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...welfare of their fellow man. Let's not promote warped values and discount the meaning of heroism by equating it with mere media celebrity. Perhaps we should put famous entertainers and sports figures in the category of idols in order to retain the true meaning of the word hero. Maria Esperanza Bago Las Piñas, the Philippines...
...film suffers from a haphazard and disorganized structure; the shaky cinematography is positively migraine-inducing; and the “mood” lighting simply worked to obscure any attempt to discern what was happening. Stage Beauty opens with Maria (Claire Danes) standing wistfully in the wings while watching a performance of Othello’s Desdemona by her employer, London’s “leading lady” Ned Kynston (Billy Crudup). She mouths his lines with practised passion, for despite a ban on female actresses in public theater, Maria—surprise, surprise—harbors...
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Right on cue, a rather capricious King Charles II (Rupert Everett) abruptly reverses the law and allows only women to play female roles on stage. From there, the film follows the meteoric decline of Crudup’s Kynston from respected actor to glorified drag queen. Meanwhile, Maria realizes that under the harsh glare of the spotlight, she lacks any theatrical talent (if only Danes had reached the same conclusion prior to filming). She must reassure the enraged and borderline-suicidal Kynston who must now content himself with playing the bawdy drinking houses of working-class London where...
...addition to the significant absence of Gwyneth Paltrow’s come-hither androgynous sultriness and sans Tom Stoppard’s once-over on the screenplay, Stage Beauty is a raucous, vulgar mess. Between two rather abrupt (and unsatisfying) oral sex scenes, cliché moments of Maria finding her on-stage presence (again with the doe eyes) and its hamfisted themes of gender identity, the filmmakers abandoned any attempt to make a coherent and entertaining film—or to give viewers a taste of the 17th century, as Shakespeare in Love did so well...