Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Prime Suspect

This had to be the greatest P.S. ever. Helen Mirren can do no wrong in the part. Who cares if the "crime" part of it works? She is giving us a character to remember for eternity. She is at the same time: tragic, strong, vulnerable, difficult, caring, interesting, intelligent, wrong-headed, and endlessly real. She has sacrificed everything for her career, if any of what she sacrificed was ever in her grasp. Hard to imagine Jane in any other setting.
Has their ever been a better year for an actress than Elizabeth I, The Queen, and the final Prime Suspect?

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