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...hobby has become equally hot among the on-the-set set. Hilary Swank of Boys Don't Cry chatted with Jay Leno about her passion for the craft, joining the celebrity knitting circle that includes Julia Roberts, Winona Ryder and, yes, Monica Lewinsky...
...both her appearance and her manner. Jolie's real-life over-the-top intensity and f__-it-all attitude are nearly as unsettling as her screen performances, like the self-destructive fashion model in HBO's 1998 movie Gia and the dangerously seductive mental patient paired with Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted. At 24, she behaves like an awkward teenager trapped in a centerfold's body...
...declaration that few U.S. collectors, haunted as they were by the specter of provincialism, would have made. He began with those two heroes of realism, Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer. But Phillips' taste was more for the visionary, especially for the dark, light-mottled sea pieces of Albert Pinkham Ryder, and for the younger painters they inspired--Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin and others. He was convinced that the defining characteristics of American art were more spiritual than stylistic and that they had been laid down in the 19th century...
...Dove: a belief that "abstraction" was not autonomous, that it was a way of getting to the core of reality by jettisoning whatever might be incidental. Then, Phillips wrote, "abstract art ceases to be an amusement for the aesthete and becomes a divine activity." Phillips couldn't be Ryder's patron: the man was dead. But he was Dove's lifeline, acquiring some 55 works during the years of their friendship. "After fighting for an idea all your life, I realize that your backing has saved it for me, and I want to thank you with all my heart...
Call that the not-so-new sentimentality. But call Ryder's performance as Kaysen first rate. She moves very persuasively from puzzled, rather passive resentment over her incarceration to a lively awareness of her problems to, finally, edgy mental health. Jolie is more problematic as her best friend, an overt rebel whose assertiveness leads to the movie's most tragic--and heavily fictionalized--passage. There is something tiresome in her toughness. But that's emblematic of the whole movie, which misses what was most engaging about Kaysen's memoir--the unique sound of her voice, mostly drowned out here...