In almost any other year, Glenn Close would easily walk off with the Best Actress Oscar for her brilliant, fragile performance in the heartbreakingly beautiful “Albert Nobbs.” But with Meryl Streep and Viola Davis in the high profile mix, it’s doubtful Close’s sixth nomination will finally garner her the well-deserved statuette. Let’s hope the nomination [...]
Nature and nurture dance a full-tilt rock ‘n’ roll tango in Deborah Jiang Stein’s adrenaline pumping memoir,”Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus.” As a multi-racial child, adopted by Jewish academics in the early ’60′s, Deborah’s feelings of isolated “otherness” are ratcheted up to mythic proportions when at the tender and tumultuous age of 12 she discovers [...]
It’s been thirty years, but Meryl Streep may have to make room for that elusive third Oscar. With Tuesday’s announcement of the Academy Award nominations, the heralded actress’ brilliant portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” (already a Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice winner) is the front runner for the [...]
Sunday’s Golden Globe hat trick should send more folks to see “The Artist.” It’s not just the accolades–for Best Picture, Actor and score– but the exuberance the winners exuded. That very quality is at the heart of this unlikely commercial success. Okay, it is mostly silent, in black and white and foreign, But Michel Hazanavicius’ “The [...]
The raucous after the GOP Iowa Caucus may come down to the ultimate battle: Stepford vs. the Stone Age. But any bounce Rick Santorum, the latest come-from ( way)-behind ultra-conservative to challenge the tepid front runner Mitt Romney, has may fizzle after Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Most polls and pundits have the race for the [...]
