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...saga that began in a bar near the White House on a December afternoon in 1974. Huddled at a meeting arranged by Wall Street Journal editorial writer Jude Wanniski were Cheney, then the deputy chief of staff to Republican President Gerald Ford, and Laffer, who was teaching at the University of Chicago's business school after a stint in the Nixon White House. In trying to explain to Cheney why a tax hike mooted by the President might not be such a great idea, Laffer drew a chart on a napkin that showed government revenues increasing as the tax rate...
...overpower the icon’s softer, more introspective nature. Gere, in the same way, retains that signature chivalry and charm that makes him too sweet to be true. Ledger and Whishaw play compelling incarnations of Dylan.But nothing compares to Cate Blanchett. Put simply, she steals the show. As Jude, her performance is utterly compelling, and this electric phase of Dylan’s life is so fascinating that watching Blanchett feels like watching Dylan in Martin Scorsese’s 2005 documentary “No Direction Home.” She channels Dylan. Her voice is perfect...
...course, the conceit of Todd Haynes's movie is that none of them is really playing Dylan. They're playing fictions named Jude and Billy and so forth, each of them a fictionalized aspects of the icon's life and the problems he has encountered living it. The black lad represents the soulful yearnings of his art, Gere plays his outlaw impulses, while others engage with his romantic and marital difficulties. Blanchett does him at the height of drug and celebrity-addled fame, which Haynes largely shoots in a Fellini-like manner (at one point she is obliged to wrestle...
Michael Caine, Jude Law, Kenneth Branagh, and Harold Pinter: four men with 2 Oscars, 12 Oscar nominations, and a Nobel Prize for literature between them. Throw in a story that won a Tony when it was a play and won critical accolades when it was first adapted for film in 1972, and this remake of Anthony Shaffer’s “Sleuth” ought to be an instant success...
...Jude Law as Tindle begins by relying on his standard on-screen persona—charming, arrogant and naïve. But as the plot unravels, he becomes hysterical and his actions are wildly exaggerated. Compared to Caine’s subtle portrayal of Tindle, Law’s acting distracts the viewer and results in a less effective performance...