Tag: Maggie Smith
Dame Maggie Smith plays nice for Christmas……
We are a stickler for traditional etiquette in the QUEERGURY Office ie you will not see a single Halloween Pumpkin out until October. On the other hand, we could not resist sharing a preview of a new Christmas movie made by SKY TV in the UK and that is heading to Netflix this November. …
Dame Maggie Smith and Kathleen Turner : Stories and maybe some Shade
Over 20 years ago (and pre Downton) Dame Maggie Smith was starring in Alan Bennett’s play The Lady in The Van in the Queens Theatre in London’s West End. She was nominated for a Best Actress Award at the Oliviers and then later she would reprise the role in the film adaptation. Meanwhile at the…
Has the Dowager Countess of Grantham finally met her match?
It would take either a fool, or a very clever woman, to be foolhardy enough to take on the Dowager Countess of Grantham who has the sharpest tongue and quickest wit in Downtown Abbey. With the movie about to hit movie theaters, Focus Features have released this teaser clip where newcomer Lady Maud Bagshaw …
Maggie Smith never does anything ‘merely’.
Back in 1987 the celebrated British playwright Peter Shaffer followed up the enormous success of his Tony Award-winning play Equus with a new play called Lettice and Lovage that he wrote especially for Maggie Smith (in her pre Dame days). It centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house and who…
Happy 82nd Birthday Dame Maggie
With all this talk about the iconic divas who have left us in 2016, it’s a kind of a nice change to celebrate the birthday of one who is very much with us and still working at the ripe old age of 82. Dame Maggie Smith CH DBE, 6 time Oscar nominee and 2 time winner,…
