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...stars are actually pretty good--Moore holds the camera's gaze as securely as any actress--but they can't save this revisionist slog. The film blames the 17th century for not being the 20th and Hawthorne for not being Danielle Steel. If this Scarlet got a letter, it would...
...with a Squirrel, 1765. It shows his 16-year-old stepbrother Henry Pelham absorbed in reverie in front of a red curtain, his gaze slightly raised like a Guido Reni saint as he toys with a gold chain. The other end of the chain is attached to a tame flying squirrel nibbling a nut. Everything in the painting is a show of skill in illusion: the squirrel's pelt, the reflections and the thread of white highlight on the mahogany tabletop, the glass of water (to show how well he could do transparency), the boy's fresh, young skin...
...bodice. What is especially striking about it is the way it preserves Quaker ideas of matrimonial equality. Conventional 18th century portraits have the wife looking adoringly at the husband, who looks at you. Not here: it is Sarah who occupies the foreground and fixes you with a composed, level gaze, while Thomas looks at her with a pride that seems very far from proprietorial complacency. It is a beautiful reflection of the equality of man and wife in a voluntary contract...
...this cautionary tale of blond ambition, Kidman concocts a savory cocktail of strychnine and syrup. Imagine a bourgeois sex kitten mistaken for a prom queen. Her eyes are fixed in a cutesy-predatory gaze that evokes and parodies the early Ann-Margret and her cinema avatars Melanie Griffith and Drew Barrymore. Her voice has the blithe assurance of someone who has never been told no. On her teeth is a little lipstick residue, like unlicked blood. She's got It, and she knows how to peddle it. In this small-town, pastel-pretty version of Network, Suzanne strides toward...
...ouiji board's design prowess make him a perpetually fetching image: Keeve never probes beyond the show that Mizrahi chooses to put on, but that's revealing in itself. At one point, the artist pauses in the middle of a Pronouncement to a studio of followers, his gaze riveted to a worktable. "Who's doing the crossword?" he asks. "Iguana!" Then it's back to the masses...