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Her Majesty, Dame Helen Mirren was named Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 79th Annual Academy Awards. I have loved Helen Mirren sine I first saw her strut her stuff as DI Jane Tennyson in the first installment of the Prime Suspect mini-series.

Of course, I had seen her before in ‘The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,’ but it was the chain-smoking intensity of the brittle but dogged Tennyson that made me love her.

So here’s to the Queen, Dame Helen Mirren.

I love the Oscars, but they do go on. Last night it was a two hour show stretched over four hours. And no matter how good Ellen Degeneres was, no-one can lift the excruciatinglyllong and tedious moments.