Helen Mirren: A Smart Sensuality, Sweet Talkin' Dame(s)

Helen Mirren is a double dame. Forget the old and fussy definition of a dame, as an older woman running a household.

I’m speaking of the Urban Dictionary definition of ‘dame’, the hip guy’s definition:

1) A class, beautiful one. The type one can only dream of going out with. Ex: Halle Berry’s a dame.

2) An attractive woman who a guy wants to get to know. Often considered offensive by the females, unless you’re from another century. Ex: Holy mother of Pearl, look at that fine dame over there …

Trust me, Helen Mirren relishes being a dame. And now she has another new title: Dame Comander of the British Empire. Ooh lala!

I had the pleasure of attending this Times Talks with Helen Mirren being interviewed by Lynn Hirschberger. She was simply fantabulous!

Mirren’s a seductive, articulate, accomplished, self-realized, Smart Sensuality woman priming us for the next big breakthrough: sexy at sixty.

Trust me. Between Helen Mirren and Jessica Lange, who I also saw at Times Talks, aging doesn’t have to be so scarry.

Helen Mirren is an activist in politics. Like any respecting Smart Sensuality woman, she walks her talk on global issues. Mirren’s role in “The Queen” prepared us for Queen Elizabeth II’s embrace of Michelle Obama this week.

I actually did always like Queen Elizabeth II, even if she didn’t hug Charles growing up.

Her willingness to respond and reconsider her actions and values — albeit it under pressure — when Princess Diana dies,  gave us entirely new insights into the British monarch. And the movie did such a fine, honorable portrayal of the Queen’s stiff upper lip royal demeanor. She’s not all bad in today’s tell-all, poor-me world, where duty actually is not a dirty word, as often as we forget that fact.

As a woman and in her acting roles, Helen Mirren spans the range of a Smart Sensuality women.

Take a look at us, in all our glory, in this wonderful fan video of Helen in her many movie selves.

Helen Mirren the Great

Ah, one more more comment. On the subject of her glorious bosom, Mirren shares her delight over becoming British Empire Dame Numer 2 about six years ago, except for the fact that Prince Charles screwed up her ceremony. She tells the Daily Mail:

Prince Charles was very graceful, although I think he was a bit distracted by my low-cut top. Every person who is invested receives an insignia of their award – a badge and a star. The Prince forgot to give me half of mine and one of his people said, ‘Excuse me, sir. You have forgotten to give her the star.’

Ah men, they are so easily distracted from the important matters of state. Anne