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Article: Nothing Like the Dame.(actress Dame Judi Dench)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
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- April 26, 1999
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Still glowing from Oscar night, great Brit Judi Dench sweeps into a flush of spring roles
In her dressing room in Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater, Dame Judi Dench senses the presence of former occupants like Marlon Brando and Karl Malden, who made history in the 1947 premiere of "A Streetcar Named Desire." "I detect their spirits," says Dench. "I think Marlon peed in the basin. Karl behaved properly, he went to the loo." Such salty realism is part of the persona that has made Dame Judi another in the long line of British claimants to the unofficial title of Greatest Living Actress. Americans are finally aware of Dench, through her 1998 Oscar nomination for her ...