Queen Elizabeth’s dad is portrayed in film again this year in ‘Hyde Park on the Hudson,” starring Bill Murray
Tag Archives: The King’s Speech
Things The King’s Speech was silent about
I got the book The King’s Speech for Christmas and just finished it; in the very wide field of “slender material adapted into a thrilling hit movie, on whose strength it is then flogged”, it must be some kind of record-breaker. I enjoyed the book, as a reader with about a degree-and-a-half in European history and a keen interest in the pre-war period, but I do not have the creative imagination to have imagined it as fodder for Hollywood. The plain fact is that Lionel Logue scored his big breakthrough in treating the Duke of York (the future King George VI) very quickly, taking a matter of literally a few weeks in late 1926 to help him overcome his stammer and to raise his oratorical abilities to a standard of adequacy. After that time, Logue was consulted very occasionally, serving the King as a sort of good-luck totem on major occasions like the Coronation.
The rehabilitation of Wallis Simpson
Two new biographies and a film by Madonna attempt to change our perception of ‘that woman’
Newsmakers: May 5-12, 2011
Donald Trump gets sued, Rita Chretien is found alive, and Don Cherry is angry about something again
Cringing, while waiting for my fantasy lover
Best Actor Colin Firth didn’t disappoint. He gave an amusing, literate acceptance speech.
Why Harvey Weinstein wants to cut ‘The King’s Speech’
Sanitizing the Oscar front-runner is just the movie mogul’s latest outrage
‘Social Network’ rules, but Colin and Natalie are prom king and queen
Fincher and Sorkin friend Zuckerberg; Giamatti thanks “the great nation of Canada”
Top 10 movies of 2010
Brian D. Johnson picks his personal favourites from the year’s silver-screen releases
Horrifically good movies
The best movies of 2010
No more the forgotten king
A new movie and book remove shy George VI from history’s footnotes