My Favorite Things

Frankie: My gynecologist says you should not put anything in your vagina that you would not put in your mouth. I call it “vagacadabra.”

“Being funny is all to do with being confident and not minding.”

Maggie Smith as Betsey Trotwood - David Copperfield (1999)

Meryl Streep | The Iron Lady, 2011

I find Lady Tremaine and Jasmine French quite similar. They are both had a husband who died, they had everything: they were rich and had a very wealthy life. They both understands that in order to succeed in this world you need money that comes from a man (Especially a wealthy man). Both of them found themselves alone in the world: without kids or without successful kids (it doesn’t really matter). Both of them want to rebuild their life again, to get a man, to live good life again. AND FOR BOTH it doesn’t work out. The beautiful thing about it is the different directions these characters are going through: while Jasmine brakes to little pieces you see Lady Tremaine becomes more and more evil. They are strong women that the world was bad to.

“Ever since I popped out of the womb, I wanted to be in a musical, but I never thought I could sing except in the bathroom. Mrs. Lovett, I wanted to be her since I was eleven. And I went around apparently in Mrs. Lovett hairdos.”

Last time Helen Mirren was here, she taught Jimmy some valuable lessons in Mirren, Mirren!