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No longer down with ‘Downton Abbey'
New York City :: NY :: USA | 7 months ago
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November 18, 2012 One of the creators of Upstairs Downstairs says the wave of fox-and-hound soap operas that her show inspired is now overdone and nothing more than TV snobbery. Dame Eileen Atkins, who came up with the idea for Upstairs with fellow
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All That Fall: the Samuel Beckett stage play that isn't
Dublin :: Ireland | 7 months ago
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Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins, who star in All That Fall at the Arts theatre, London. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Eileen Atkins is trying to eat a fruit salad while explaining why women in the theatre find it difficult to eat properly
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I turned down a romp with DiCaprio! Dame Eileen Atkins, 78, reveals why she said no to a steamy kiss with Leonardo - and still regrets it
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 8 months ago
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First, they tried to tell me the monkey was too expensive to hire for another day...So I called the trainer and asked why Solomon wasn't available...If Heidi had said right at the beginning she hated the monkey, then I would have chosen another pet a
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Red Velvet; All That Fall; Desire Under the Elms – review
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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Adrian Lester as Ira Aldridge in Red Velvet at the Tricycle. Photograph: Tristram Kenton What an incisive, fervent beginning. Indhu Rubasingham takes over with panache at the Tricycle, bowing to the theatre's politically engaged tradition but giving
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All That Fall, Jermyn Street Theatre, London Scenes from an Execution, NT Lyttelton, London Desire Under the Elms, Lyric Hammersmith, London
Athens :: Greece | 8 months ago
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a play by Samuel Beckett that has never been staged, till now. Check out the casting, too: Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon, no less, directed by Trevor Nunn. A queue of theatre fans, hoping for returns, was already snaking up the street last week,
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Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry
Sussex :: WI :: USA | 11 months ago
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Window & Grove/Getty Images In 1941, the year of her suicide, Virginia Woolf finished two essays...According to her diary, she found the Terry essay hard going: on 8 December 1940 she notes "Struggle with Ellen Terry", and on 16 December, "Exhausted
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Jenny Diski: ‘Downton Abbey'
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 1 year ago
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Beginning in 1974, for the benefit of American television viewers, Alistair Cooke introduced every episode of the five original series of Upstairs, Downstairs . It wasn't offered as slush or soapy escapism, but as classy and educational, shown in the
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First Night: Upstairs Downstairs, BBC 1, 9.30pm
Maidstone :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Suggested Topics It's hard to say whether the BBC's reincarnation of Upstairs Downstairs' which returned last night for a second series, is dogged by bad luck or bad judgement. To lose Jean Marsh, parlour-maid turned housekeeper Rose Buck, to a
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Downton follows Emmys tradition
Oxford :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Downton Abbey follows US tradition It seems Americans love nothing better than an English accent and a period setting, as Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes is all too aware. Accepting his Emmy award for writing the show, Fellowes thanked the US
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Winslet in line for Emmy honour
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Kate Winslet in line for Emmy award Winslet is one of several movie stars nominated at this year's ceremony The stars of TV are descending on Hollywood for the Primetime Emmy awards, which take place on Sunday. But they are increasingly being joined
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