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Downton Abbey’s Stock Falls Off the Fiscal Cliff
DATELINE: HUMOR! Living in a large country house in England in 1920 apparently is not much different than living in a large white house in Washington, D.C., in 2013. A fiscal cliff seems to be around...
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Quartet Sounds Like a Rap on Old Age
DATELINE: MOVIE MASHUP! Maggie Smith with Pauline Collins Can we really be on a roll of great character driven dramas? Quartet is a surprise, not because the cast features all the old stars of...
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Walking Across Downton Abbey Roads
DATELINE: PRESTIGIOUS TV Murderers Row? No, Just the Unhappy Staff of Downton Abbey It’s been a year since we last saw the Upstairs/Downstairs clone of PBS revisited. Of course, Eaton Place was...
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Down the Primrose Path to Downton Abbey
DATELINE: MOVIE MASHUP & TV SMASHUP Having tuned into Downton Abbey again this week, we were amused to see that it is now revealed that Bates the valet has a first name. It’s Norman Bates. Yes,...
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Eaton Place, Gosford Park, Downton Abbey? High Rent Stuff
MOVIE MASHUP With the final season of Downton Abbey nearly a year away, we decided to give ourselves a fix with the movie that helped Julian Fellowes decide to write the hit TV show. We refer to...
View ArticleTurn of the Screw Meets Downton Abbey
DATELINE: Strange Fellowes Julian Fellowes held some out of town tryouts before his big hit with the upper crust Downton Abbey. Gathering together two of his principals (Maggie Smith, Hugh...
View ArticleNothing Like Four Dames
DATELINE: Great Actresses Reminisce. Grandstanding with the Grand Dames If you like good conversation with witty old ladies over tea and champagne, you may find Tea with the Dames quite your cuppa hot...
View ArticleDownton Abbey: the Movie!
DATELINE: Moving On Up! The classic TV series returns with a feature film, and the King and Queen of England are coming to dinner. You too, even a commoner, are invited to be a fly on the wall, which...
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