Entire teams of people working in legal and clearance departments exist to prevent just the sort of stuff that happened to Emma Thompson's film Effie Gray. Based on a true story, Thompson scripted and co-starred in the film, only to see it bogged down in two separate accusations of plagiarism by two different playwrights. Judges…
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During her life, Elizabeth Taylor was known as much for her offscreen exploits as she was for her onscreen work, and public interest in her personal life hasn't waned now that she's passed. Last year, Lifetime brought us the tawdry, Lindsay Lohan-starring version of the Taylor story: Liz & Dick. This year, the BBC is…
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Almost three years back, Emma Thompson and her husband Greg Wise starting to drop info about a script they'd written called Effie, which would follow Victorian art critic, social thinker and poet John Ruskin, who had a strange and ultimately disastrous marriage to a woman named Euphemia 'Effie' Gray. Ruskin couldn't consummate the marriage, and…
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