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In ‘Girlfriends,’ women get the pain, laughs, no Botox
By LYNN ELBER dad, he gets a chance to
shine in the role — literally,
AP Television Writer since his character, Tom,
sports a glossy fake tan to
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — make it appear he’s back
from an island vacation,
The women of “Girlfriends” not the slammer.
But center ring is
are having a very rough go owned by the three
respected actresses who
of it, and that’s just in the play longtime friends
reunited by their woes.
first episode. Richardson’s credits range
from “The Crying Game”
Miranda Richardson’s Sue to “Black Adder II” to the
“Harry Potter” role of Rita
is dumped by her lover and Skeeter. Logan played the
admirable housekeeper
the magazine she helped Mrs. Hughes in “Downton
Abbey” (yes, she’d love
him build. Phyllis Logan’s to see the talked-about
movie happen but has
Linda is abruptly widowed no update to offer).
Wanamaker appeared in
and may be broke. Zoe “Agatha Christie’s Poirot”
and “Mr. Selfridge.”
Wanamaker’s Gail is losing Another sign it’s a British
show: The women look
a husband to divorce and attractive and real.
“It would be ludicrous if
gaining her ex-con son. a woman meant to be
working class was looking
“It’s high farce what like she’d Botox-ed off
her face,” Logan said in
happens on one day to an interview, referring to
the injectable potion that
all these people, who are reduces facial movement
and thus lines. q
sort of thrown together
in the storm,” Richardson
said during a recent visit to
Southern California. This image released by Acorn TV shows Zoe Wanamaker, from left, Miranda Richardson and
Phyllis Logan in a scene from the series, “Girlfriends.”
But there’s pain to be had
Associated Press
in Acorn TV’s six-episode
“Girlfriends,” which “Girlfriends” to help fill characters, male and characters to serving
neatly combines drama, the void. The series, from female, in “Girlfriends,” as the mothers, wives or
humor and mystery and, prolific English writer- including Matthew Lewis secretaries of the men who
significantly, is delivered up director Kay Mellor, debuts (Neville Longbottom in carry the story.
by three veteran actresses. here this week courtesy of the “Harry Potter” movie “She said, ‘We wanted to
Netflix’s Jane Fonda-Lily the British-centric Acorn franchise) as Gail’s son. But make a show where, no,
Tomlin series “Grace and streaming service. The Lewis knows his character’s they were the focus and
Frankie” aside, there are show is something of an place in the scheme of it was the men that were
scant Hollywood TV or anomaly in its native land: things. supporting roles,’” Lewis
movie vehicles that give When its trio of stars aged He recalled series said during a recent Q&A
full voice to mature women 50-plus was announced, it mastermind Mellor with TV critics.
and their experiences. made the evening news. discussing TV’s habit As a well-meaning if
So it’s up to the U.K.’s There are younger of relegating female wayward son and single
Mario and Minions? Illumination
to co-produce Nintendo film
By YURI KAGEYAMA global distribution through to nearly 483 billion yen,
AP Business Writer up from 174 billion yen
TOKYO (AP) — Mario is get- Universal, which co-owns the previous year, on the
ting together with the Min- success of its Switch, a hy-
ions. Illumination, according to brid game machine that
Japanese video-game can be played both as a
company Nintendo Co. the Kyoto-based maker of home console as well as a
says a movie starring the handheld. Nintendo now
plumber in the Super Ma- Pokemon games and the expects to sell 15 million
rio franchise is in the works, Switch consoles in this fiscal
co-produced with Chris popular Switch machine. year, which ends in March.
Meledandri, the chief ex- That's up from its initial pro-
ecutive of Illumination They did not give other de- jection to sell 10 million
Entertainment, the U.S. Switch machines, which
animation studio behind tails, including the release was raised last year to 14
the popular "Despicable million. Nintendo brought
Me" series. Nintendo's star date. Miyamoto said some the world the FamiCom
game designer Shigeru game machine in the 1980s
Miyamoto told reporters people mistakenly think and has had its up and
Thursday the script is most- downs as people's enter-
ly finished. He's promising that making games is simi- tainment tastes changed. Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co. President Tatsumi
a "fun" movie, since Me- In recent years, Nintendo Kimishima speaks during a news conference during in Tokyo
ledandri shares his thinking lar to making movies. did an about-face to its Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. Japanese video-game company Nin-
on creative projects. past policy of shunning tendo Co.
The movie, two years in "Creating in an interactive smartphone games, and
the making after a meet- has scored success in Associated Press
ing between Meledandri medium is totally different that sector as well. It has
and Miyamoto, is set for brought back a revamped
from doing that in a passive
medium," he said, saying
he'd wanted to make such version of the FamiCom, set to go on sale April 20,
which proved so popular it is based on the idea that
a film for years. Meledandri will go on sale again later the Switch, which is a con-
this year. Nintendo execu- troller packed with sensors,
and he hit it right off: "We tives also expressed hopes can be used with differ-
for its upcoming Nintendo ent attachments for many
want to make something Labo , whose trailer shows kinds of play. Executives
the Switch being played joked that they initially
great," he said. with cardboard concoc- thought cardboard would
tions, resembling a piano, be cheap but it turned out
Nintendo reported fishing rod, robot and oth- to be more expensive than
er items. Nintendo Labo, they thought.q
Wednesday an October-
December profit of 83.66
billion yen ($768 million), up
29 percent from the previ-
ous fiscal third quarter.
Quarterly sales ballooned
