Conference bookie::movies

    
    	Yes, tell us.
    

    Kewl!
    
    Mrs. [Ewen? or something like that] is played by
    
      Juliet Stevenson, looking in "Emma" very angular and taut-skinned
    and almost leathery, not at all like her character in...
    
             "Truly Madly Deeply"!
    
    Siskel & Ebert loved TMD, as did I, when I finally found it on
    broadcast TV a few years after the fact.  I taped it & have watched
    it at least 5 times, loving the concept & execution of it equally as
    much as viewing the inexplicably attractive Alan Rickman :-)
    
    Stevenson's character in "Emma" is lots of fun--a brash intruder into
    the carefully ordered society, and one who is vulgar enough at the
    dinner table to speak with her mouth full >:-O
    
    Leslie

    
    	Well, I was hoping I'd heard of her so I could chime in with
    	what I KNEW she'd done before, but I've never seen either
    	movie and the name doesn't ring a bell so I'll crawl back
    	into my corner now.
    

    I saw "Emma"last week. I was very pleased with it. For someone who's
    read the book several times over, I was dreading some awful changes in
    the story, but there were no glaring ones, save the necessary changes
    due to movie length vs. book time.
    
    Gwynneth Paltrow was indeed delightful, I was surprised she held up an
    English accent so well, I never noticed her slipping (and I tend to
    notice those things!) The actress who played Harriet Smith whose names
    escapes me (she played Muriel in Muriel's Wedding) was also very good,
    although her character was the most changed from the book. The other 
    character somewhat changed was the Miss Bates character (the old
    spinster from previous entry), but this was an improvement.
    Unfortunately, this leads to the only flaw I saw in the movie. See 
    after form feeds.
    
    The lighting and sets and scenery were wonderful. A very feel-good
    movie! BTW, for another treatment of Emma, see last year's "Clueless",
    now on video. 
    
    
    Marilyn
    
    
    
    
    
     The only problem with changing Miss Bates character was that this Miss
    Bates was such a sweetheart, albeit a very mousy person. It was hard
    to understand why Emma would be so cruel to someone like that, but in
    the book she is an insufferable bore, so the insult is more
    understandable.

    re .3, Sorry, I was afraid the movie I'd seen her in was too obscure
    :-(
    
    re .4, Miss Bates,
    
    I think Emma had just been "stung" rather unfairly by the rector's wife
    (I simply cannot remember the surname!), who huffed off, so Emma lashed 
    out at the nearest available irritant.  Although Emma's comment was 
    extremely rude and unprovoked, I thought it was very funny >:-}  
    --as my eyes filled up in sympathy for the poor thing!  That scene--
    Miss Bates' gradual realization that there could be no other reason for
    Emma's comment than thoughtless cruelty--IMO should put "Miss B" in the
    running for an academy award.
    
    Leslie  

    
    	Oh, I've heard of "Truly Madly Deeply" but have never seen it.
    

She was also featured in "Drowing by Numbers" (the only other thing on her
resume that I recognized).

I'm afraid I only enjoyed parts of this movie, and it started very slowly. 
But Paltrow was a delight to watch, and I particularly liked "Mr. Knightly"!

    Wasn't Juliet Stevenson the star of a Masterpiece Theater piece on TV
    last winter about the wife of a member of Parliament who "wins in the
    end"??

Biographical data
Name:  Stevenson, Juliet


Filmography as Actress
1.Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1983) (TV) [Thaisa]
2.Oedipus at Colonus (1984) (TV) [Antigone]
3.Antigone (1984) (TV) [Antigone]
4.Race for the Double Helix, The (1987) (TV) [Rosalind Franklin]
... aka Life Story (1987) (TV)
5.Drowning by Numbers (1987) [Cissie Colpitts 2]
6.Living With Dinosaurs (1989) (TV) [Vicky]
7.Aimee (1990)
8.Doll's House, A (1991) (TV) [Nora Helmer]
9.Truly Madly Deeply (1991) [Nina]
... aka Cello (1991)
10.In the Border Country (1991)
11.Trial, The (1993) [Fraulein Burstner]
12.Secret Rapture, The (1993) [Isobel Coleridge]
13."Politician's Wife, The" (1995) (mini) [Flora Matlock]
14.Emma (1996) [Mrs. Elton]

[Above data from a local installation--using xregal--of the Internet Movie
Database.]

    The Politician's Wife was tremendous.
    
    Sue

>    The Politician's Wife was tremendous.

... So was his daughter <snigger> !