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 Message 296,631 of 297,380 
 LionelEdwards to HenHanna 
 Re: Maggie Smith -- The Prime of Miss Je 
 27 Sep 24 22:38:29 
 
XPost: alt.usage.english, soc.culture.british
From: dougstaples@gmx.com

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:41:53 +0000, HenHanna wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:15:38 +0000, LionelEdwards wrote:
>
>> They don't make films like this any more. Miss Jean
>> Brodie before she went beyond her prime:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crJnW0UU2Ak
>
>
>     Does the movie title mean...
>              when she was at her most-Confident, Ablest, ...?

Yes and quoting Keats at the end. A golden age of high-brow
film-making seems to be dying with that generation. "A Room
with a View" from 1985:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzLsrAx0n4k

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