Together Again ...

[Carol]

Cat: 
> > Dame Maggie Smith (Minerva McGonnagal), Zoe Wannamaker (Madam
Hooch and Dan Radcliffe (HP) in "David Copperfield".
> 
> Geoff:
> I remember that, back in 1999. Made for BBC TV, it was one of the 
best David Copperfields I have seen and I recall being impressed with
a very youthful Dan Radcliffe.  
> 
> Maggie Smith played an eccentric but formidable Betsy Trotwood, 
protecting David and Zöe Wanamaker was a nasty MIss Murdstone, one of
those characters you would like to smack - very different to Madam Hooch.
>
Carol responds:

I havent seen it, but it looks like a good production and Maggie Smith
seems perfect for Aunt Betsey ("eccentric but formidable"
characterizes Book!Betsey perfectly). Maybe I can rent it from
Blockbuster some time. I was surprised to see Imelda Staunton
(Umbridge) as Mrs. Micawber (never seen in the book without an infant
twin attached to her bosom). I imagine that the producers left out
that little detail.

Carol, who needs to remember that "Sense and Sensibility" is on
'Masterpiece Theater" tonight (not the version with HP actors, though)