On Jul 30, 1:26=A0am, comadrejo wrote:
> In article ,
>
> =A0Twitchell wrote:
> >http://www.showbiz411.com/2010/07/29/madonna-film-on-the-windsors-wal...
> > llis
>
> > Madonna=92s directing her first feature film in the United Kingdom. The=
word
> > is,
> > it=92s a mess. Are we surprised? =93The crew turnover is constant,=94 s=
ays one
> > source.
> > Says another: =93The movie may be brilliant, but it=92s unlikely anyone=
working
> > on
> > it will to live to see it finished.=94
>
> =A0 She should either give up her film dreams, or go to film school.. =A0=
She
> can't act, she can't write and she can't direct. =A0She has a knack for
> fashion, makeovers, and dance. =A0She should do a musical, instead about
> the Abdication =A0Crisis in 1936. =A0 Besides, Wallis was an excuse for t=
he
> Abdication Crisis, =A0The British Establishment didn't want ...s King=
,
> and they were right in hindsight.
>
>
>
> > Madonna is =93micro managing everything.=94 they say. =93Everything has=
to be
> > approved
> > by her. Everything.=94
>
> > Madonna Louise Ciccone from the Detroit area is now such an Anglophile =
that
> > she
> > is obsessed with the saga of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In case y=
ou=92ve
> > never seen or read =93Edward and Mrs. Simpson,=94 and haven=92t studied=
this
> > history:
> > King Edward abdicated the throne in order to marry an American commoner=
,
> > Wallis
> > Simpson. She was already married at the time. Edward=92s brother George
> > ascended
> > to the throne, thus setting the stage for the current occupants of Buck=
ingham
> > Palace. Queen Elizabeth is Edward=92s niece.
>
> > I=92ve just read the January draft of =93W.E.=94 which is said to have =
been revised
> > many times over since then. But the basic premise is still in place. Ma=
donna
> > and
> > Alek Keshishian have written the Windsor story as if it were =93Wally a=
nd
> > Wallis=94=96as in =93Julie and Julia=94 =97 or =93The Hours.=94 The scr=
ipt cuts back and
> > forth
> > between a modern young woman named Wally and the imagined events of the
> > distant
> > past with Wallis Simpson. Eventually they meet=96impossibly=96as contem=
porary
> > Wally
> > draws strength from Wallis.
>
> > To make matters more stressful, Wally even goes to London and finds Moh=
ammed
> > el-Fayed, the real guy, and convinces him to let her read Wallis Simpso=
n=92s
> > letters. (He owns them now.) I don=92t know if Mohammed el-Fayed is in =
the
> > shooting script, but if he is, Madonna is unlikely to be partying with =
the
> > Queen
> > any time soon. el-Fayed is famously the owner of Harrod=92s and father =
of the
> > late
> > Dodi Fayed, who died with Princess Diana. Queen Elizabeth is well known=
for
> > her
> > distaste of el-Fayed, to be sure.
>
> > =93W.E.=94 is filming now. You can bet Madonna will try and get it into=
Cannes
> > next
> > May. The waiting, as Tom Petty sings, is the hardest part.
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You're dead on that Edward did not want to be king, and he used
Wallis Simpson as a way to unload that obligation.
Without a doubt he was the most handsome male of that line.
I think he was something of a celebrity among the debutantes of
the 1920's.
The one who said Madonna could not make a decent movie
obviously did not see the film EVITA .
David H |
