Who is Lucy "coHu" and why is an artist/actor more brilliant and memorable than the real person?!1

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Movie on IFC, "The Queen's Sister". I'm a "democratic" person NOT a ROYALIST, yet I want to view depictions of their downfalls.


So this Princess Margaret was (the first) "people's princess," then was unveiled as the parasite on the public trough that they all are.

Anyway, this movie on IFC, "The Queen's Sister," was mildly engrossing, but ALL engrossing because of this actor Lucy COFU COHU person.

She's better than NO Streep and NO Katherine HEPperson. And, apparently, Wiki relegates her to minor/t.v. status. Fine.

So, I don't do movies much but when I do it's a reason (Lucy COFU) whoever she is.

Her subject was despicable and stupid, but then so is her damned sister the "queen."


Funny how after my lifetime of despising royalty and Mr "prince" Phillip," he was portrayed here as the sympathetic fixer. Awww, poor Royals with all they have to deal with, the fishbowl and stuff, poor babies.



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(Wiki. Look it up.)
The show aired on BBC America on March 5, 2006. In his review in Variety, Brian Lowry called the film "engaging if somewhat tawdry" and "occasional fun" and added, "Lucy Cohu does deliver a regal, rollicking performance in the title role ... [She] makes it all worth watching, conveying the contradictions - she can be down to earth and snotty all at once - that surely helped render Margaret an object of fascination in her time. Yet even with its sumptuous production values as Margaret jet-sets her way across the globe, it's a lightweight confection, especially when held up against the BBC's tony track record with historical fare. In other words, some BBC America productions are really outstanding, and some of them aren't." [1]

On the website DVD Talk, Paul Mavis observed, "At times funny and satirical, at other times raunchy and low down, The Queen's Sister is always fast-moving and involving ... Propelling [it] along at breakneck speed is the lusty, vibrant performance by Lucy Cohu ... [who] is really quite affecting." [2]

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. I remember that flick

Odd, that I am not a "fan" of royalty and yet I am fascinated with court intrigue and the family dynamics and how history was formed with all this sordid alliances and how twisted it all is

Lucy Cofu
Born in 1970

Trivia:
Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Son, Alexander (born 2000), and daughter, Lila (born 2002).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169982/

[UTUSN]

2. Haha! I got you to adopt MY mistaken spelling of her surname!1

Thanks for the resource for more info on her.


c o H u, not: COFU!1

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. yw.