Queen Wins Best Actress Award
Among the many surprise winners at this year’s Venice Film Festival was Her Majesty the Queen, who won the best actress award for her unflinching portrayal of Dame Helen Mirran in the big-screen remake of Prime Suspect. Said Her Majesty after receiving a Golden Gondolier from last year’s winner, Dame Barbara Windsor, ‘one did awfully well to remember one’s lines so I think one deserved this.’ The Queen admitted that she is not looking forward to her next performance. ‘I have to read the Queen’s speech,’ she explained. ‘Which one might think is fine if only it were really one’s own, but it’s written by that Blair fellow. He’s hardly Lynda La Plante, though one think he fancies himself as a the next Dame Tom Stoppard. Charles always says he reminds one of that David Dickinson but I hardly see the resemblance…’
September 10th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
okay, David, I didn’t completely ‘get ‘ this one, what with all the Dames that litter the story. But the Queen has to be a pretty damned good actress to look as though she is permanantly constipated, or as though sh’e cultivating some diamonds up her jack. One twitch and you could have the next biggest stone ever ‘grown’ in a human laboratory.
September 10th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
Sorry, very tired when I did this one. Helen Mirren does seem to be more royal than the Queen though…
September 11th, 2006 at 2:31 am
I think it’s excellent that Helen Mirren won…hooray!
–RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com
September 11th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Helen Mirren is definitely more regal! But poor Queen having to tolerate a script by The Vicar of Downing Street. How does one put up with these things?
September 11th, 2006 at 10:49 am
I thought you meant Richard Curtis then, Atyllah. Now I come to think of it, perhaps he should be in the running for Number 10. At least we’d occasionally get a funny one-liner.
September 11th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Well, it would certainly be an improvement on the current twenty-liners!