After watching Helen Mirren in The Queen and Dame Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal (go see this movie if/when it comes to Halifax. She’s wicked), I have to say that those two British ladies have more acting chops in their tiny tea-drinking fingers than a entire pot of Hollywood soup. Whatever that means. I’m just saying these actors rock the screen and if Beyonce takes a Best Actress award over either of them, I’ll do something drastic. It will involve popcorn and stinky nacho sauce.
This article appears in Jan 4-10, 2007.

