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Streep takes on 'The Iron Lady'

In the opening scenes of "The Iron Lady" the young Margaret Thatcher, played by Alexandra Roach, is a guest at a dinner. Right out of the box she begins to annoy the men with her pushy young-fem insistence on being taken seriously. The women simply touch their lips and wonder how she got to the table. When dinner is over, she is directed to retire with the ladies to the drawing room, while the men smoke cigars and discuss the issues of the day.

Young Margaret, the feisty daughter of a grocer, somehow can't believe she has to leave. I was reminded of the scene in "Giant," when Liz Taylor tried to muscle in on her husband's cigar hoe down with his cattle buddies. She was quickly told to go to bed.

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