More stories by Nigel M. Newcomer Alexandra Roach had big shoes to fill for her feature film debut. In “The Iron Lady,” the Welsh actress portrays Margaret Thatcher in her younger years, before the ...

Meryl Streep ran into difficulty while unveiling a new poster for The Iron Lady in London this morning. When the curtain cord failed, Streep and director Phyllida Lloyd resorted to pulling down the ...

The spirit of Thatcherism is alive and well in America’s reenergized conservative movement. In Washington last month, former South Carolina Gov. and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Making a film about an iconic politician like Britain's Margaret Thatcher is akin to walking into a movie minefield, and casting an American -- even one as revered as Meryl ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - It was largely for lack of any other news that I launched Margaret Thatcher's favourite soubriquet "The Iron Lady" on the world one quiet but miserably slushy Moscow winter Saturday ...

Recently, a co-worker expressed a mixture of anticipation and caution with regards to The Iron Lady, the Meryl Streep-headlining biopic of the controversial former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

There is no question that Meryl Streep is brilliant as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Her Oscar win as best actress was well-deserved. An ideological hero of the ...

That might work if the film had focused on the relationship between the former prime minister of Great Britain and her husband of over half a century. But there’s no emotional buildup, and so no ...