"Sianlover" <sianlover@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news
> [NB: I am posting this here because Sian _was_ in Lynch's "Dune"; if
this
> is inappropriate then please accept my apologies.]
This is, of course, a Dune discussion group. So if this stimulates a
discussion, I guess it's fine. If not, apologies accepted. ;-)
>
> Hi
>
> I would be very grateful if you would consider signing my petition to
have
> the wondrous joy to all Humanity that is Sian Phillips accorded the
long-
> overdue honour of "Dame of the British Empire":
>
> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/dbe4sianphillips/
>
> For those who do not know, Sian is a septuagenarian Welsh actress who
has
> been in oodles and oodles of stuff, some sublimely classy, some woefully
> crappy. Just to mention a few, I would begin by saying she is
> unquestionably most famous for her ****trayal of Livia Drusilla in
> theclassic BBC adaptation of Robert Graves' "I, Claudius".
I loved the "I, Claudius" series, and I didn't even realize that Sian
Phillips was in that until you mentioned it. But now that you mention it,
she was great in that.
> She has also been Hedda Gabler and Emmeline Pankhurst, and she made
> baldness and silver teeth look good as Gaius Helen Mohiam in David
Lynch's
> "Dune". She was Boadicea (Or Boudicca, if you prefer), Eleanor of
> Aquitaine, and Alice's Red Queen (in rather fetching red latex) in an
odd
> adaptation called "Through the Looking Glass".
I think I missed that "Through the Looking Glass" role, and some of the
others.
> She was also quite scrumptious as Madame de Volanges in the pretty but
> mind-numbingly boring "Valmont".
>
> --
> Sianlover
Do you really think this petition will help Sian Phillips become "Dame of
the British Empire"? This seems unlikely somehow.
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