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This Lady Is Not for Turning

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (26)

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Ah, Meryl Streep. It’s got to be wonderful to be at a point in one’s career where you can basically act in whatever the hell you want, with the knowledge that probably 75% of the time, you’re going to get nominated for an Oscar for it (she’s been nominated 16 times). That’s Ms. Streep. And you know what? She deserves it. She’s an absolutely amazing actor and one of the best… ever.

Her next role is a doozy — Streep is re-teaming with Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd to portray former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Thatcher. The story is set to take place in 1982 in the days leading up to the clash over the Falkland Islands between England and Argentina.

Thatcher was an iconic figurehead for the conservative movement in the ’70s and ’80s, a staunch reactionary who was virulently anti-Communist and a strong critic of the Soviet Union, once famously saying “The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.” She also was responsible for the privatization of many British industries, including… um… British Petroleum.

Ahem. Anyway, it should be a fascinating picture. While I haven’t seen Mamma Mia!, Streep’s presence guarantees an arresting portrayal at the very least.

We now shall sit patiently and await comments from PaddyDog, who I’m guessing dislikes Thatcher as much as, if not more than, my own father.

(source: Slashfilm)









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Comments

Thatcher is one of the only people I can think of whose painful death is appropriate to wish for in polite company.

Posted by: TSF at July 1, 2010 10:44 AM

The structure of that sentence really annoys me. The Sudafed is kicking in and my ability to concentrate is fast depleting.

Posted by: TSF at July 1, 2010 10:46 AM

I didn't know where else to post this, but here is a Word Cloud representation of the Pajiba Dictionary:
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2203094/Pajiba_Dictionary

Enjoy

Posted by: Patty O'Green at July 1, 2010 10:52 AM

Hey, where's my name?

Posted by: Jay at July 1, 2010 11:00 AM

Where's Julie? RECOUNT!!

Posted by: Jay at July 1, 2010 11:04 AM

Patty, if you look closely at that word cloud, you will see that both "Vagina" and "vagina" are bigger than the word "movie".

Huh.

Posted by: A-schaef at July 1, 2010 11:05 AM

She was a shit Mum. One of us gets famous and infamous for eating bugs in a jungle and saying racist things on the One Show. The other tried to start a queue in Equatorial Guinea.

Posted by: Thatcher's Children at July 1, 2010 11:05 AM

Hey, where's my name?

"Dipshit" is on there, Jay.

Posted by: mswas at July 1, 2010 11:08 AM

TK - Do NOT see Mama Mia. I thought I might enjoy it in a well-the-critics-hate-it-but-it-seems-like-light-and-airy-fun-also-Greece-is-beautiful-and-I-like-Meryl-Streep-and-Amanda-Seyfried-was-funny-in-Mean-Girls kind of way. I was wrong. You'll hate it.

But, yeah, this movie seems like it will be excellent. Meryl will kick ass as Thatcher.

Posted by: tamatha at July 1, 2010 11:14 AM

Are you in the Pajiba dictionary? You are not.

"Dipshit"? That's the best you can think of?

Posted by: Jay at July 1, 2010 11:14 AM

Uh oh...I just remembered "Mamma Mia" was kind of a hot button here! Well, I guess it was mainly one guy taking on the whole site, which was kinda cool, but...this could get dangerous.

Posted by: Jay at July 1, 2010 11:16 AM

no i am not. that was my pitiful attempt to be scathing... no offense intended.

Posted by: mswas at July 1, 2010 11:19 AM

I just wanted to say that I enjoy the subtitle of this post, being a nerd about British drama. :) Thanks!

Posted by: Samantha at July 1, 2010 11:30 AM

A-schaef, the funny thing is that I noticed that EXACT thing when I made it.

The fun thing for me about Jay's protest is that he is literally described as "a contrarion".

And hey, I didn't write the thing, I just copy/pasted.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at July 1, 2010 11:33 AM

So why isn't there an uproar over Streep playing Thatcher? Shouldn't it be portrayed by a Brit?

Posted by: John W at July 1, 2010 11:40 AM

John: because it's Meryl Streep.

Posted by: scarecrowprophet at July 1, 2010 11:49 AM

No, that was good scathing!

Posted by: Jay at July 1, 2010 11:53 AM

I felt bad that I didn't finish watching "Julie & Julia" and was gonna go back, but then I got mad when I found out the author fucked around on her husband...and wrote a second book about how difficult a period that was for her. Wurtzel Syndrome! You hear me, Gilbert? Your schtick is played! Tell Burroughs he can give it a rest too! Alec Guinness wrote three memoirs...but he had a job!

Posted by: Jay at July 1, 2010 12:15 PM

Streep is re-teaming with Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd

NOOOOOOOO! I was subjected to about 5 minutes of that movie* and it was painfully awkward. Really. Not in a Ricky Gervais way, either. In a "she can't act this and whoever the fuck is directing is NOT doing their job" way.

*I guess I should say vagina. It's more fitting anyway, considering the production.

Posted by: esme at July 1, 2010 1:03 PM

Ah TK, you know me so well. Back in my dating days the mix-tape I would make for guys I liked was a compilation of all the anti-Thatcher songs that had been written in the 1980s. If the guy got it, he was going to have a good night. If he didn't get it, he was toast.

Incidentally, she also supported the Botha apartheid regime in your own country. There are many people on many continents who have many reasons to hate Thatcher. I just happen to be at the front of the queue.

Posted by: PaddyDog at July 1, 2010 1:14 PM

The other tried to start a queue in Equatorial Guinea.

Why did the queue fail? Did someone cut in line, even after you called no frontsies?

Posted by: marya at July 1, 2010 1:37 PM

Why did the queue fail?

Oh that's what that meant.

Posted by: Jay at July 1, 2010 1:52 PM

Jay, I believe Costello said it best...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-BZIWSI5UQ

Posted by: frank (aka frank_247 aka the lone Scotsman) at July 1, 2010 6:55 PM

I'd like to think it was a pun on my Mother's bad education skills but it is probably the fact that her major academic achievement was having a hand in creating whippy ice cream. That is, putting more air in ice cream so as to deprive children of ice cream.

Congratulations Mum you both failed to teach me adequate spelling, fucked the miners and the minors.

Bitch.

Posted by: Thatcher's Children at July 1, 2010 8:08 PM

finally a role tailor made for the streep hag

Posted by: idleprimate at July 1, 2010 8:46 PM

Exactly, Frank.

Posted by: Jay at July 1, 2010 9:15 PM