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LONDON - Veteran actress Helen Mirren is to be conferred with a lifetime achievement award for her contribution to cinema. 
The Oscar-winner will be presented with the trophy at the 19th
annual Women in Film and Television Awards here next month, reports
imdb.com.
Event organisers say Mirren will receive the honour for her “outstanding and lasting contribution to film and television”.
Previous winners of the award include former Bond girl Dame Diana
Rigg, multi Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn, and “Educating Rita” star
Julie Walters. 
The Passion of Ayn Rand:
Mirren and Stolz made her story superb, the filmmakers chose to make the film about the objective love relationships in the philosopher author's life. i NEVER saw anything like it before that... Mirren and Stolz getting it on on hardwood floors, elaborate lighting as the sun went down and venetian blinds created a lovely scene...
 i actually forgot that the emeritus actor Peter Fonda was IN the movie! but i remember his performance, it was terse and commanding. They made what could have been a long drag-on of a tale about a writer compelling...
director Becker says it as well as i could from the soapbox of experience.... http://www.beckerfilms.com/index.html
“The Passion
of Ayn Rand” is a made-for-Showtime cable movie, which
I used to not take seriously and not even put on the master list of
films I’ve seen. However, I now consider them as real as
any other movies, since the best films I’ve seen in the past couple
of years have been either made-for-Showtime or HBO, specifically: “Elvis
Meets Nixon” and “Don King: Only in America”. “Ayn
Rand” isn’t nearly as good as these other two, but there’s
a heck of a lot more to think about here than any recent theatrical
films. Anyway, if in “The Patriot,” patriotism is confused
with revenge; in “The Passion of Ayn Rand,” passion is confused
with humping. Helen Mirren, who plays Ayn Rand, used to be known
for her nude scenes and sex scenes, having begun her career in Michael
Powell’s “Age of Consent,” an early, adult nudie picture,
and went on to do “Caligula,” which was supposed to be the
first legitimate porno film. Ms. Mirren gives a world-weary performance
with a Boris & Natasha Russian accent as she and Eric Stoltz, playing
Nathaniel Brandon, her number one fan, hump on every flat surface available
in the 1940s and 50s as their respective spouses, Peter Fonda and Julie
Delpy, look on and painfully tolerate it so that they too can be considered
modern and open-minded. What we are led to believe is that Ayn
Rand needed a good hard daily fucking to get “Atlas Shrugged”
out of her and since her husband Peter Fonda wasn’t up to it, she
used Nathaniel Brandon for her purpose, as he used her to his purpose.
It all makes sense, but sadly there isn’t much passion on display,
and montages of humping just don’t cut it for me.
http://www.beckerfilms.com/index.html
i tend to agree with most of what becker says. but, i bet montages of humping actually DO "do it for him" although it might be professionally deft for him to state otherwise online...hee hee. 
But also...there is this term floating around which i mellow with..."Neo-Objectivist..." i saw the illogic in Rand's statements when I was a senior in High School. OF COURSE contradictions exist. "No, they don't." YES THEY DO and there's one now...ugh... proving the negative?
It was her sheer fierceness -- and the fact that she was a Jew on the down in a nation known for equal racist brutality as Stalin's hated fascist Communism -- that, perhaps, gave her the courage, the sheer will to state opinions on such a prolific level.
Escaping Stalin's hate of Jews, she left utterly impoverished Soviet Russia and came to the United States -- where she got suckered by the same constitutional republic that almost all of us are hypnotized by by the age of six. She'd never seen opulence and riches like New York before, no doubt...and became enamored of capitalism. Which was arguably her savior.
The flaws in her philosophy come from denial's logical terminus. People who assume things that they personally have not experienced are not real are just too short sighted. I have never seen the planet Jupiter, or mainland China, with my own eyes. I would be as much of a fool as Rand if i therefore assumed that they were not real, because I could not see them. "There IS no such place as China! there's no Jupiter, either...if I haven't seen them THEY AREN'T FUCKING REAL!!"
Such arrogance goes along with Ayn Rand. Now internationally, governments and their economies are collapsing -- because she influenced SO MANY CAPITALISTS.
"Good." ---------------- something weird as my train of thought derailed: http://www.popstar.com/Helen_Mirren/
WHO DID THAT? maybe Rach did it herself.
"3-way..."
I'll definitely remember that number. -- REPUBLICANS LIE COMPULSIVELY. yeah, Hitler was mentally ill.
i find it sorta hard to feel sorry for him though... Jung and Freud and the cola wars of psychoanalysis. If Jung had won and Freud had been shoved into the world of the fringey and speculative instead of vice versa, we'd live in a much saner world, and George W. Bush might never have been president. Or -- he might not have been so diabolically and obviously insane.
And up to now...
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