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Article: When Judi Dench is around, we are amused.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2004
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Byline: Michael Kilian
WASHINGTON _ There is nothing like a dame.
Especially when her name is Judi Dench.
Dame Judi (she was accorded an Order of the British Empire in 1970 and made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1988) swept into the U.S. capital the other night with all the grace, aplomb and presence of a royal yacht _ and ribald wit enough to fill a dozen Shakespeare comedies.
Some of what she shared with us was so ribald I daren't reprint it in a square and stodgy family newspaper.
"I thought I'd tell some badly behaved stories," she said.
She was actually referring to a television program she did in ...