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Cate Blanchett’s ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ Performance Is Her Most Affected to Date

Cate Blanchett tries her best as a wealthy and misanthropic former MacArthur 'Genius' Grant recipient in this overstuffed misfire.

By Oliver Jones

Cate Blanchett Tried to Turn Her Kids Vegetarian by Getting Them Baby Pigs

'It was this Machiavellian vegetarian plan,' Blanchett says, adding that her family piglets were 'very cute and smelled kind of like smelly people.'

By Helen Holmes

Postcards From the Past

This One Is MineBy Maria SempleLittle, Brown, 289 pages, $24.99 At the beginning of Maria Semple’s debut novel, This One

By Meredith Bryan

Betty White on Lousy Sitcoms … Paul Haggis Is Back

By Peter Bogdanovich

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