Monday, September 03, 2007
Ahh... It has been ages since I updated this. Whatever. Bored to death watching Desperate Housewife... zzz... starting CSI: Miami soon...
Michelle Katherine went down on 9/03/2007 12:21:00 PM
Thursday, November 30, 2006
woots... I know I said that I won't update anymore... But changed my mind... This blog would be open till... Dunno... GAH. Anyway, I will be posting mostly Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench news up here...
Maggie Smith is tempted back to TV by Poliakoff
By Neil Midgley
Last Updated: 2:51am GMT 10/11/2006
Dame Maggie Smith will return to the BBC in a new Stephen Poliakoff film — her first British television role in seven years.
The film, Capturing Mary, is the second of a pair of Poliakoff films currently going into production for the corporation. The first is as yet untitled but will star Michael Gambon and Rupert Penry-Jones.
Smith has been famously shy of television drama, preferring to appear in a string of highly successful films.
Recently, she has played professor Minerva McGonagall in Hollywood's Harry Potter adaptations.
She was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as the crotchety Constance Trentham in Robert Altman's ensemble mystery drama Gosford Park, and partnered Dame Judi Dench in the wartime drama Ladies in Lavender.
Her only television role in recent years has been in the American made-for-TV movie My House in Umbria, and even that received a cinema release in the UK. Her last British television roles were in 1999, when she appeared as Betsey Trotwood in a BBC adaptation of David Copperfield and as Queen Alexandra in All the King's Men. The two new Poliakoff films, to be made by the independent production company Talkback Thames, are linked by a beautiful but empty English house, and by teenage Joe (played by Danny Lee Wynter), who takes care of it.
In the first, Michael Gambon plays the reclusive owner of the house. A successful politician, played by Rupert Penry-Jones of Spooks, carries on an affair at the mansion, opening Joe's eyes to a wider, less innocent world.
In the second film, set in the same house, Smith plays Mary, who was formerly a high-flying writer and critic. As she reflects on her past, she remembers the charming but evil Greville — played by the ubiquitous David Walliams — and the chaos that he wrought in her life.
"I am delighted to be reunited with Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith and Rupert Penry-Jones, whom I have been fortunate enough to work with before," said Poliakoff, who will write and direct both films. "It's very exciting to have such an exceptional cast." The BBC has commissioned both the films, which will be completed next year for transmission on BBC1 and BBC2, with the American network HBO. HBO also helped to fund BBC2's expensive epic, Rome.
Woots!!~~ from telegraph.co.uk
Michelle Katherine went down on 11/30/2006 01:14:00 PM
Saturday, November 04, 2006
yay! end of exams. I've got my own domain now... :)
Pls relink soon to either minxff.wordpress.com or 20six.co.uk/minxff/
This blog would be on a deathroll, while I will only post if noteworthy events come up. I'll try to help this prolong its suffering... xD
Michelle Katherine went down on 11/04/2006 08:53:00 PM
