'Frances' is a Pack of Lies
So what's the problem with "creative nonfiction"? Ah right: it turns biography into lies. Which is a shame, when the truth is so much more interesting! So here's the strange truth about Frances Farmer.
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The Emmys: The Great Lead Actress in a Miniseries Mystery
Which one of these things is not like the other?
Emmy Nominations for Lead Actress in a Miniseries Maggie Smith Joan Allen Dame Judi Dench Hope Davis Claire Danes
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Please Can We Have Janet McTeer Be a Famous Person in America?
"It says much for McTeer that the obvious question—'What are the chances of two cross-dressers meeting trouser to trouser in late-nineteenth-century Dublin?'—hardly enters our minds. Stately and swaggering, taller than most of the men, and sporting the dark forelock of the natural rake, McTeer, who has been Oscar-nominated for best supporting actress, carries conviction as easily as she wears her breeches and corduroy jacket, transforming Hubert’s rangy physical confidence into a larger embrace of life’s amusements and kicks. She is no perhapser but a thoroughgoing yes-woman, like Molly Bloom." —Anthony Lane is totally on board with my campaign: Janet McTeer must win Best Supporting Actress this year (for [...]
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The History of Hedy
You probably knew that Hedy Lamarr held patents for encrypting radio communications that were later instrumental in, among other things, Wifi-but did you know that she was the first woman in cinematic history to simulate orgasm? THE MORE YOU KNOW.
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'Times' Profile Guessing Game: Laura Linney? Or Patricia Clarkson?
Two profiles diverged in a gray newspaper-and sorry I could not read both. Let's play: Which Times' actress profile was it? Was it… Patricia Clarkson or Laura Linney?
