Word: blanchette
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...those unable to catch Cate Blanchett in the Sydney Theatre Company's new production of Hedda Gabler - and with only a handful of standing-room tickets available each night for the remainder of the season, that means most people - there is a consolation: this Hedda is horrible, and Blanchett's performance is terrible. Horrible in the sense that, 114 years after it was written, Henrik Ibsen's play, about the attempts of a general's daughter to transcend her loveless marriage to a feckless history professor, is as misanthropic as ever. And terrible, in that Blanchett's performance inspires...
...Hosted by Harley Street midwife, acupuncturist and fertility expert Zita West (whose clients include Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett), the 7-night, 10-night and 14-night retreats promise to "help maximize fertility and restore the mind and body for conception." All programs include an hour-long private consultation with West as well as relevant spa, fitness and holistic treatments. Curious couples can find out more by browsing chivasom.com or zitawest.com...
...giants of modern dance. Having done away with formal balletic movements, she helped pioneer "dance-theater," a genre which fuses dance with bits of dialogue and song. Like real people, Bausch's dancers flirt, eat, drink, burp and fall over. Her devotees range from actress Cate Blanchett to movie director Pedro Almodóvar, who paid homage to the choreographer by opening and closing his Oscar-winning film Talk to Her with two Bausch performances. The Istanbul show is the latest in a series of pieces inspired by geographic locations that has seen Bausch and her colorful dance company Tanztheater...
...just given birth to twin boys Kian and Kaiis, Helen Hunt bore girl MaKena lei Gordon, Rachel Griffiths christened a son Banjo Patrick, Jason Lee had boy Pilot Inspektor, and Cedric the Entertainer welcomed daughter Lucky Rose. And the august-sounding Roman appears to be the new Jack--Cate Blanchett and Debra Messing chose it for their sons this year. How will Mary-Louise Parker's son ever be able to hold his head up at celebrity day care? He got saddled with William...
...best of these has Blanchett as a slim, chic movie star taking a break from a day of interviews to meet her cousin, whom she also plays, in a hotel lobby. The cousin is a mess--hooked up with a trashed rocker, nursing and occasionally flashing her envious grievances at her star relative. They would like to pretend that nothing has changed since childhood. Both know better. You will cringe. You will laugh uncomfortably. You will get the basic idea of Jarmusch's movie, which is that all his anecdotal encounters are about the betrayal of the coffee-and-cigarettes...