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With an extended stage taking up nearly as much space as the audience, director Robyn Nevin gives the lithe film star room to prowl. A new adaptation by Blanchett's husband, Andrew Upton, which splices up Ibsen's acerbic dialogue as if in a Robert Altman movie, keeps things brisk and tense. And Blanchett plays Hedda - whose dalliance with old flame Lovborg (Aden Young) brings her under scrutiny by family friend Judge Brack (Hugo Weaving) - as neither victim nor villain, but rather as a kind of classy control freak. This most un-neurotic of actresses makes Hedda's animal instinct...
...account of the incident written by Jacobsen, a passenger on Flight 327. She detailed what she said was odd behavior of the passengers (for instance, getting up several times during the flight, going to the bathroom often, congregating in the aisle) and described the increasing concern she and her husband felt. She said the flight attendants were also frightened, so much so that they seemed too scared to confront...
...politician and very focused on doing her thing seriously. Then you have someone like Laura Bush, who is much more in the mold of her mother-in-law. Supportive, with a sense of humor seemingly. I don't know her well, but she seems the right wife for her husband, and I'm glad that she was there on 9/11. And Rosalynn Carter. I knew them, but I was still young. Obviously, she's extremely bright. I keep thinking, What would Rosalynn have done had she been Elizabeth, you know, with a law degree and literature degree? She might...
EDWARDS: That's the best, isn't it? I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs. If someone undertakes a job of the magnitude of President of the United States, they need a partner who they completely trust...
Some women, to be sure, would be unhappy no matter what their husbands' occupations and would turn in their despair to drink, to drugs, to affairs. But probably no other career makes such relentless demands on wives and families as politics. Witness Pat Nixon in virtual exile at San Clemente. "We are worried about Pat," an associate of the Nixons confides. "She has not been in touch with any of her close friends. It's not like her"... [The political wife] becomes public property, an extension of the public man, subject to unending scrutiny, judgments, accolades and criticisms...