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Dame Judi as Miss Matty Jenkyns
http://www.cranfordchronicles.com/ Oscar-winning star Dame Judi Dench is to appear in a five-part BBC One serial based on novels by Elizabeth Gaskell. The 72-year-old actress will play Miss Matty Jenkyns in Cranford Chronicles - a 19th Century drama exploring life in a fictional rural town in Cheshire. Dame Judi said she was "so excited" to appear in a series that would give her "a summer of fun to look forward to". Click here to read the entire article Thanks to Gloria N, for first bringing this to my attention
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Dench and Gambon under the sea Dame Judi Dench and Sir Michael Gambon are providing the voices for The Little Mermaid at the Little Angel, the Islington theatre which presents puppet shows for a family audience. The two actors have recorded the soundtrack of The Little Mermaid, along with ex-Bond girl Rosamund Pike, Claudie Blakely, Michelle Duncan, Rory Kinnear, Claire Rushbrook and Peter Wight. The production is choreographed to a dramatic score edited from Sinfonietta by Leos Janacek. Click here to read the entire article Thanks to Glenda P, USA, for bringing this to my attention
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Kevin Spacey to Play Joe
Claus Villain Thanks to Dee D. for bringing this to my attention
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IMDb Webpage -- no longer
available Directed by: Richard Eyre Writing credits (in
alphabetical order): Cast (in alphabetical
order): Stayed tuned for more info ... Thanks to both Clive, Webmaster of the Miranda Richardson Website and Ollie, from the UK, for bringing this to my attention
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Writing credits PeopleNews.com March 23, 2003 Gnomes: Dench and Winslet Forgetting any other gnome
than this ... Darlings of the British acting scene, Dame Judi Dench and Kate Winslet are to provide the voices for a new film about garden gnomes. The film, an animated Disney-backed venture called Gnomeo and Juliet, is being made by Rocket Pictures, the production company of Elton John and partner David Furnish. As might be expected, the film will be an adaptation of Shakespeare's light-hearted romantic comedy Romeo and Juliet. Winslet will play Juliet and Dame Judi her nurse, their gnome characters computer-generated against an English garden background. Sir Elton will write the score for the film in collaboration with fellow musical aristo Sir Tim Rice, but reportedly turned down the honour of having one of the gnome characters modelled on him because he did not like its hair, rotund curves or its habit of spending a fortune on flowers.
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White Rabbit (2006) Directed by: Simon Pickup Writing credits: Simon Pickup / Alexander Winton IMDb Webpage Credited cast: Judi Dench .... Madam Duchess Michael Gambon .... Jock Derek Jacobi Diana Rigg White
Rabbit is a story based loosely on the classic English fairytale “Alice in
Wonderland”, and takes place in the wet neon lit streets of the pubs and
clubs of Soho on a Saturday Night –
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Directed by At this point -- I'm assuming
Dame Judi will play the Jonathan Franzen's exhilarating novel The Corrections tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler's, only bitter. Franzen's great at describing Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwriters, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their lives, and the mad, bad, dangerous worlds of the Internet boom and the fissioning post-Soviet East. All five members of the Lambert family get their due, as everybody's lives swirl out of control. Paterfamilias Alfred is slipping into dementia, even as one of his inventions inspires a pharmaceutical giant to revolutionize treatment of his disease. His stubborn wife, Enid, specializes in denial; so do their kids, each in an idiosyncratic way. Their hepcat son, Chip, lost a college sinecure by seducing a student, and his new career as a screenwriter is in peril. Chip's sister, Denise, is a chic chef perpetually in hot water, romantically speaking; banker brother Gary wonders if his stifling marriage is driving him nuts. We inhabit these troubled minds in turn, sinking into sorrow punctuated by laughter, reveling in Franzen's satirical eye: Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts.... Gary wished that all further migration [could] be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strategic national reserve of cluelessness might be maintained, a wilderness of taste which would enable people of privilege, like himself, to feel extremely civilized in perpetuity. Franzen is funny and on the money. This book puts him on the literary map.
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