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#26

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/18/05 at 5:19pm

Maggie and Margaret Tyzack were fab in Lettice and Lovage.
I'm pretty sure I saw Pauline Collins and Vanessa Regrave on Broadway that same season.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#27

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/18/05 at 5:22pm

I love the Dames in Ladies in Lavender.. ah.. so good.

#28

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/18/05 at 5:24pm

OMG - Maggie, Margaret, Pauline and Vanessa all in one season. Throw in Eileen, too, and that would be some party!

...fragment of the day...

#29

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/18/05 at 5:27pm

Glenda and Sian would have been the cherry on that cake.

OMG - Carol and Maggie together?
Maggie did become Lucy at one point in Act II of Lettice and Lovage.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#30

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/18/05 at 5:28pm

I don't agree about Ya Ya, I thought she was pretty bad in it. But then she was matched my every other performance, the direction and the script.

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

#31

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/18/05 at 5:38pm

Agree about Glenda and Sian. Special invitation to Diana, too, I think.

...fragment of the day...

#32

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/18/05 at 5:40pm

What about an evening with them all.
The ticket price would probably start at $200 per ticket.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#33

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/18/05 at 5:53pm

200 bucks at least. And what would the evening be called...'A Lavender Evening', perhaps?

...fragment of the day...

#34

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 12:06am

Dame Maggie, please return to the Great White Way!

#35

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 12:24am

No one has mentioned Harry Potter... Lol.

Well, I'm glad he got away with it.

#36

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 4:56am

Maggie Smith is G-D.

I agree with Margo about her two Oscar-winning performances being absolutely brilliant. I especially love her in "California Suite", where she was extremely funny throughout the entire movie and then, in a split second, was able to turn around and break people's heart with the scene in bed with Micheal Caine ("Let it be me, tonight"). Amazing.

I love her in everything she does.. Even "Divine Secrects Of The Ya Ya Sisterhood", where the movie kinda sucked but she was hysterical. Other recent highlights for me were, in addition to the movies Margo mentioned, "Gosford Park", "Tea With Mussolini" and "My House In Umbria". Brilliant.

Oh and that sketch with Carol Burnett is perfection! I laughed so hard I almost peed myself.

"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "

#37

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 9:36am

my favorite actress. i even celebrate her birthday --12/28. i raise a glass. my cat, (muffin louise) is actually named for her as well (MAGA-muffin)
i've seen jean brodie about 17,000 times. her big confrontation scenes with celia johnson are textbook acting lessons. two greats going at it. THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE put her in another stratosphere as a dramatic actress. her few lines in GOSFORD PARK crystalize her art -- she just bends a word here and there and KILLS IT!
back in the 90's i sat next to her at a performance of a show starring her dear friend, dame dench. i did not know where to look. i just managed a shy sort of smile at her at the interval, and then she asked me if i was enjoying myself. AND HOW!

Mind is Mantra.

Updated On: 9/19/05 at 09:36 AM

#38

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 9:56am

". . . her few lines in GOSFORD PARK crytalize her art -- she just bends a word here and there and KILLS IT!"

"Yummy, yummy, yummy!"

#39

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 10:49am

She was brilliant in "My House in Umbria."

#40

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 10:57am

favorite line....

'Where's my Dickie? er...Richard."
from Murder by Death.

I will agree with M_E; her best onscreen performance was California Suite.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#41

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 12:19pm

If you want to see Dame Maggies greatest film performance, check out THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE....absolutely heartbreaking!

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

#42

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 12:22pm

THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE is brilliant. I was in awe.

"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "

#43

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 12:59pm

Tragically, not available on DVD.

#44

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 1:57pm

#45

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 1:58pm

#46

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 1:59pm

#47

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 2:13pm

I am so glad there are other fans of Bed Among The Lentils--one of the best performances ever. She was also amazing in a PBS film version of Suddenly, Last Summer.

"There's no need to wear a different frock every night. It's not a fashion parade."

#48

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 2:46pm

When I was in college I saw her and her husbands Robert Stephens do Private Lives on Broadway.

When Amanda first sees Elyot on the adjoining balcony, Maggie (not yet Dame Maggie) did a triple take, with the classic lingering stare in the middle (as good as any by Buster Keaton), after which she scrambled halfway up the balcony trellis in shock. I will never forget the sight of her hanging there, as the audience continued to laugh.

#49

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 2:54pm

Sounds hysterical. GG's post about 'Gosford Park' reminded me of her marvellous 'Don't encourage him' after the applause for Ivor Novello.

...fragment of the day...

#50

re: Maggie Smith

Posted: 9/19/05 at 3:03pm

I adore Maggie Smith as well. She first came to my attention in Sister Act when I was younger but then I started to see more of her films as I got older. I LOVED "My House in Umbria".

(About Sister Act...was anyone else disappointed to find out Wendy Makkena didn't do her own singing??)

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