Oh no! Julia Roberts couldn’t do it; nor could Amanda Peet or Denzel Washington. And it looks like Katie Holmes‘ chance to do it was over before it even began. But we had such high hopes for Morgan Freeman! He was supposed to be The One, the major movie star that would take Broadway by storm with a performance hailed by critics and ticket buyers alike. Alas, it was not to be:

… if Mr. Freeman [in The Country Girl] was still unsure of his lines, it was undetectable in the performance I saw, which exuded a low-key confidence and charm. (This is not, I hasten to point out, what the part requires at all times.) And if you compare this version’s script with Odets’s published text, the deletions and discrepancies don’t change the sense of things, though the word substitutions are often bizarrely capricious. I would happily have put up with flubbed lines if real runaway feelings accompanied them.
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In theater as in film Mr. Freeman is a quietly commanding presence. When Frank auditions for Bernie, the producer (Chip Zien) and the playwright (Remy Auberjonois) in the opening scene and begins improvising, you get a flash of the wild-card artistry that makes Bernie prize him. Otherwise he seems natural, affable, occasionally irritable, but not like a man wrestling with demons.

Scarlett Johansson wasted no time in debuting her engagement ring from fiancé Ryan Reynolds at last night’s Costume Institute Gala at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pretty much every celebrity you can imagine was in attendance (except for Reynolds), and 95 percent of the wardrobe choices made our heart cry.

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Huge bows on gowns for adults seem arrogant. Aesthetically it’s alright, but psychologically it rubs me the wrong way. Are we supposed to take from it that just your presence is a present? Well, excuuuuuuuuse me! On top of that, to have the bow wrap around the waist is taking things even further down the untouchable road with an undoing-my-belt-is-a-gift teen abstinence vibe that is the exact opposite of sexy. Maybe I’m reaching here, but I don’t like it.

Regardless, Amanda Peet is really beautiful and underrated.

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