Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Dench trades royalty for `Bombshells'

LONDON Judi Dench is hardly one to blow her own horn, but that'sexactly what she does-the tenor sax, to be precise-in the new TVmovie "The Last of the Blonde Bombshells."

"A lot of people gave me a funny look," says the legendary Britishactress, whose illustrious career has never before required such anassignment.

Dench has spent more time of late playing big-screen queens-Victoria in "Mrs. Brown" and Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love."But "Blonde Bombshells" allowed her to forsake royalty to workalongside a friend and colleague, Ian Holm, whom Dench, now 65, hasknown for nearly 40 years.

"What attracts me is that a script should be totally different, soyou …

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