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Helen Mirren to be given lifetime achievement award
16 November 2009 10:28 PM, PST
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London, Nov 16 (Ians) Veteran actress Helen Mirren is to be conferred with a lifetime achievement award for her contribution to cinema.
The Oscar-winner will be presented with the trophy at the 19th annual Women in Film and Television Awards here next month, reports imdb.com.
Event organisers say Mirren will receive the honour for her ‘outstanding and lasting contribution to film and television’.
Previous winners of the award include former Bond girl Dame Diana Rigg, multi Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn, and ‘Educating Rita’ star Julie Walters.
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Mirren Set For Lifetime Achievement Award
16 November 2009 4:06 AM, PST
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Veteran actress Dame Helen Mirren is to be awarded a lifetime achievement honour for her contribution to the film industry.
The Queen Oscar-winner will be presented with the trophy at the 19th annual Women in Film and Television Awards in London next month.
Event organisers say Mirren will receive the honour for her "outstanding and lasting contribution to film and television".
Previous winners of the award include former Bond girl Dame Diana Rigg, multi Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn, and Educating Rita star Julie Walters.
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Srt's 'Sonnet Sings the Bard' Benefit to Feature Shaiman, Wittman, Shire & More, 11/16; Seth Rudetsky Hosts
2 November 2009 12:36 PM, PST
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Sonnet Repertory Theatre (Srt) has announced its scheduled line-up for 'Sonnet Sings the Bard' concert, which takes place on November 16 at the 92YTribeca. Contributing composers to this one-night-only benefit event include: Tony, Grammy, Emmy and Drama Desk Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated composers and lyricists Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman (Hairspray, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Patti LuPone on Broadway), Tony, Grammy and Emmy-nominated and Academy Award-winning composer David Shire (Baby, Closer Than Ever, Big, Saturday Night Fever), Georgia Stitt (This Ordinary Thursday: The Songs Of Georgia Stitt with Sara Ramirez, Kelli O'Hara, Faith Prince, and many more), Ray Leslee (Avenue X, Educating Rita, Standup Shakespeare), Karl Mansfield (conductor and keyboardist for Broadway's Xanadu, La Boheme, 13, Dracula, Corum Boy, Sweet Charity, and Off-Broadway's Grey Gardens, Toxic Avenger, Shafrika the White Girl and Alter Boyz), and Wade McCollum (composer and lyricist for One, and award-winning performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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Julie Walters to play Mo Mowlam
4 June 2009 2:54 AM, PDT
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Julie Walters has signed up to play the late former Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam in a one-off Channel 4 drama, it has emerged. The Educating Rita actress will star alongside David Haig in the film, which will cover Mowlam's rise in the Labour party, her role in the Northern Ireland peace talks and her battle against brain cancer. Channel 4 head of drama Liza Marshall said: "Mo Mowlam is one of the (more)
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Mo Mowlam Drama Begins Ni Shoot
26 May 2009 7:29 AM, PDT
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Oscar nominated actress Julie Walters (Billy Elliot, Educating Rita) stars as former Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam in a new single drama 'Mo' for transmission on Channel 4 in 2010. Filming begins in Northern Ireland this month. The drama, written by Neil McKay (See No Evil: The Moors Murders, Innocents, Wall of Silence, Dunkirk), will be a compelling account of Mowlam's life depicting her rise to prominence in New Labour and her part in the extraordinary events that led to peace in Northern Ireland, as well as an intimate story of love and bravery. Mo Mowlam's family are in full support of the project. The all star cast also includes David Haig; Gary Lewis; Toby Jones; Adrian Dunbar; John Lynch; Eoin McCarthy and Steven Mackintosh.
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Caine Thrilled By Showest Honour
1 April 2009 6:35 PM, PDT
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Michael Caine is to be handed cinema industry festival ShoWest's most prestigious honour on Thursday - and he couldn't be more thrilled.
The Educating Rita star will collect the Lifetime Achievement Award at the movie distributors forum as part of a gala ceremony in Las Vegas.
He says, "It’s an extraordinary thing to get. They (cinema bosses) are tough. There is no sentiment there. I have never been to ShoWest before. They are not a namby-pamby crowd."
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