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DIED. JANE ENGELHARD, 86, art lover and grande dame of New York society; in Nantucket, Mass. Along with her phenomenally wealthy husband Charles, she was active in Democratic Party politics and helped Jacqueline Kennedy restore the White House. Her collection included the original presidential proclamation of the Louisiana Purchase. A trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1974 to '81, she also donated to such institutions as the New Jersey Symphony, some years paying the salary of the orchestra...
...Bernard Shaw, Edith Evans, Orson Welles - it's hard to keep track; one 1952 note alone manages to mention meetings with Charlie Chaplin, Igor Stravinsky and Noël Coward. Editor Richard Mangan has mostly concentrated on the correspondents with whom Gielgud was intimate - including his mother, his onetime lover Paul Anstee, the actress Irene Worth, photographer and designer Cecil Beaton and the playwright Hugh Wheeler. The early part of the volume is dominated by correspondence to his mother (the only family member who figures prominently), and is full of excited career talk as he achieves success. Then comes...
...beyond the cosmetic alterations to reward Theron’s breakthrough work, which painstakingly recreates the intense discomfort of a woman desperate to find a reason not to shoot herself at any given moment. At the film’s core is Wuornos’ tumultuous relationship with flippant lover Selby Wall (Christina Ricci). Though Jenkins fails to offer a believable relationship between these two individuals and Ricci sits through an unnaturally amateurish performance, Monster is ultimately redeemed by Theron’s resonant performance...
...beyond the cosmetic alterations to reward Theron’s breakthrough work, which painstakingly recreates the intense discomfort of a woman desperate to find a reason not to shoot herself at any given moment. At the film’s core is Wuornos’ tumultuous relationship with flippant lover Selby Wall (Christina Ricci). Though Jenkins fails to offer a believable relationship between these two individuals and Ricci sits through an unnaturally amateurish performance, Monster is ultimately redeemed by Theron’s resonant performance...
...beyond the cosmetic alterations to reward Theron’s breakthrough work, which painstakingly recreates the intense discomfort of a woman desperate to find a reason not to shoot herself at any given moment. At the film’s core is Wuornos’ tumultuous relationship with flippant lover Selby Wall (Christina Ricci). Though Jenkins fails to offer a believable relationship between these two individuals and Ricci sits through an unnaturally amateurish performance, Monster is ultimately redeemed by Theron’s resonant performance...