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...“Which is complicated… There’s just so much there [in my life] that I’m not so aware of because I’m not the sort of person who looks back.”...
...But mainly I’m in it for La Winslet. Assuming she makes it through the final episode, I pray this is a role she will return to many times in future years....
...I am hoping Buffy and Lady M can teach us all a thing or two on those points. The meal ends with my favourite taste of the summer, fresh English strawberries....
...At the end of his shows with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, he has been known to invite the audience to join him one at a time for a hug, a chat and a selfie....
...The film Crawford wanted to make next was Mildred Pierce, an adaptation of a 1941 James M Cain novel. Michael Curtiz was assigned to the job and Crawford lobbied hard for the lead....
...I’m still proud of the work.” ‘Loving’ is released in the UK on February 3...
...So instead of asking what would Jesus or Marilyn Monroe do, you might think how would your favourite Blue Peter presenter handle it, or Mildred from George and Mildred, or Admiral and Mrs Croft, Jane Austen...
...According to his biographer, Richard M Sudhalter, it was the saxophonist Frank Trumbauer who suggested Georgia as a subject....
...“I’m cautiously optimistic,” he says. “We are talking about a low likelihood that we don’t find the aircraft before May, although it is a possibility.”...
...No one would confuse Mildred Silverman with a contributor to Cahiers du Cinéma, but she knew her way around the movie theatres of her native Brooklyn — and she was capable of pungent film criticism....
...Her mother, Mildred, who recently passed away, adored Cohen and would often bake him a large fruit cake....
...The most positive message was from labour minister Mildred Oliphant, who told reporters that discussions with Lonmin workers were “going very well” and they might return to work on Tuesday, according to...
...“I’m very fortunate in that three of my five children live in Madeira and work here on the estate or in the family business,” he says....
...M*A*S*H* managed to negotiate a fine line between black humour and sentimentality. Taxi was worth watching for the mercurial Andy Kaufman. They were drops in the ocean....
...It is easy to think of Mildred Pierce, for example, as a character from Arbus....
...In deepest Virginia in 1958, a teenager called Mildred got pregnant by her young boyfriend Richard, who wanted to make an honest woman of her. The only thing was, she was black and he was white....
...Mrs E is ferociously attached to her Yorkshire terriers, Mildred and Doris, and when in town wants to use, as she has always, London’s grandest park as her dog pen....
...● Mildred Pierce by James M Cain. The book was first published in 1941 and was made into a successful movie, with Joan Crawford in the starring role....
...The boat ride through the bogs at the beginning is sweet, especially when Mildred the crocodile snorts water at you....
...Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish. I’ve bought 12 copies in the past two weeks. Which author would you most like to review the work of? Henry James....
...Joan Crawford made everyone cry as the pie-baking mom in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce....
...Mildred Sjostrand may be the future of the American food retail business....
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