Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on April 14, 2007, 04:29:25 pm ---And Jeremy Northam.  Gaaaaah...  That entire scene with Jane and Frank Church playing the piano and singing - the facial expressions alone were priceless, but especially his.  I could just eat him up with a spoon.  He is soooooooo my type.
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Mine, too.  ;D As much as I loathed The Importance of Being Earnest, I loved An Ideal Husband--again with the Oscar Wilde!--with Jeremy Northam, Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, and Julianne Moore.


--- Quote ---And you're all correct - The Tudors sucks out loud.  I summoned the fortitude to watch it the other night and couldn't get past 15 minutes.  It was just - boring.  And you're right - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is not the one to play him.  A very accomplished actor (and more than a tad hot), but COME ON.  I watched it only for my beloved Jeremy Northam.  Now, had he been in more of that first fifteen minutes than about 15 seconds, I would have stuck with it.  He's the best thing on that show.  By far.  And I don't just say that because I could still eat him up with a spoon.


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Much obliged for the confirmation of my instinct with regards to The Tudors. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is, indeed, more than a tad hot, in a hollow-cheeked runway-model kind of way, but he's no Henry VIII. The real Henry was a hottie, too, in his youth--if you like 'em tall, reddish-blond, broad-shouldered, and barrel-chested. He didn't always look like the overweight, suspicious middle-aged man of the familiar Holbein portrait.

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