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Linda Tanner: Looking after the kids

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:25:38 GMT

It doesn't have to be teaching, said the headmistress, there's always the civil service. The scene, from the film An Education, took me hurtling back through the decades.
Source: This is Bristol

Anti-racism initiatives by universities are failing to have an effect off campus

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:11:16 GMT

Muslim students have come under attack recently. Photograph: Jennifer Jacquemart/Rex In the hectic student calendar at Warwick University, week nine used to be given over to Rise Against Racism week.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Blu-ray Review: Howard's End

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:01:31 GMT

(click linked text below to jump to related section of the review) The words 'Merchant Ivory' have become a shorthand phrase for a very specific type of movie.
Source: High-Def Digest

Celebrity wine-lovers out-smart each other in aid of global poverty

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:17:04 GMT

Emma Thompson, Stephen Merchant, Jan Ravens, Shappi Khorsandi, Olly Smith, Lee Mack and Michael Ball became the most skilled of wine buffs and wine bluffers at ActionAid's celebrity fundraising event, Call My Wine Bluff.
Source: Reuters Alert Net

Movie review: Learning live lessons is 'An Education'

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:04:45 GMT

You can encapsulate the emotional stakes and the intelligence of "An Education" in a single exchange. It's 1961.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune

Louis Klarevas: Traffickers Without Borders: A "Journey" into the Life of a Child Victimized by Sex Trafficking

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:20:12 GMT

Slavery is alive and well in the 21st century.
Source: Huffington Post

Evelyn Leopold: Emma Thompson, Helen Bamber: Finding the Silent Scream

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:39:17 GMT

"The thing you have to remember is that torture victims often lose their voice twice. First during the experience of torture itself and then when they experience people turning their heads because they don't want to hear the story."
Source: Huffington Post

Kristin Maloney & Jessica Grove Lead SENSE & SENSIBILITY Staged Reading at Playwrights Horizons, 11/16

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:35:21 GMT

The musical - like the famous Jane Austen book and movie starring Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson of the same title -tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, as different as two sisters can be. Elinor is reserved, self-possessed, and rational to a fault.
Source: Broadway World

Quoted in 'Emma Thompson: I’ve had my heart broken so many times'

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:01:48 GMT

said in Celebitchy:

The Iron Lady… starring Emma Thompson as Margaret Thatcher and Hugh Grant as Ronald Reagan.

Quoted in 'Polanski Business: In Which Emma Thompson Breaks My Heart'

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:33:52 GMT

said in Shakesville:

Perhaps tomorrow Emma Thompson and Ang Lee will pop up on the list. Then the nightmare will be complete.

Photo from Getty Images

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:31:33 GMT

LONDON - SEPTEMBER 24: Emma Thompson arrives for the UK film premiere of 'Morris: A Life With Bells On' at the Prince Charles Cinema on September 24, 2009 in London, England.

Photo from Getty Images

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:31:08 GMT

LONDON - SEPTEMBER 24: (L-R) Harriet Walter, Emma Thompson and Jason Issacs arrive for the UK film premiere of 'Morris: A Life With Bells On' at the Prince Charles Cinema on September 24, 2009 in London, England.

Emma Thompson on Jay Leno

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:28:56 GMT