Thatcher vs. The Miners, the company’s first feature documentary.
The film plans to use new evidence, including the miners’ own footage, along with first-person testimony, archive footage and journalism to explore the conflict between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government and the National Union of Mineworkers, that occurred nearly 40 years ago.
Cabinet papers obtained for the documentary reveal the enormity of the conflict between Thatcher and union leader Arthur Scargill. The film also features interviews with miners’ leaders and union officials from the time, striking and working miners, and three members of Thatcher’s staff: Lord Robin Butler, Lord Andrew Turnbull and Lord Stephen Sherborne.
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I’ve been staring at the tacos on this animated illustration for a good 30 minutes, absolutely hypnotized, which makes me think that, unlike my colleague Jenn Harris, I wouldn’t be able to make it out of the Caesars Palace Bacchanal Buffet within the newly imposed 90-minute time limit, probably because I’d be spending half the time wondering who had been handling the tongs at the food stations. Maybe it’s too soon to hit the buffet.
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“What do you think people would be most surprised to find out about you?”
Gillian Anderson used to get asked this cliched question all the time and she would offer the same response: That I am a
complete goofball. Nobody believed her. It was as if she was trying to hurl this kooky energy out into the universe but all anyone could see was the woman who played the rational Agent Dana Scully over the course of 218 episodes on “The X-Files,” the skeptic who never wavered from the view that extraordinary things could always be explained in the most mundane fashion. Forget your flights of fancy. It’s all nonsense.