DELIGHTED DAME
HATS OFF TO Helen Mirren for publicly clarifying how “really glad” she is to be dragged into the row — or “fascinating discussion” as she admirably puts it — surrounding her non-Jewish self being cast as late Israeli PM Golda Meir.
Normally used to having to deal with endlessly challenging press inquiries about being a national treasure/mature sex symbol, or coping with pervy Parky in the 1970s, one again cannot emphasise just how truly thrilled Helen is to find herself faced with this professional hornets’ nest.
★NATIONAL THEATRE BOSS Rufus Norris predictably groans about “levelling up” diverting artistic resources away from the capital to the provinces, insisting we risk “robbing
