Go Glenda!

[gillo]

Not many MPs have a pair of Oscars, but Glenda Jackson does, and shows all her theatrical expertise in her speech to Parliament today. They were summoned for a day of tribute to Thatcher - most of her real opponents stayed away or tempered their language in respect for the death. She said it how it was. And use the word "heinous" twice.

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[deborahw37]

I'm fangirling her so hard right now!

[gillo]

Yup. She deserves it.

[trepkos]

I think I'm in love with John Bercow.

[lokifan]

Same.

[gillo]

He was good, wasn't he?

[gillo]

He was awesome - even though he's a Tory, he did the right thing.

[curiouswombat]

Now there is a woman who should have been prime-minister. Or at least given a lot more power than Blair ever did give her.

[gillo]

Exactly - transport minister was never enough. She should have had arts and culture - imagine, a minister who actually knew something about her job.

[wheatear]

Hear hear.

[gillo]

I thought you'd approve.

[tx_cronopio]

Julio Cortazar said it best...

Queremos tanto a Glenda!

(We love Glenda so much! There's a whole story behind that title if you want to hear it.)

[gillo]

Do tell. Our Glenda is magnificent.

[tx_cronopio]

Okay -- this is from memory, but basically accurate.

Cortazar is a famous Argentine novelist. His master work, published in 1963, is called Hopscotch (Rayuela in Spanish, but same thing.)

In 1980, Glenda Jackson and Walter Matthau did a movie called Hopscotch -- fun, but a basic spy thriller. Nothing to do with his novel, and really nothing to do with hopscotch.

Hmmm, sez Cortazar, ain't that odd? I wonder what eerie connection there is between me and Glenda Jackson?

So he wrote a story called Queremos Tanto a Glenda, about a major movie star whose fans love her so much that they decide to kill her. So she'll never age, or make a bad movie, or anything.

I think there were a few more back and forths that I don't remember, but it always makes me laugh.

glenda ROCKS.

[gillo]

Gracias por eso.

Glenda most definitely rocks. And Bercow did an impressive put-down of the pompous MP (of Bercow's own party - how about that for impartiality?)