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Margaret Thatcher's influence endured long after her premiership ended. Read Amanda Foreman on her legacy and her film immortalization by Meryl Streep.
Margaret Thatcher film biopic The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep, is streaming for free but for a limited time only.
Americans may be most familiar with Margaret Thatcher through her friendship with Ronald Reagan and the more recent Oscar-winning portrait of her by Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady,” but the ...
Meryl Streep: 'Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer'One of the tricky bargains that actors have to make when they choose to play a living person in a film, is that they’ll be forever inextricably ...
For a thorough look at the life of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, head to the library and check out a thick biography. Meryl Streep's new Thatcher film "The Iron Lady" is not ...
The reaction to the film "The Iron Lady" has illuminated just how polarizing "Mrs. T." (or "TBW" — "that bloody woman") remains a generation after her ouster from 10 Downing St.
In the first scene of The Iron Lady, 80-something Margaret Thatcher is presented as a little old lady unfit for the fast-moving world outside her hermetic London townhouse. The bulk of the movie takes ...
Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday of a stroke, age 87, was one of the U.K.’s most politically divisive figures in recent history — and, as a result, was a media favorite. She became a pop ...
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday criticized the making of a film showing his predecessor Margaret Thatcher as a vulnerable elderly woman.
Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday criticised the making of a film showing his predecessor Margaret Thatcher as a vulnerable elderly woman.
Margaret Thatcher’s reign as the United Kingdom’s prime minister in the ‘80s remains incredibly controversial, with her being one of Britain’s most hated political figures. Against the ...