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...MARCIA GAY HARDEN POLLOCK There's this really fearless quality to her, this dark side," says Ed Harris, who directed and played opposite Harden in the brutally honest biography of the self-absorbed, self-destructive and sullenly inarticulate genius of American action painting. "She's not afraid to be ugly." Or, as it turns out, to admit even at this late date that she doesn't fully understand her character, Pollock's wife Lee Krasner, who pretty much abandoned her painting career to support his. She guesses Krasner "sacrificed what she sacrificed" because "she loved him first and foremost...
STARRING: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden DIRECTOR: Ed Harris OPENS: Dec. 15 in N.Y. and L.A.; wide...
...script by Barbara Turner and Susan J. Emshwiller offers no explanation of the painter's dysfunction or his genius. We meet him pretty much when his wife Lee Krasner (the excellent Harden) does: hanging around Greenwich Village in the 1940s, struggling to break away from his imitative work. Then we see him achieve his breakthrough and watch his burgeoning celebrity do him in. There has never been a more antiheroic biopic than this one. Or a better portrait of the artist as a hopeless mess...
...elections. The Democrats have little incentive to negotiate and compromise. It's going to have to be George W. and the Republicans that do the lion's share of compromising to move legislation." And as the 2002 election nears "people will begin to choose up sides and harden their positions," worries Bingaman...
...insoluble mystery, and that's precisely what Harris, the star, director and co-producer of Pollock, does. The script by Barbara Turner and Susan J. Emshwiller offers no explanation of the painter's dysfunction or his genius. We meet him pretty much when his wife Lee Krasner (the excellent Harden) does: hanging around Greenwich Village in the 1940s, struggling to break away from his imitative work. Then we see him achieve his breakthrough and watch his burgeoning celebrity do him in. There has never been a more antiheroic biopic than this one. Or a better portrait of the artist...