Thai Princess Hits Silver Screen
CHEN: The princess of Thailand was at the Cannes film festival in France yesterday. There she presented her movie “Where the Miracle Happens.” Let’s get a sneak peak. STORY: The film tells the story of a successful businesswoman named Pimdao who loses her daughter in a car crash and is also played by the princess. Pimdao is seriously injured and gets a heart transplant from her daughter. She decides to renounce materialism, change her life and to travel to rural regions and develop schools, a way to redeem herself and atone for her sins. While fighting against poverty, her body rejects her transplant. She knows that she has not much time left. The princess says her character in the film was quite similar to her in real life. [Ubolratana Rajakanya, Thai Princess]; “This character is kind of similar to myself, so I guess I got to like myself, I think, you know, that the character, the personality and the experience are kind of similar to mine and I’m not saying that it’s easy to do, to act as this character, to be, you know, this person but the closest to yourself, the harder it gets.” The princess says it’s been her dream to work in the entertainment industry since she was a child. [Ubolratana Rajakanya, Thai Princess]; “In fact my mind always wanted to be like all the kids now, you know, they want to be in the entertainment industry, I always loved to sing and to act when I was a kid and like…you know I told everybody that came before you that people ask you when you …
Small Screen | Spike Lee Goes Back to New Orleans, Two French Classics on Criterion & More
Small Screen | Spike Lee Goes Back to New Orleans, Two French Classics on Criterion & More
Four years after Spike Lee’s two-part documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts” debuted on HBO, Lee follows it up with “If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise,” another look at the country’s gulf communities in and around New Orleans. While the focus will be on the communities’ ability to rebuild and stick together years down the line from Hurricane Katrina, Lee has implied …
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Musical Sapphires set for the big screen
Musical Sapphires set for the big screen
WANTED: four young Aboriginal women with big personalities and even bigger voices to play a 1960s Motown girl group in a new Australian movie.
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Screen Talk: Miramax tussle
Screen Talk: Miramax tussle
For many movie-industry players, this year’s Cannes festival and its accompanying wheeler-dealer shindig was as much about a deal not struck as about those that were.
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Meryl Streep is an Absolute Legend as the Most Honored Screen Icon
This absolute legend of an actress was proclaimed the most gifted film actress of the late 20th century and considered to the greatest living film actress. Meryl Streep (born Mary Louise Streep) is to-date the most honored actress of all time.
As film actor, song performer, executive producer, narrator and voice actor she is known to be a perfectionist in her craft, meticulous and painstaking in preparing for her roles. Her ability to master almost any accent as called for in some roles she portrayed in her films is renowned as proven by her heartbreakingly realistic portrayal of a Polish holocaust survivor in Sophie’s Choice. Movie Critics then proclaimed her as the foremost contemporary dramatic screen actress.
Streep has graced theater, television, film and music industry, acting in 61 films, participating in 8 soundtracks including the much acclaimed “Mama Mia”, 151 TV appearances. Her name consistently makes it to the Empire’s Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time, Entertainment Weekly’s Greatest Movie Stars of All Time and Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. She was even ranked 6th on EW’s The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood. From 1984 to 1990, Streep won six People’s Choice Awards for Favorite Motion Picture Actress and, in 1990, was named World Favorite.
As of 2009, Streep holds the record for the most acting Academy Award nominations received by any actor with 15, two of which she won as Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and Best Actress for Sophie’s Choice in 1982. Sharing the record of the most Golden Globe wins (six) with Angela Lansbury and Jack Nicholson, Streep has the most nomination with 23. Earning three Emmy, 5 Grammy, 11 Screen Actors Guild, 12 BAFTA, and 1 Tony Awards nominations, she has won for herself 2 Emmys, 1 BAFTA, 2 SAGs, one Cannes Film Festival and 3 New York Film Critics Awards.
Fragile with her elegant facial bone structure, intelligent blue eyes and nearly translucent pale skin, Streep exudes intelligence, breeding, depth and versatility as an actress epitomizing a true screen icon, making her an absolute legend as one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era.