“Where’d You Go, Bernadette” and “Good Boys.”
In 2005, the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role—what a mouthful—went to Cate Blanchett, for playing Katharine Hepburn in “The Aviator,” opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, as Howard Hughes. “Aren’t we a fine pair of misfits?” Hepburn asks him, more amused than rattled by his wealth, and casually trouncing him at golf. What defeats Hughes is not her short game so much as the fade of her long and lofted vowels. As you’d expect, these are feigned to perfection by Blanchett, though the film doesn’t allow her portrayal of Hepburn to be much more than a star turn, and we are left wondering: Could Blanchett conjure up the spirit of her predecessor— that earthy air, both queenly and puckish—without recourse to impersonation?
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In the beginning was the mob, and the mob was bad. In Gibbon’s 1776 “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” the Roman mob makes regular appearances, usually at the instigation of a demagogue, loudly demanding to be placated with free food and entertainment (“bread and circuses”), and, though they don’t get to rule, they sometimes get to choose who will.
GAINING CONTROL
The frenemies who fought to bring contraception to this country.
REBELS WITH A CAUSE
In the new FX/Hulu series “Say Nothing,” life as an armed revolutionary during the Troubles has—at least at first—an air of glamour.
AGAINST THE CURRENT
\"Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!,\" at Soho Rep, and \"Gatz,\" at the Public.
METAMORPHOSIS
The director Marielle Heller explores the feral side of child rearing.
THE BIG SPIN
A district attorney's office investigates how its prosecutors picked death-penalty juries.
THIS ELECTION JUST PROVES WHAT I ALREADY BELIEVED
I hate to say I told you so, but here we are. Kamala Harris’s loss will go down in history as a catastrophe that could have easily been avoided if more people had thought whatever I happen to think.
HOLD YOUR TONGUE
Can the world's most populous country protect its languages?
A LONG WAY HOME
Ordinarily, I hate staying at someone's house, but when Hugh and I visited his friend Mary in Maine we had no other choice.
YULE RULES
“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point.”
