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Post by maggie on Jul 8, 2011 15:53:13 GMT -5
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Post by trubble on Jul 9, 2011 15:54:10 GMT -5
This is all a bit Joanna Lumley, isn't it? Hugh Grant, in his time, has played many parts. He has been the diffident, floppy-haired charmer in Four Weddings And A Funeral; he's been the caddish lothario in the Bridget Jones movies and the troubled quasi-dad in Nick Hornby's About A Boy. Off-screen, he's been the sheepish bad boy caught in flagrante by the roadside in LA, but also the brilliant investor in property and contemporary art.
But now he's found what could be his greatest role. On BBC TV's Question Time, he was the campaigner for decent values and fearless scourge of the slimy News Corporation which hacked into people's phones and sacrificed 200 jobs to protect Rebekah Brooks. It was a magnificent performance – and TV watchers all over the country remembered why they loved Hugh Grant.
With elegance, with insouciance, Grant dismissed the whingey complaints from fellow panellist, Sun columnist Jon Gaunt. He suavely batted away jibes about blow jobs. He called Rupert Murdoch's act of corporate self-mutilation "cynical" and the studio audience applauded.
The Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir has jeered at "St Hugh of Grant", and Piers Morgan – a man whose moral compass directs him unerringly to that side of the bread where the butter is to be found – tweeted that Grant was "a screechy, sanctimonious little prick". He found himself un-followed in droves. Morgan discovered that people supported Grant. And they wondered if being screechy and sanctimonious was a wise subject for Morgan to be talking about.
..full article... If you were to have a presidential election tomorrow (having overthrown the monarchy first obv) I'd be worried that the candidates would be Hugh, Joanna and Helen Mirren.
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