BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: GUEST,Mary Brennan
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 07:45 PM

I just watched the DVD profile about Meryl Streep. She isn't a friendly lady at all. It showed those rude photographs taken at a Hollywood party a few years back in which she was photographed without underwear. It looked more like a cat with it's throat cut.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 07:11 AM

I'll be at the Argentine Embassy this evening so I'll ask them for likely candidates!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 04:26 AM

I'll go for Cristina Kirshner!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: GUEST,Mary Brennan
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 03:28 AM

I posted on here the other day suggesting that Jennifer Saunders should have the role. I think she'd be brilliant. However, I've since discovered that she has cancer - so maybe not.

I hope she makes a full recovery.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: GUEST,erbert
Date: 07 Jul 10 - 07:54 AM

..many folk here in the UK are surprised "Madonna" hasn't yet
demanded to play the role ??

and maybe Justin Timberlake as "Dennis" ???

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Jul 10 - 07:36 AM

Well if Streep can make a passable fist of the Dingo Baby Lady and the quiet home-loving wife in Bridges of Madison County I think she would make a reasonable fist of an assertive bombardier (I meant to say arrogant but there you are I would be bombardiered rather quickly).

Actually Helen Mirren would do a Thatcher just as well.

Anyway - if it is Hollywood doing it, Thatcher will have American ancestors and be far too reverential to the president.
Dare we mention her Bush?

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 07 Jul 10 - 07:01 AM

Interesting, but sad nevertheless.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 06 Jul 10 - 07:17 PM

At the time I was serving on the Conqueror...go look it up.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 06 Jul 10 - 05:02 AM

"As for Bonzo3legs comment on the Belgrano sinking, it was sunk because she was considered a threat to the British fleet. The fact she had a large number of conscripts on board is not relevant."

Not wishing to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man, I'd wager a hat full of guineas against all of the songs you can sing, that you know nothing more than the distorted half of the story presented by the media at the time.

But there were a large number of conscripts on board - there's no getting away from that, if it's all the same to you!!!

Still, you can't beat a bife chorizo with papas fritas in BA!!

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 06 Jul 10 - 02:57 AM

Who's this we?

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 02:54 AM

Argentine

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 10:55 PM

Will Streep weild an extra big handbag....the idea of MT handbagging the European leaders still amuses me.

As for Bonzo3legs comment on the Belgrano sinking, it was sunk because she was considered a threat to the British fleet. The fact she had a large number of conscripts on board is not relevant.

She was armed with Exocet missiles and very heavy guns. Yes she was steaming away from the area when sunk but she could have turned around in 10 minutes or less.

Following her sinking all other surface units stayed in port or well out of the area and therefore there was no further loss of life in the Argentinian Navy.

We knew they still had a couple of small diesal/electric submarines at sea, very quiet and we never did find them.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Mr Fox
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 07:42 PM

Brigitte (Jennifer Saunders) Neilsen did it better

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 09:06 AM

Hmm Streep doing her touchy-feely mannerisms at a Cabinet meeting......

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Micca
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 07:55 AM

Perhaps DeNiro as Nigel Lawson and Ben Kingsley as John Nott?( he of the sepulchral announcements during the Falklands thingy) maybe John Hurt as Norman StJohn Stevas, and maybe George Clooney as Norman Lamont?

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 06:41 AM

I've heard on the grapevine that Mel Gibson is to play Edward Heath ... or is that just a 'Tinseltown' rumour?

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Micca
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 05:55 AM

No,No, David Carter the creature of the night was Michael Howard, Not Margaret, howabout John Goodman as Willie Whitelaw and Al Pacino as Norman Tebbitt?

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: David C. Carter
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 04:00 AM

Just take the German film "Nosferatu,The phantom of The Night"with Klaus Kinski,and change the title!


I'll get me handbag.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 02:05 AM

"would you prefer the Argentinians to have slaughtered the entire poulation of the Falkland Islands , Amigo ??"

Argentines please - someone is Argentine or is an Argentine. Argentinian was invented by the British gutter press during Las Malvinas war.

Anglo-Argentines are just that.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Jul 10 - 07:03 PM

"would you prefer the Argentinians to have slaughtered the entire poulation of the Falkland Islands , Amigo ??

As it happens, bubblyrat, the only Falklanders killed in the war were three women, Mrs Susan Whitley, Mrs Doreen Bonner and Mrs Mary Goodwin, accidental victims of British shelling - see here.

After all, there are about 100,000 Anglo-Argentinians.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Mavis Enderby
Date: 03 Jul 10 - 03:16 AM

"Meryl Streep as Thatcher"

Is she doing roofing now? I don't need any thatching, but do have a bit of flat roof that needs sorting. She can give me a quote if she likes...

Pete.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jul 10 - 01:49 AM

Hey, Meryl Streep played Julia Child - why not Thatcher?

Actually, I like Streep most of the time. She even sings quite well.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 08:04 PM

I thought I was the only person left in America who wasn't enamored of Meryl Streep. Almost every movie she's in bores me to tears. I don't hate her however.

But Tom Hanks- that overrated blowhard - is another story.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 05:12 PM

"I think the only person who could have acted the role of Thatcher with real conviction was Dennis Hopper."

Great call JC :)

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 03:41 PM

And of course, Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill........

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 03:13 PM

I think the only person who could have acted the role of Thatcher with real conviction was Dennis Hopper.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 03:07 PM

"Meryl Streep as Thatcher"
And Jack Nicholson as General Pinochet - surely!
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 02:08 PM

ok fellas.... let's get back to the topic. Streep as Thatcher? I think it works.

Thatcher was over poised to the point of pretentious and Streep does that to the nines.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 07:03 AM

For starters 323 sailors on the Belgrano, many of whom were conscripts. Poulation - yes they may have slaughtered a few chickens!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: bubblyrat
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 05:53 AM

So whom did she murder then ?? Or would you prefer the Argentinians to have slaughtered the entire poulation of the Falkland Islands , Amigo ??

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 05:35 AM

Saw an excellent production of a play called "Sink the Belgrano" at Tonbridge School in the south of England last year - it was actually an exam project for the boys. It was superb, and of course thatcher was played by a boy - and very well too!!

I would suggest that a man should play the part of the murdering bitch!!

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 04:17 AM

Eek, Streep? She's quite charisma free and cardboardy. Love her or loathe her, Thatcher had a very imposing presence which Streep could never pull off. (an English) Bette Davis is the only actress I can imagine actually succeeding. Though Miranda Richardson could give it a good try.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 03:21 AM

Spitting Image did Thatcher perfectly.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Ron Davies
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 11:23 PM

As I said, I misread it--but the misreading is quite a picture.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Amergin
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 10:52 PM

I'm so tired of Streep....she always grossly over acts, and is very much full of herself....

BTW, they were talking about how Streep and Phyllida Lloyd worked together in Mamma Mia.

Subject: RE: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Ron Davies
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 09:24 PM

I was also thinking this might be a folklore thread.   But maybe not.

Subject: BS: Meryl Streep as Thatcher
From: Ron Davies
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 09:21 PM

I'd think that in itself would qualify as "News of the Weird".

Somebody must think there's a market for such a movie. Will it be seen as a comedy?

Of course the way I read the AP article is a perfect illustration of the hazards of skimming or speed-reading.

I read it:   ..."it tells the story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in the Abba musical 'Mamma Mia!' ".