Author Julie Gilbert Discusses the Writing of Her New Book ‘Giant Love’
Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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Amazon Prime van in Milan. Photograph by Saggittarius A, via Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 . Kinsey (2004) dir. Bill Condon ★★★☆☆ Biopics Are Always a Little Disappointing … February 10, 2005 No matter how well scripted, they’re hidebound by having to stick to the outward facts of their subject’s life. I haven’t seen a good one since Lady Sings the Blues and even that wasn’t awfully good, though it was fascinating. So is Kinsey , I expect, though people don’t seem to want to go to it. My friend Wayne and I went last night and three women sitting behind us and to the left were laughing at themselves and their own naïveté because, as it turned out, they had come to the theater thinking they were seeing Kinsey Millhone, the Sue Grafton heroine, brought to life by Laura Linney. They didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when they discovered they were in for a picture showing how America gradually opened up to the idea of sex when supported by science. Another rule of thumb is most movies starring John Lithgow and Veronica Cartwright as the parents are probably going to be pretty overplayed. This was the case here. Seeing this movie was like going into a time tunnel of the cinema—so many of the actors haven’t been in an A movie in ages. Timothy Hutton, Lynn Redgrave, John Lithgow, Katharine Houghton (the young girl from Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner , now looking unimaginably aged), and even Chris O’Donnell from the Batman movies. How did he get another job? He’s looking good. But Peter Sarsgaard provokes most of the attention by slipping out of his clothes in a cheap hotel room and heading for the shower. Kinsey doesn’t know which way to look but you can see where his eyes are straying to. Peter Sarsgaard isn’t the luckiest guy in the size department, but he’s got nothing to complain about, and once his pants come down, you can predict what’s going to happen through the rest of the movie. I wonder if the […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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