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...originally reluctant to see the Wright-Knightley duo assault another one of my favorite books. Many would claim that, with “Pride and Prejudice,” Wright successfully dealt with the doubly difficult task of interpreting an iconic book and remaking a cult classic film (the BBC version with a famously shirtless, young, and hot Colin Firth). And by any measurement, “Pride and Prejudice” wasn’t a bad movie, though the final scenes took the romance to nauseatingly clichéd levels with a never-ending sunset kiss that caused...
...very good news," Darwin's 90-year old father, Ronald, told TIME. The elderly Darwin has said his son was hit by a car as a child, and suggested he may have incurred amnesia from the ensuing head injury. Darwin's own adult sons told the BBC that when they met their father this week, he told them that he couldn't recall anything since June...
...audience away with a new, electric sound. And the fact that a woman is playing the role of Dylan proves equally as shocking and strange for the modern audience as his electric playing was when it first appeared in the mid 1960s. Jude’s exchanges with BBC interviewer Mr. Jones, played by Bruce Greenwood, also supply some of the most engaging dialogue in the film. Aside from serving as a mere biography of Dylan’s life, the film brings to life many of his popularized media images. Cleverly written into the script are quotes from interviews...
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...vision for the BBC articulated by Thompson is that it will go on doing what it has been doing but with fewer people, a greater impact and higher standards. Quality is the key, whether it's straight news or comedy that spills out of a character's absurdly tight latex outfit. It's the only way the Beeb can bear out this claim by Byford: "The BBC is here to make the world a better place." Perhaps it has to start at home...