Send to KindleBy Abbie Bernstein
Based on Philippa Gregory’s three historical novels THE WHITE QUEEN, THE RED QUEEN and THE KINGMAKER’S DAUGHTER, the BBC/Starz ten-part series chronicles a goodly portion of the War of the Roses, also known as the Cousins’ War. The Plantagenet family ruled England for centuries, but there was a good deal of bloody dispute over whom God had anointed to sit on the English throne.
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Send to KindleJames Frain Interview
by Abbie Bernstein
Yorkshire-born James Frain has been having a very good run playing very bad people of late. True, he’s had some time off for good behavior, but he’s largely been delightfully dark as Audrey Raines husband in 24, a hostile extraterrestrial in INVASION, the ambitious Thomas Cromwell in THE TUDORS and as a menacing computer program in TRON: LEGACY. Last year, he stole scenes on TRUE BLOOD as love-crazed - and just plain crazy - vampire Franklin Mott. Now Frain is a regular on NBC’s new superhero series THE CAPE, which airs Mondays at 9 PM. The title character, aka Vince Faraday, played by David Lyons, is a cop who is framed for murder by Frain’s immensely powerful and corrupt industrialist Peter Fleming, who has his own secret identity as criminal mastermind Chess.
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