Word: blanchette
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...Someone who looks a lot like the mid-'60s Bob Dylan - except that he's called Jude Quinn and is played by Cate Blanchett - is lounging in a London hotel room, reading what he thinks are exaggerated news reports of his behavior. "God," he mutters, "I'm glad...
...actors who impersonate some aspect of Dylan. The young, Minnesota Bob is played by a charming black kid, Marcus Carl Franklin, who gives every indication of being a blues-guitar prodigy. A 19-year-old Dylan, spouting aphorisms at a court hearing, is London stage actor Ben Whishaw. Blanchett plays prime-time Bob, the electrified folk-rock star who's getting annoyed by fame. The '70s, counterfeit-cowboy Dylan is Richard Gere. The movie leaps further into fancy by inventing Jake Rollins (Christian Bale), the Dylan character in a Hollywoodish '60s biopic called Grain of Sand, and Robbie Clarke (Heath...
...Blanchett's, of course, is the star turn. both because it's an inspired stunt that she executes with aplomb (she's a more convincing Dylan, no joke, than she was a Katharine Hepburn) and because she's playing Dylan in 1965, the year he lost his old-folkie admirers on his way to rock stardom. With a fabulous frizz do, and a posture stooped by the burden of celebrity, s/he cavorts with the Beatles at a garden party, meets Allen Ginsberg (Arrested Development's David Cross) on the road and - it was always a game with Dylan - deflects reporters...
Valentino Garavani, 75, the Roman couturier who has dressed some of the most famous women in the world, including Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor and Cate Blanchett, will retire in January after his haute couture show in Paris. Alessandra Facchinetti, a former designer of Gucci, will replace the legendary couturier as creative director of the Valentino women's collections, it was announced Wednesday by the London-based private equity fund, Permira, which owns a controlling stake in Valentino Fashion Group...
...ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE Nine years ago, Cate Blanchett brought her biopic of England's legendary Tudor queen to Toronto; this smart, stately film garnered seven Oscar nominations. Blanchett re-teams with director Shekhar Kapur for the sequel, about Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen...