Word: elizabeth
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...blimey," since fully half of the acting prizes went to subjects of Her Royal Majesty. As one of the Brits said of Mirren and Judi Dench, her competition in the Best Actress category, "There are a lot of Dames out there." Mirren snagged two of the awards, for impersonating Elizabeth I (in Elizabeth I) on the small screen and her namesake (in The Queen) on the big one. Sacha Baron Cohen took Best Actor (Musical or Comedy) for Borat, and Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jeremy Irons and Emily Blunt won statuettes in the TV categories...
...Even though he's singing in English, we needed the subtitles.) Paul Groves gets all he can out of Gao Jianli, but the role as written here hasn't nearly the force of will, the sacred venom, that Ge You embodied in the film. Best among the principals is Elizabeth Futral as Yueyang: at once coquettish and ferocious, adroitly meeting the role's singing and acting requirements...
...Both look at each other, then at a painting of Elizabeth I on the wall behind them...
Unlike every president since 1672, Richard does not hold a degree from Harvard. She is tied to the University by her daughter, Elizabeth N. Dewar, who graduated from the College...
...seven-year term as vice-chancellor of Cambridge, the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one with a student body that is more than 5,000 larger than Harvard's. Cambridge's ceremonial chancellorship is held by Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth...