Maggie Smith

  • Maggie Smith never does anything ‘merely’.

    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

    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,…

  • The Lady In The Van

    It didn’t really matter what the first reviews of the World Premiere of ‘The Lady in The Van’ at the Toronto International Film Festival actually say as we are hardly going to pass up a chance to see the veteran actress Dame Maggie Smith shine in a role that was especially written for her by out-gay…

  • Downton Abbey : Almost Time To Say Goodbye

    ‘If I could stop history in its tracks, maybe I would. But I can’t, Carson. You nor I can hold back time.‘  Thus speaks the stoic Earl of Grantham when he is rumored to have to leave his precious Downton Abbey for good.  Most of the US and a fair percentage of viewers back in…