Word: judy
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...Lynd (Eva Green) was a British Treasury agent whose motives Bond misinterpreted, leading to her selfless suicide. Quantum, the first true sequel in the series, begins an hour after Casino ended. Bond wins a frantic car chase, and in his trunk is a prize for his MI6 boss, M (Judi Dench): a board member of the outlaw cartel once known as SPECTRE, now called Quantum. Instantly, Bond is running in all directions: pursuing and eluding a Quantum biggie named Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), hooking up with Bolivian siren Camille (Olga Kurylenko) and riding his own obsession to avenge Vesper...
...first reel, make him the victor and survivor. At one point on that narrow winding stretch he negotiates a 360-degree turn, maybe a 720 - with all the flashy editing it's hard to tell - and makes his way safely to a hideout where his boss M (Judi Dench) awaits. He has a lovely gift for her in the boot of the Aston Martin: a suave crime boss, Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), brought in for MI6's brand of extreme rendition...
...That same day Donovan, star of the F/X show Damages, told a crowd of 300 canvassers across town in Venice Beach about how nervous he was making his first phone calls for Obama. "I mean I've done Broadway with Judi Dench, but this was more nerve-wracking, I was calling in to people's homes," said Donovan, who spent much of last week with Obama in South Carolina and now heads to Minneapolis...
Star quality, or startling beauty, can be an affront to the rest of us, stirring envy and rancor. That may be what drives Barbara (Judi Dench), a drab, old teacher at a London school, to latch and leech onto a new instructor, the stunning, vulnerable, morally floundering Sheba (Cate Blanchett). Sad meets bad--or is it mad?--in this knowing, brutal comedy. Dench has maybe her best-ever movie role: a queen bee who deals in the honey of treachery...
...Butler went through weeks of strength training so he could portray the Spartan warrior, which your article dismissed as nothing more than "Hollywood pretty boys" bulking up. I saw 300 the day after its March 9 opening and thoroughly enjoyed both the visual effects and the acting. Judi Ross, Niles, Michigan...