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Maggie Smith to leave ‘Downton Abbey’ after Season 6
New York Daily News ^ | 3-2-15 | David Hinckley

Posted on 03/02/2015 3:48:25 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic

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Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess Violet

1 posted on 03/02/2015 3:48:26 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

My entire family enjoy the show, but season 5 has been a drag. Maybe 6 seasons is enough.


2 posted on 03/02/2015 3:52:50 PM PST by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Maggie — please stay!


3 posted on 03/02/2015 3:53:54 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Why would you want to "fundamentally change" a country you love?)
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She does have all the best lines.


4 posted on 03/02/2015 3:54:57 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Love her performance. Missed her movies over the years. Now hoping to catch up.


5 posted on 03/02/2015 3:56:59 PM PST by nfldgirl
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The show is over as far as I’m concerned.

Finis.

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6 posted on 03/02/2015 3:58:42 PM PST by Mears (To learn, who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."~~Voltaire))
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“I mean, I certainly can’t keep going ... To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We’re into the late 1920s.”

Haha....I love Maggie Smith.


7 posted on 03/02/2015 3:59:03 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("He repays everyone for what they have done; He brings on them what their conduct deserves.")
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To: napscoordinator
Agree that it's fraying at the edges-- even the writing has slipped a bit-- but I still find it the best thing on TV. I've watched most episodes at least twice and still find little details of dialogue or action I missed the first or second time.

Somewhere in an earlier season Violet mention her debut sometime around 1865. So I believe her character's age would be around 80 - 85 in 1924.

8 posted on 03/02/2015 3:59:26 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: afraidfortherepublic
To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We're into the late 1920s

Ok, so last night's ep was Xmas 1924. The show started with the sinking of the Titanic, in 1912. So only 12 years have passed over the course of five seasons.

If Smith is saying that they're up to the "late 1920's" she might be referring to where Season 6 will start. So I suspect that going from Season 5 to Season 6 will involve a major skip-ahead on the magnitude of several years.
9 posted on 03/02/2015 4:00:13 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: afraidfortherepublic
She was quite the cutie...


10 posted on 03/02/2015 4:00:34 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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At this point I watch only for the zingers between Violet and Isobel! Well that and the cars, dresses, and table settings.


11 posted on 03/02/2015 4:02:20 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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Saw her as Lady Macbeth in Stratford-on-Avon (Ontario) in 1977.

She's complaining that now after Downton Abbey she can't go anywhere without being recognized, despite a lifetime on the stage and screen beforehand.

12 posted on 03/02/2015 4:03:44 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: nfldgirl

She has a new movie coming out in the next couple of weeks — The 2nd Grand Marigold Hotel.


13 posted on 03/02/2015 4:05:00 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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I am pretty sure the writers are going to off the Earl of Grantham with a heart attack.


14 posted on 03/02/2015 4:05:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Looking good and kicking butt at 80!


15 posted on 03/02/2015 4:06:55 PM PST by Ken H (DILLIGAF)
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To: nfldgirl

Start off with ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’. She’s amazing.


16 posted on 03/02/2015 4:11:15 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: pierrem15
Saw her as Lady Macbeth in Stratford-on-Avon (Ontario) in 1977. She's complaining that now after Downton Abbey she can't go anywhere without being recognized, despite a lifetime on the stage and screen beforehand.

Didn't she win the best actress Oscar for Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in '69 or so?

17 posted on 03/02/2015 4:12:11 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I thought so too. My husband said that they diagnosed it as ulcers (I must have closed my eyes for a moment), but I thought he’d be gone by Christmas.


18 posted on 03/02/2015 4:13:22 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: tanknetter

Her character makes lots of “personal” references to the 1800s. Don’t recall how early, though.


19 posted on 03/02/2015 4:14:18 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("He repays everyone for what they have done; He brings on them what their conduct deserves.")
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To: Mears

I was over it a long time ago. It was basically the same drama over and over.


20 posted on 03/02/2015 4:14:59 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("He repays everyone for what they have done; He brings on them what their conduct deserves.")
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