Greta Gerwig
Once, when praising Greta Gerwig to a woman critic, I was sternly told: “I don’t get her – is it a guy thing?” Well, yes and no. There’s a retro rescue-me quality about Gerwig’s combination of Carole Lombard-like madcap-ness, physical awkwardness,...
Over the last eight years, Woody Allen has taken a touristy approach to the European settings of most of his films, but it has not been as all-consuming as often alleged: “Match Point” and “Cassandra’s Dream” offered flickers of working-class London. “You...
In January 2009, Naomi Watts posed as the “Seven Year Itch” Marilyn Monroe on the cover of the French Madame Figaro magazine. Ali Mahdavi’s photograph of Watts with her lids half closed and her scarlet lips wide open made for a facsimile of Monroe that was no...
One of the most ambitious and sophisticated drama series attempted by HBO has fallen at the first hurdle: The pay-cabler has rejected the pilot for “The Corrections” and canceled the projected series based on Jonathan Franzen’s acclaimed 2001 novel.Instead,...
