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Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher, not a man around to match her
Posted by DogFacedBoy on 27 February 2009 - 12:00am.
Anyone else catch the rather marvellous drama on Mrs T's decline and fall on the idiot's lantern tonight?
Lindsay Duncan was a fine Iron Lady and acyally made me feel some sympathy for her demise. That may be because she, as Peter Cook would say, gave me the right horn in GBH way back when. Expect a BAFTA to be on her shelf next year.
Though when she was in full rant it did remind me of Bruno Ganz's Hitler in 'Downfall'
Sometimes it was hard to work out who was who with Roy Marsden playing Normo Tebbs like Les Dawson. The Heseltine was spot on as was John Sessions long suffering Geoffrey Howe
BTW the title is from that cringeworthy offical election song - i should have gone for 'Tramp the Dirt Down'
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I thought Kenneth Clarke was the most accurately portrayed. The problem with Lindsay Duncan is she's too beautiful, and I've never associated that word with Mrs T. And Thatcher as a feminist hero doesn't hold much water. Considering she never had a single woman in her Cabinet the whole time she was in office. In her own words "I owe nothing to women’s lib".
Interesting you say that
when I lived elsewhere I met the local Tory MP at a function and the subject of her came up and he said that she had a incredible magnetism about her and that when her eyes fixed on you they were like lasers. I think what this was what they were trying to achieve by using Lesley Duncan. When you read memoirs of the cabinet at the time these hard-nosed politicians were pussycats around her. She must have had something.
Mind you at the end she was mad as a box of frogs!
The real creep was Major, infected tooth my arse!!!
Well as Major was
shagging Edwina at the time it probably was some kind of infection
Eewwwww...
too much, too much!
Met her once
Mrs Thatcher that is. Wanted to tell her that most of her policies I detested, but she once she looked at you with her piercing eyes and put her head ever so slightly to one side as though what you were about to say was the most interesting thing she had ever heard, then all notions of being rude completely disappeared. Its a trick all great politicians have. Met Bill Clinton once too and he did exactly the same thing.
So not only did Lindsay Duncan get the eyes right, but like Mrs T she is tiny too. Couldn’t believe how short, what I thought was this giant stateswoman, was. Mind you if Mrs Thatcher really did look like Lindsay Duncan you can understand why Alan Clarke was infatuated by her.
I must be right.......No!
It was a piece of great, classic BBC drama. I liked Dennis but my wife thought he was rubbish. It brought to mind a comment on Mrs Thatcher, that because she believed with overwelming conviction she was right then it was so. Unfortunately no matter how great your belief you can still be wrong. That is probably why all leaders go off the rails, no one can, or will tell them the truth. The Queen alluded to that in the drama.
The dynamic between the members of the Thatcher family was very subtly teased out. I still like Carol even after her recent stupidity.
No point in watching my recording of it now
that I know how it ends ....... I guess it will be a curry and Apollo 13 on DVD. I love a thriller
Apollo 13
They make it back ok.
There you go, you can watch something else instead now :-)
That's a relief
I can go and see Valykerie instead. Although it might be a bit too similar to "Thatcher" I suppose
Similar, yes
but a different ending
Has all the makings of a popular blog
Day of the Jackal - he misses.
Another one crossed out
How does Jesus' appeal
go in 'The Passion'?
errr....
"Howzat!! Come on umpire he was out by a mile!"?
Anyone know if..
...the Japanese manage to sink any US ships in Pearl Harbour?
Yes but...
Sadly not Michael Bay's career
I'm still
waiting for the film about the Titanic's trip back to England so I can watch them back to back