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What the Butler Saw
moviedearest.blogspot.com - 2/8/2008
What the Butler Saw
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Ralph Fiennes and Susan Sarandon are Bernard and Doris , a new HBO movie, directed by Bob Balaban, premiering tomorrow night. Doris is Doris Duke, the super rich super bitch tobacco billionaire/heiress, and Bernard is her ever-loyal, long-suffering alcoholic butler (who also just happens to be gay). Expect lots of witty repartee and snappy comebacks between the two in this fictionalized ...
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Doris Duke Played By Susan Sarandon — Right Celebrity
Meet Doris Duke , an heiress and philanthropist who died in 1993. See her biography and photos here. Doris Duke The film “Bernard and Doris” aired on HBO tonight, February 9, 2008. It stars Susan Sarandon as Doris Duke and tells the story of her Irish butler, Bernard Lafferty, who she left in charge of her entire fortune. Doris Duke Biography As a biography, ...
Bernard And Doris Premieres On HBO On Saturday Night — Cinema Blend Television
When tobacco fortune heiress Doris Duke died, she left her butler in charge of her huge charitable foundation. Just how the heiress and her butler went from an employee/employer relationship to something more is anyone's guess. This Saturday night, HBO will premiere Bernard and Doris , a fictional version of the story of the relationship of Duke and her butler Bernard as it might have happened.
Fishy finale no joke — PageSix.com
THEY never should have served salmon after last week's screening of HBO's "Bernard and Doris," the story of tobacco heiress Doris Duke and her gay, alcoholic, Irish butler, Bernard Lafferty. In one scene, Duke (played brilliantly by Susan Sarandon ) tells Lafferty ( Ralph Fiennes ) her banker is coming to dinner and to have the chef prepare salmon. "But ma'am, it's been in ...
SWEEPS DAY 10!! Capone Appraises HBO’s Ultrawealthy Lady/Homosexual Butler Movie BERNARD AND DORIS!!
 — Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
I am – Hercules!! I don’t believe I’ve ever encountered a project Ralph Fiennes couldn’t redeem. Don’t be fooled by the fact that a butler is a central character (or that big-band music is used in all the promos); the title characters met in 1987. “Bernard and Doris” (I keep wanting to call it “Bernard and Rose”!) is free if you get HBO. Here's "Capone": Through a weird series of events that ...
What’s on Tonight - Saturday - 2/9/08 — My TV Musings
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TV Daily — Salon
Friday/weekend: Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes star in HBO's riveting "Bernard and Doris." Plus: What did you think of "Lipstick Jungle" on Thursday?
Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes in Bernard and Doris — Allie Is Wired!
Amidst the Writers Strike and lack of television that doesn’t involve reality being tossed in as second string entertainment comes HBO to the rescue. “ Bernard and Doris ” stars Ms. Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes . We are all starving for something, anything really, that can bring us back to the couch. Temporarily anyway. HBO delivers a made for television movie that ...
Put up your Dukes! — Salon
Susan Sarandon dishes about playing feisty heiress Doris Duke on HBO, Ralph Fiennes' "matinee idol" looks and her old gay boyfriends.
I Like to Watch: From Bravo's "Millionaire Matchmaker" to HBO's "Bernard and Doris" to NBC's "Lipstick Jungle," boss ladies reign supreme! — Salon
Philosopher Immanuel Kant argued that free will formed the basis for morality. This was 200 years ago, back when human beings could be trusted to use their free will to enrich civilization. Sometimes they did this by exploiting or enslaving other human beings, but hey, at least they were industrious. These days human beings are oversized toddlers who need to be spanked and sent to their ...
Sarandon and Fiennes compelling as unlikely duo (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Television News
Reuters - In the case of Doris Duke and Bernard Lafferty, little is known but much is imagined. Thanks to the part that is imagined, HBO's "Bernard and Doris" emerges as a sensitive study of two forlorn souls with little in common but a growing ...
Bernard and Doris — Variety.com
TV Reviews: The story of Doris Duke comes outfitted with all the requisite bells and whistles: An obscenely rich tobacco heiress who mysteriously left control over a vast fortune to her meticulous Irish butler.
FISHY FINALE NO JOKE — NY Post: Page Six
THEY never should have served salmon after last week's screening of HBO's "Bernard and Doris," the story of tobacco heiress Doris Duke and her gay, alcoholic, Irish butler, Bernard Lafferty. In one scene, Duke (played brilliantly by Susan Sarandon)...
Balaban's 'Bernard and Doris' debuts — Variety.com
VPage: Susan Sarandon, Regis Philbin attend -- "Bernard and Doris" helmer Bob Balaban and star Susan Sarandon drew a slew of guests to the HBO film's preem at the Time Warner Screening Room on Jan. 30.