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...Given that Americans started living in a post-Roe-vs-Wade world this year, this film (directed by Phyllis Nagy) couldn’t be more timely and consciousness-raising....
...Phyllis Smith is one of the great characters of the US version of The Office, but was only spotted for the role because she worked for the show’s casting director (“I was probably honing a craft that I didn...
...There was Call Jane, directed by Phyllis Nagy and starring Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver, telling the story of some unlikely radicals, Chicago housewives led by the redoubtable Heather Booth who,...
...Phyllis Arena Woods My name is Phyllis Arena Woods. I’m a trader on the New York Stock Exchange. The bidding offer has to be within a certain percentage. Like if it’s, you know, $24 to $24.10....
...Certainly, the fabrics of Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher merited such treatment....
...Alas, not even a flinty performance by Phyllis Logan, a world away from her Downton Abbey housekeeper persona, can make these 95 minutes compelling....
...Sadness (Phyllis Smith) is blue and roly-poly, like a TV couch potato gently irradiated by sloth....
...Jacqueline Smith, a long-time resident in her 60s, said she would be prepared to leave, but she fears that, as a senior citizen, $65,000 simply won’t be enough money to start over....
...“I just never got round to it,” said Phyllis, a grandmother from south London, waiting for a Card Factory store to open so she can buy her son a birthday card before she meets him in an hour....
...Regan and/or choreographer Mark Smith gives the fairies a constant gestural language as if, having no wings except whatever scarves or bunting are handy, their hands must do the fluttering....
...And ghosts from Robert Altman’s 2001 film Gosford Park, where Maggie Smith is the hideous Countess of Trentham; here she plays the merely reactionary Dowager Countess of Grantham....
...Even the terrible dowager countess, designed as a bravura part for Maggie Smith (a reprise of her similar role in Gosford Park) shows her a pet....
...“When markets begin to deteriorate, you don’t see it immediately,” says Bradford Smith, president of the Foundation Center....
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