Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Hughes Guys
I am 2/3 into "The Aviator" Lo and Behold: DiCaprio can act. Fascinating spectacle, period piece, and probing look at the somewhat unbalanced oddity of a legend that was Howard Hughes. Cate Blanchett is also brilliant as Katherine Hepburn, capturing her humanity and inner conflicts as well as her energy and attitude, thus avoiding clichés and really inhabiting the character. Another surprise is Frances Conroy as Hepburn's mother - she looks like the Ruth Fisher character she plays on Six Feet Under - let's face it, it's an unmistakably unique face - but in voice and body language, she seems like an older Hepburn. Howard's dinner with Hepburn's family is an cringe-inducing exercise is not fitting in, tumult, and serial interruption. Essential viewing.Speaking of Six Feet Under, here's a funeral home-themed Cartoon:
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