A Night at the Theater With Aunt Edna and the Glums

Never underestimate the fortitude of the middle classes of England. Though they appear to be half-dead, they stoically endure. In their innately repressed way, they survive by bloodlessly appearing to have no emotion. Emotion frightens the horses. You must deduce what the reticent middle-class Englishman is thinking from what he doesn’t say. Should a massive Read More

Naughty Nicole

Nicole Kidman is on a reconnaissance mission-to rescue her own career. With both the noisy, hysterical, over-the-top faux musical Moulin Rouge and the serenely haunting The Others still jockeying for Oscar position, the freshly liberated ex–Mrs. Tom Cruise takes a dramatic left turn with yet another new film, Birthday Girl . She was woefully miscast Read More