Word: robertses
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Julia Roberts, what has she got? A nice face, modest acting ability, an imposing resume and plenty of media coverage. But, mostly, she's got big hits. In the popular Steel Magnolias she parlayed a deathbed scene into an Oscar nomination. She was the Cinderella slattern in Pretty Woman, a...
Why, then, does one suspect that Roberts has been more lucky than smart? Because there is an emptiness at the core of her charm. You will look in vain for, say, the weary beauty of Michelle Pfeiffer, the elfin intensity of Winona Ryder, the resilient wit of Jodie Foster, the...
She will be tested with the release of Sleeping with the Enemy, a subordinary thriller with the requisite tingles and cheats expected of a woman-in-jeopardy melodrama. Here Roberts is Laura Burney, abused wife. Her husband Martin (Patrick Bergin) oozes empathy and flares into brutality. If she does anything...
In Nancy Price's novel, Martin was as fully formed a predator as Laura was a prey. And at the climax, she finally got to be in control of their marriage. But this movie is interested neither in getting under a psychopath's scalp nor in making Laura a feminist...
The hottest thing traipsing through Hollywood last week was not another $1 million, half-written movie script, or Julia Roberts, or even Warner Bros.' squad of shiny dark Jaguars. Instead it was a supposedly top-secret 28-page memo from Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief of Walt Disney Studios, to a small...