RIP Dame Maggie Smith

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RIP Dame Maggie Smith, 89 years young, one of the greatest of all time!  She's been in so many iconic roles i'm going to defer to wiki, sigh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Smith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Maggie_Smith_performances

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RIP Maggie Smith. She was such a great part of the Harry Potter films.

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Clash of the Titans and Evil under the Sun for me

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Michael Palin and Maggie Smith in A Private Function (1984)   Michael Palin and Maggie Smith in A Private Function (1984)

Classic Black Comedy......

In a small town in Northern England in 1947, the citizens endure continuing food rationing. Some local businessmen want to hold a party to celebrate the royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip and illegally decide to raise a pig for that occasion. However, the pig is stolen by Gilbert Chilvers, who was encouraged to do so by his wife Joyce. Meanwhile, the local food inspector is determined to stop activities circumventing the food rationing.  Three pigs were used in the filming of A Private Function which were all named Betty. Producer Mark Shivas was advised by Intellectual Animals UK that the pigs used should be female and six months old so as to not be too large or aggressive. However, the pigs were “unpredictable and often quite dangerous"

On Sneak Previews in 1985, both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert gave the movie two thumbs up. They called it one “really funny movie” and one “flat out winner.” Siskel said it “had perfectly believable characters” and Ebert said “just beneath this veneer of respectability is utter madness.