Baroness Thatcher

[bill]

Scottish actress and comic Janet Brown, who was best known for impersonating former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, dies aged 87.

Who will be next??

[numberplease]

She was a brilliant performer, R.I.P

[bill]

Mrs.Thatcher's black Asbury handbag is set for the auction room this coming Monday.It is expected to raise £100,000,proceeds towards cancer research.


any offers ?

[bill]

What a bargain,sold for £25,000.

Among the other lots on sale were a Fender Telecaster guitar given by Eric Clapton, which fetched £15,000 .Does that mean that Mrs.T.is more popular than Clapton?

All proceeds went to charities.

[Hume]

What's so good about the old bag Bill?

[EMDEE]

Quote from daughter Carol Thatcher in paper today:

"I hope that the highest bidder knows that if he's into handbagging, he's got a weapon with quite a track record."

[bill]

Hume,when the country is in mourning as we watch her state funeral the price of that old bag will quadruple.

[bill]

Happy birthday Mrs.T.

[EMDEE]

When I saw that ""The Iron Lady" was on TV tonight I decided to watch it, as I thought it would be interesting. It was indeed, but I had thought that it was more of a biographical film than it seems to be. I don't know what the Thatcher Family think of it, but I wasn't aware that the main portrayal of her is as a confused and lonely old woman with flashbacks and hallucinations, and the film seemed to give more emphasis to this than her life story and achievements. If this was a relative of mine I would see this as an insult. Maybe I'm missing the point of the film.

[Govangirl]

There is no way I would even want to watch this, I try most of the time to pretend she never existed despite now living in a country she dreamed about. However, if it does in fact focus on this, it reminds me of when Spitting Image used to make fun of the Alzheimer's-ridden Ronnie Reagan while he was still alive. I had no time for him either but I felt deeply uncomfortable at that.
I think though that a much better film will be made when the thirty year information disclosure block expires. Oh yes, THAT will be a much more interesting film about the evil stain on our history.

Still, Meryl Streep's (and Faith Brown's) imitation of the tyrant will always be better than Thatcher's imitation of a human being.