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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Abortion NewsImplementation Of Oklahoma Ultrasound Law Blocked Until MarchMain Category: Also Included In: Article Date: 12 Nov 2008 - 6:00 PST Current Article Ratings: Patient / Public:Health Professional:Article Opinions: An Oklahoma law () that would make ultrasounds mandatory for women seeking abortions was blocked by court order on Oct. 29, just days before its scheduled Nov. 1 implementation,...
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The blog Film (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
You review: Easy VirtueWas Stephan Elliott's adaptation of Noel Coward's play a smooth viewing experience, or did you find the whole thing pretty hard going?'As brittle as a month-old piece of parked chewing gum' ... Easy VirtueAnother week, another period drama starring a great treasure of British acting as a disapproving matriarch. Following on from Emma Thompson's icy turn as Lady Marchmain...
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Boxwish (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
“It’s the most beautiful house I’ve ever seen,” gushes Charles Ryder ( Matthew Goode ) about Brideshead, the impressive stately pile he visits in the period drama and he’s not alone in thinking that way. Castle Howard stands in for Brideshead, the ancestral home to the Marchmain family in Brideshead Revisited and since the film’s release last month the number of tourists heading to the 18th...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
... splatters onto the screen.Colin Firth, whose Mr Whittaker is, for all intents and purposes, Lord Marchmain from Brideshead Revisited , sulks and mutters in a manner that would have appalled the crisp Coward, while the reliably wooden Biel speaks largely in anachronisms.Such inconsistencies of tone are, perhaps, forgivable, but Elliott's attempts to "jazz up" (as the kids say) the soundtrack...
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HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
... but beauty and glory in the Flytes' situation, but the family has had a pall cast over it by Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson), Sebastian and Julia's mother, a strict and humorless Catholic who has alienated her husband and crushed the spirit out of her children.... It's a well-acted film, with Whishaw and Thompson especially good. Jarrold has made a film that is pretty, as the genre requires,...
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HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
... but beauty and glory in the Flytes' situation, but the family has had a pall cast over it by Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson), Sebastian and Julia's mother, a strict and humorless Catholic who has alienated her husband and crushed the spirit out of her children.... It's a well-acted film, with Whishaw and Thompson especially good. Jarrold has made a film that is pretty, as the genre requires,...
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What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... of the book. The family is seriously worried about Rex’s lack of "spiritual curiosity," but Lady Marchmain respects her daughter’s freedom too much to interfere in her daughter’s marriage. Then, when it is discovered that Rex had been previously married and divorced, the Flyte family vigorously opposes the marriage and eventually Julia is cut off for leaving her faith to marry a divorced...
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Catholic and Loving it! (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... of the book. The family is seriously worried about Rex's lack of "spiritual curiosity," but Lady Marchmain respects her daughter's freedom too much to interfere in her daughter's marriage. Then, when it is discovered that Rex had been previously married and divorced, the Flyte family vigorously opposes the marriage and eventually Julia is cut off for leaving her faith to marry a divorced...
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First Drafts (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
1) Olivier vs GielgudEveryone knows that Laurence Olivier is more famous than John Gielgud. But here’s a curious thing. Gielgud was ezxtraordinary in the Granada ‘Bridehead’ as Charles Ryder’s father. It is unthinkable that the part could be played differently or better. Olivier was OK (as Olivier usually was on TV). But no better than OK as Lord Marchmain. No better, certainly, than Michael...
