At the Show

We finally got out of our Netflix cocoon this weekend and saw my boyfriend's pick "The Queen" (my pick was actually "Flags of Our Fathers" which was already gone-how's that for role reversal?) . It was great. I was interested, of course, because when has Helen Mirren ever been bad? I mean the woman was in both "O Lucky Man" and "Caligula"-she ought to get an award for that alone! She plays a wonderful Elizabeth-commanding, funny and very human-if she's not a frontrunner for an Oscar I don't know who is. And if you think I'm not much of a royal watcher relax, it's a family story about the way people work. Check it out.