Word: judie
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WILL WIN Count out Christie, whose film was barely seen (and not that great), and Winslet, who delivered lines like "I'd rather be Jack's whore than your wife!" In the Dueling British Ladies contest, Judi Dench in Mrs. Brown, who won the Golden Globe, has more momentum than The Wings of the Dove's Helena Bonham Carter. So the race is between Dench and Helen Hunt, also a Globe winner. Give Hunt the edge, since she won the Screen Actors Guild and is the only American nominee--that's how Tomei beat four Limeys...
Four years ago, the Long Beach Unified School District, the third largest in California, decided to change over to "standards-based" education and to initiate a mandatory school-uniform policy. At the same time, Stanford principal Judi Gutierrez embarked on a program to restructure and reform her school. She created schools within the school, one for each of the three grades, with a "learning director" heading a core group of teachers. She allowed the students to pick their own mottoes--in the sixth grade, it's "Begin the Journey...Stride into Excellence." Gutierrez also stressed staff development, sending teachers...
This might be a Gaslight-style melodrama. Mrs. Brown, though, is a true story, about Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and her long grief after Prince Albert's death. When her intimacy with Brown (Billy Connolly) becomes known, demands to abolish the monarchy ring through Parliament, forcing Prime Minister Disraeli (Antony Sher) to call on Brown. Her Majesty must be coaxed out of hibernation and back to her people...
...Brown is a devoted servant or a devious bully and whether the Queen's long bereavement is partly stubbornness masquerading as principle. It also provides a field day for some wonderful actors too little seen on this side of the Atlantic. Sher is a wily, puckish delight; and Dame Judi, her face clamped in anguish, radiates the stern ecstasy of grief. This queen of English understatement embodies Victoria's belief: that mourning is the only way survivors can consummate their love for the dead...
...MOVIES . . . MRS. BROWN: 'Mrs. Brown' is the true story how of Queen Victoria (Judi Dench), locked in grief after Prince Albert's death, has her death-in-life is changed by a humble horseman named John Brown. He speaks boldly to her and rudely to her children. He takes her on long walks, gives her counsel; most important, he makes her laugh. "Nicely, the movie lets viewers decide whether Brown is a devoted servant or a devious bully and whether the Queen?s long bereavement is partly stubbornness masquerading as principle," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "It also provides...