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...I had a dressing room with Dame Judi Dench and Petula Clark and Julia Mackenzie and Imelda Staunton and it was terrific, a real feeling of community....
...“I’m not going to argue with you,” Parkinson told the boxer in one interview. “You’re not as dumb as you look,” Ali replied....
...Nah, I’m good, thanks. I’m up to my eyeballs in it. If this sounds unduly harsh — I applaud the fact that women no longer suffer in silence....
...(See my Swamp Note on his recent book on that topic, co-written with John Judis.)...
...I put Judi Dench on the cover of British Vogue. I’ve put women with hijabs on the cover. Without risk, the job I do is not worth it. You can’t move forward without risk....
...Judis “I do not understand how you and others with this opposition can suggest that neoliberalism translates into laissez-faire....
...“I don’t feel in any way that I’m key to the film,” she says with feeling....
...“As office windows go, I’m not sure you can beat this,” he says, gazing out at the broad, calm waters of Conception Bay....
...She in turn joins Judi Dench’s tragicomic Philomena Lee and Meryl Streep’s amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins in Frears’ catalogue of singular women. He dismisses talk of feminism....
...I was going to drama classes in Manchester and Judi Hayfield, the casting director, came to watch a showcase. She invited me to audition for See No Evil....
...It was nearly 30 years ago in GoldenEye that Judi Dench first appeared as M, the head of MI6, opposite Pierce Brosnan’s Bond....
...In fact they were written between 30 and 40 years ago and, when first performed on BBC Radio 3, drew actors of the calibre of Judi Dench, Peggy Ashcroft, Alan Rickman and John Gielgud....
...I’m almost dumbstruck. What a truly weird film director Tom Hooper (Les Misérables) has made from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical. It’s quite worryingly erotic....
...I do admire him and Judi Dench and all those people who have that tenacity, that drive to go on stage. I, sadly, unfortunately… maybe I’m too nervous to expose that part of myself....
...He has been the first editor to introduce covers featuring subjects in a hijab and a durag, and pushed the ceiling on age, making 85-year-old Judi Dench the title’s oldest cover star in June....
...Even days after I’m not sure quite what I saw....
...Look, Philip, I’m prime minister. Brexit in four weeks everyone — time to pop to Costco.” But I digress....
...After all, human lives are made meaningful by attachments to all sorts of things — my allegiance to the football team I support is at least as powerful as my feeling of national identity (more so, if I’m...
...“I’m 80 next year, so I’m taking the show to 80 different theatres, places with happy memories. But it won’t be so much a farewell tour as a ‘hello, here I am again!’ tour. Afterwards, who knows?...
...Recommended reading This week I’m diving into John B Judis’ new book, The Nationalist Revival, which looks at the revolt against globalisation....
...Citizens of nowhere, I commend to you Cheddar cheese and Judi Dench....
...“[I’m] sick of the media demanding only women speak up. What about the men? Perhaps many are afraid to look at their own behaviour,” she tweeted....
...Then there was Judi Dench, who doesn’t count because she’s 83....
...American origins Populism was originally an American creation, Judis writes....
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