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Helen McCrory, who has died of cancer aged 52, was already established among the leading stage actors of her generation when she became known as Cherie Blair in Stephen Frears’s movie The Queen (2006), starring Helen Mirren, and with Michael Sheen as Tony; and as the witch Narcissa Malfoy, mother of Draco, in the last three Harry Potter films.
Her brisk and slinky Cherie Blair was one in a line of suited authority figures and lawyers played by McCrory, culminating in an acidulous, brutally frank but deluded Tory prime minister in David Hare’s television drama Roadkill (2020), refusing to give a “big job” to Hugh Laurie’s shameless MP. In comparison, Narcissa was a “turn,” a Gothic hoot, for all her verve and suffocating evil.
The week in photos: March 8–14, 2021
MSU Baker Dawn Ralston creates confections behind the scenes at MSU Bakers. The bakery is a nut-conscious facility that supplies baked goods to campus and offers pick-up and delivery to the local community. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.
We asked what you wanted to see in the photo gallery. Reader Robert McCarthy wondered what the section of campus that he remembers as the tundra looks like now. He recalled cold walks in the 1970s from his residence hall to class at Wells Hall. This photo, taken last week from an upper floor of Holden, shows the current tennis courts, Spartan Stadium, the football practice field, the new STEM building being constructed at the site of the old power plant and Wells Hall in the distance. We hope this brings back warm memories. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.