May 25, 2007

Helen Mirren is a Peach-Flavoured Glamazon


Glenn: Hi Helen.

Helen: Hello young chap.

Glenn: Can I just say I adore your dress.

Helen: Why thank you, sonny jim.

Glenn: Seriously. That dress!

Helen: This ol' thing? I just popped it on. It was this or trackies and slippers to be honest. I always have that last-second thought "I should just go casual!"

Glenn: I don't believe that for a second, but it's okay because you look positively edible. Like some peach-flavoured glamazon! Man, I love peach-flavoured things. I also love you.

Helen: Oh, pish-posh. Just because I'm wearing a divine dress, my hair is impeccable and my make-up is flattering, doesn't mean I'm better than people, even though I did just win an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA, and a SAG award and, well, I won every single award possible. I'm just like everyone else. I'm a simple English lass.

Glenn: I want to ravage your dress.

Helen: ...

Glenn: Even that potentially outfit-derailing broche thing. I want it all.

Helen: This conversation is over.

Glenn: YOU DIDN'T DESERVE THE OSCAR.

**WORLD EXPLODES**


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9 comments:

J.D. said...

Uh... what was that Glenn?

(And she did. Deal with it.)

Anonymous said...

Yeah...she did. very deserved

Glenn Dunks said...

I'd be much more inclined to argue if I didn't just love Helen Mirren. She's a classy gal.

But, I just didn't think she was all that. But, meh, it's done with now.

J.D. said...

As long as you say she was good, that's all I care about on that.

But... what was that? It seems like something that would be opening in 3 arthouse theaters in NYC and then become an agent of the devil and be aired on E! WTF?

Glenn Dunks said...

I was bored and found that picture at Go Fug Yourself.

Anonymous said...

LOL: Actually I think that dress is more LEMON-FLAVORED (it is actually a light, butter yellow)

After viewing "The Queen",I have to agree with the previous posters - she truly deserved her Oscar and, no offense, but I believe a great deal of the backlash against her Oscar win is due to simple cattiness (MEEEEOOOWWWW!!!)

Glenn Dunks said...

I don't think there's much of a backlash at all. I just really really really loved Penelope Cruz in Volver. Some of the finest work of the decade.

Anonymous said...

"I don't think there's much of a backlash at all. I just really really really loved Penelope Cruz in Volver. Some of the finest work of the decade."

I get your meaning - I thought Heath Ledger was letter-perfect in "Brokeback Mountain" but, I wouldn't go so far as to say that Philip Seymour Hoffman DIDN'T deserve his Oscar for "Capote".

I don't think Penelope Cruz had much chance of winning anyway, Helen Mirren or no Helen Mirren. Let's face it - if Mirren hadn't won, it probably would gone to Dame Judi Dench or Meryl Streep (now, THAT would truly have been an undeserved Oscar, IMO [no offense to Meryl Streep who I love madly but, come on, "Prada" was hardly one of her vintage performances])

Glenn Dunks said...

PSH, as much as I loathe him, was my #3 from 2005 (after Ledger and Gordon-Levitt) so while I think Ledger's performance is the male performance of the decade, I don't feel that horrified that he lost.

But as much as I liked Helen Mirren and liked her performance I just didn't think she was anything amazing and special.

But, to each their own.