Meryl Streep won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. I think she did a very good job, but her makeup artists where the real stars of this show-they also won an Oscar. We shift from the past to the present and the actors playing the principals all undergo some dramatic changes. At one point I mistook another Minister for Margret’s husband, who has a co-starring role as a ghost/hallucination. You’ve seen one old British guy with huge glasses and you’ve seen then all. Not being an expert on Margaret Thatcher, I had to google her to find…
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The Social Network
Before The Social Network movie came out, I had never heard of Mark Zuckerberg. I certainly had never heard of the many other people who went to battle with him over the billion dollar empire that Facebook has become. And even now, just a couple of hours after watching The Social Network, I couldn’t tell you who any of these other people are. Other than the fact that two of them were twins with weird last names who rowed in the Olympics. But I did like the movie. There is something just flat out amazing about the idea that some…