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Momma Mia!, round 1.
Published 7/1/2008 at GreenCine Daily
For the Guardian, Gwladys Fouché reports on last night's premiere of Momma Mia! in London: "Hundreds of fans laid all their love on the movie's stars - including Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgård - as they walked the azur blue carpet, a reference to the movie's mediterranean setting. Leicester Square was further adorned with lemon trees, boungainvillea climbing over trellis arches and an orthodox-style church to recall Mamma Mia!'s Greek island ...

Biographical dictionary of film: Meryl Streep
Published 7/1/2008 by David Thomson at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
... you see every trick and decision?" This doesn't mean that Meryl Streep is gifted with the ability or the wish to avoid some bad films, or even films in which she doesn't do too well. Over the years, you may recall The She-Devil, Death Becomes Her and The House of the Spirits (a daft version of Isabel Allende), and just lately the dogs that track her waiting to sniff blood can point to Rendition and Lions for Lambs (films that didn't deserve her name) and perhaps even her latest, Mamma Mia! , which sounds like an awfully jolly, vulgar romp for Ms Streep to be wasting her time ...