August 21st, 2007
The News of the World reports that Joan Collins will play a Doctor Who villain in the upcoming series of the hit sci-fi show.
The 74-year-old Dynasty star is reported to play The Doctor’s arch-nemesis ‘The Rani’.
The character first appeared in the show back in 1985 and was played by Kate O’Mara. The Rani is a renegade Time Lady, an evil scientific genius from Gallifrey who has been known to enslave entire planets. Like the Doctor, the Rani has a fully functional TARDIS with the addition of a working chameleon circuit, which enables it to disguise its appearance wherever it lands. In the classic series, a relationship is hinted at between the Doctor and the Rani but not elaborated upon, although it is established that they are the same age.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.