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Claire interview for Newsweek:
Oct. 24, 2005 issue - Q&A: CLAIRE DANES
Claire Danes plays a department-store clerk who sells gloves in the upcoming movie "Shopgirl"
Hello?
I'm in the rain right now. And I'm about to hwead up to the gym. Sorry about all this.
What's your workout like?
I usually concentrate on lifting. Sometimes I kickbox. Joe is my trainer. Joe, what do I do? I drag the sleds. Do you know what the sled is?
No.
The sled is—I don't even know how to describe it. It's a metal thing that you pile lots of weight on and then pull across the floor.
Is it hard?
Wow. Zoe is licking me.
Who's Zoe?
Zoe is Joe's dog. I have a dog named Ouija.
Like the board?
Like the photographer [Weegee]. But the photographer named himself after the board.
Did you work out for your nude scene in "Shopgirl"?
No. I started working out after.
Will you ever act onstage?
I've only done off-off-Broadway, in the form of dance.
But you were at this year's Tonys.
Yeah. But I was with my boyfriend, who was nominated.
Am I allowed to ask about him?
No.
Can I say that he's Billy Crudup?
Other people do all the time.
I hear you have a swing hanging in your apartment.
Yeah, like in this open space.
Do you actually swing?
I do, often.
By yourself?
Yes. I used to have a swing and a trapeze and a trampoline and a hammock.
A trapeze? What for—swinging?
It's hard to do anything else on a trapeze
I think this was a phone interview (it sounds like it). I wonder what she was apoligising for.
Oct. 24, 2005 issue - Q&A: CLAIRE DANES
Claire Danes plays a department-store clerk who sells gloves in the upcoming movie "Shopgirl"
Hello?
I'm in the rain right now. And I'm about to hwead up to the gym. Sorry about all this.
What's your workout like?
I usually concentrate on lifting. Sometimes I kickbox. Joe is my trainer. Joe, what do I do? I drag the sleds. Do you know what the sled is?
No.
The sled is—I don't even know how to describe it. It's a metal thing that you pile lots of weight on and then pull across the floor.
Is it hard?
Wow. Zoe is licking me.
Who's Zoe?
Zoe is Joe's dog. I have a dog named Ouija.
Like the board?
Like the photographer [Weegee]. But the photographer named himself after the board.
Did you work out for your nude scene in "Shopgirl"?
No. I started working out after.
Will you ever act onstage?
I've only done off-off-Broadway, in the form of dance.
But you were at this year's Tonys.
Yeah. But I was with my boyfriend, who was nominated.
Am I allowed to ask about him?
No.
Can I say that he's Billy Crudup?
Other people do all the time.
I hear you have a swing hanging in your apartment.
Yeah, like in this open space.
Do you actually swing?
I do, often.
By yourself?
Yes. I used to have a swing and a trapeze and a trampoline and a hammock.
A trapeze? What for—swinging?
It's hard to do anything else on a trapeze
I think this was a phone interview (it sounds like it). I wonder what she was apoligising for.
Interview with Claire and Jason Schwatrzman:
If you're wondering whether Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman are the same quirky, silly people in real life they sometimes portray on screen, well, they are. They're goofy and good-natured, and right now a bit loopy, possibly from a full day's-worth of press promoting their latest film, "Shopgirl", one of the featured presentations at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Danes stars as Mirabelle, a lonely Vermont girl working the gloves counter in an L.A. department store, and Schwartzman is Jeremy, an awkward slacker enamored by Mirabelle.
When the actors enter the room for a quick roundtable interview, they are immediately fascinated with the colorful candy on the table that looks like small stones.
"They look really beautiful," Danes exalts.
"It looks like fish tank rocks," says Schwartzman. "Chocolate rocks! ... If you catch the pun," he adds with a laugh.
He takes a glance at the beverage next to the candy. "Oh yes, my sterling silver water bottle holder, just like I asked! Never touch a water bottle while you drink it. I actually used to smoke with a silver holder and then I quit smoking so I transposed it to not drinking things that come near my mouth."
Danes is hysterical for all of this.
The actress is classy and casual in a jacket and top combination, and the long-haired, bearded Schwartzman, decked out in a tan suit with white Adidas gym shoes, looks like he just walked off the set of "I Heart Huckabees." But more than anything, it appears the main reason they seem so comfortable is the enjoyment they got from working together.
"It was such a thrill to work with Jason," Danes says. "I want to do it many, many, many times again. He's so modest and silly. I was just following him. We always talk about how it's so important to be in the moment, and I just feel like I didn't have a choice because what he was doing was so compelling and surprising. He kept me really engaged."
"I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set and I started to act with Claire, that was when the character came out of me," Schwartzman says. "So a lot of my character really [Schwartzman's character] Jeremy's skeleton, but she was like an X-ray machine, and you could see it all of a sudden."
Discussing their passion for the experience of shooting "Shopgirl" is practically the only time when they can give answers without a joke slipped in, playing off each other like old friends. Schwartzman never skips a beat, though Danes reacts slightly more expressively to her own giddiness.
"I think Jeremy wants things, and I think that's a great moment when (Mirabelle) says, 'You should just do it,'" Danes says. "I think she just harnesses it or funnels it into some sort of point, and all of a sudden he has a goal. But I think at the beginning it's just a frustration and a desire to do things, but he doesn't really know how to do them, and that's what sets him off on believing you can make the things that you don't see happen. I think he has ambition; I don't think he's familiar with how that feels."
"I'm getting familiar with these chocolate rocks," she adds.
Indeed, Schwartzman's Jeremy is an over-zealous, lovestruck puppy, whom the actor plays with a frantic, unself-conscious determination. To play Mirabelle, much more subtlety was required from Danes.
"It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen all the time, and she has to remain compelling and entertaining," Danes says. "I was really nervous that people were not going to stay with me while I was just staying behind that bloody counter."
The film is an unconventional romantic comedy in that there's a hint of sadness woven in Steve Martin's script, but Schwartzman says he thinks "Shopgirl" is ultimately an uplifting story.
"I think it ends on a strange, whimsical note. What keeps it for me from getting sad at the end is that they've all arrived at these places, and we've seen them get to these places and we've seen the work that it took to get there, and there is a feeling for me that for each of these people a new journey will begin. To me it ends more like a suspended note."
"I love the ending!" Danes exclaims. "I'm so reassured by the ending, but I know a lot of people have a different experience. I think it is kind of ambiguous. I think it's a coming of age story for everybody involved, even the old fogeys. He's supposed to be a grownup when we meet him, but is really limited and terrified of surrendering control and investing in another person and loving selflessly."
Growing up in the '80s, Schwartzman's family would bond over movie-going, often seeing Martin's comedies. And while the actor says he does not know life as an actor without Martin in it, he reiterates the connection that came from working with Danes and the way she helped him connect with his character.
"Every time I walk out there [on set] it's a different world for me. And I'm still trying to get comfortable. My pace was changed by (Claire's) pace. To work together was incredible.
"I admired the character and wished I had more of his ability not to be so censoring. I think you can over-think yourself into not saying what you feel, or you get a gut reaction and you immediately contradict it with logic or reality or consequence. I think this character was great because he only knows really what's in front of him, which is dangerous but also inspiring."
If you're wondering whether Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman are the same quirky, silly people in real life they sometimes portray on screen, well, they are. They're goofy and good-natured, and right now a bit loopy, possibly from a full day's-worth of press promoting their latest film, "Shopgirl", one of the featured presentations at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Danes stars as Mirabelle, a lonely Vermont girl working the gloves counter in an L.A. department store, and Schwartzman is Jeremy, an awkward slacker enamored by Mirabelle.
When the actors enter the room for a quick roundtable interview, they are immediately fascinated with the colorful candy on the table that looks like small stones.
"They look really beautiful," Danes exalts.
"It looks like fish tank rocks," says Schwartzman. "Chocolate rocks! ... If you catch the pun," he adds with a laugh.
He takes a glance at the beverage next to the candy. "Oh yes, my sterling silver water bottle holder, just like I asked! Never touch a water bottle while you drink it. I actually used to smoke with a silver holder and then I quit smoking so I transposed it to not drinking things that come near my mouth."
Danes is hysterical for all of this.
The actress is classy and casual in a jacket and top combination, and the long-haired, bearded Schwartzman, decked out in a tan suit with white Adidas gym shoes, looks like he just walked off the set of "I Heart Huckabees." But more than anything, it appears the main reason they seem so comfortable is the enjoyment they got from working together.
"It was such a thrill to work with Jason," Danes says. "I want to do it many, many, many times again. He's so modest and silly. I was just following him. We always talk about how it's so important to be in the moment, and I just feel like I didn't have a choice because what he was doing was so compelling and surprising. He kept me really engaged."
"I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set and I started to act with Claire, that was when the character came out of me," Schwartzman says. "So a lot of my character really [Schwartzman's character] Jeremy's skeleton, but she was like an X-ray machine, and you could see it all of a sudden."
Discussing their passion for the experience of shooting "Shopgirl" is practically the only time when they can give answers without a joke slipped in, playing off each other like old friends. Schwartzman never skips a beat, though Danes reacts slightly more expressively to her own giddiness.
"I think Jeremy wants things, and I think that's a great moment when (Mirabelle) says, 'You should just do it,'" Danes says. "I think she just harnesses it or funnels it into some sort of point, and all of a sudden he has a goal. But I think at the beginning it's just a frustration and a desire to do things, but he doesn't really know how to do them, and that's what sets him off on believing you can make the things that you don't see happen. I think he has ambition; I don't think he's familiar with how that feels."
"I'm getting familiar with these chocolate rocks," she adds.
Indeed, Schwartzman's Jeremy is an over-zealous, lovestruck puppy, whom the actor plays with a frantic, unself-conscious determination. To play Mirabelle, much more subtlety was required from Danes.
"It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen all the time, and she has to remain compelling and entertaining," Danes says. "I was really nervous that people were not going to stay with me while I was just staying behind that bloody counter."
The film is an unconventional romantic comedy in that there's a hint of sadness woven in Steve Martin's script, but Schwartzman says he thinks "Shopgirl" is ultimately an uplifting story.
"I think it ends on a strange, whimsical note. What keeps it for me from getting sad at the end is that they've all arrived at these places, and we've seen them get to these places and we've seen the work that it took to get there, and there is a feeling for me that for each of these people a new journey will begin. To me it ends more like a suspended note."
"I love the ending!" Danes exclaims. "I'm so reassured by the ending, but I know a lot of people have a different experience. I think it is kind of ambiguous. I think it's a coming of age story for everybody involved, even the old fogeys. He's supposed to be a grownup when we meet him, but is really limited and terrified of surrendering control and investing in another person and loving selflessly."
Growing up in the '80s, Schwartzman's family would bond over movie-going, often seeing Martin's comedies. And while the actor says he does not know life as an actor without Martin in it, he reiterates the connection that came from working with Danes and the way she helped him connect with his character.
"Every time I walk out there [on set] it's a different world for me. And I'm still trying to get comfortable. My pace was changed by (Claire's) pace. To work together was incredible.
"I admired the character and wished I had more of his ability not to be so censoring. I think you can over-think yourself into not saying what you feel, or you get a gut reaction and you immediately contradict it with logic or reality or consequence. I think this character was great because he only knows really what's in front of him, which is dangerous but also inspiring."
Claire Danes gets seductive in new role
In ‘Shopgirl,’ the actress has a nude scene opposite Steve Martin
TORONTO - What if Angela Chase, the fragile teen Claire Danes played on the short-lived TV drama “My So-Called Life,” had gone on to take a few more hard romantic knocks into her mid-20s?
What if she found herself on her own, a continent removed from her parents, sharing only a superficial family relationship with her folks?
And what if Angela, who always seemed like a good candidate for Prozac, found herself diagnosed as clinically depressed and dependent on antidepressants to keep the blues at bay?
She might resemble Mirabelle, the sad-eyed wallflower Danes plays in “Shopgirl,” a romantic comic drama co-starring Steve Martin and adapted from his best-selling novella.
Danes acknowledges the similarities between her first big role and her latest.
“I think they’re both inward-looking. That’s the most obvious parallel between the two,” Danes said in an interview at September’s Toronto International Film Festival, where “Shopgirl” premiered. “Thoughtful and kind of raw, emotionally. The feelings are very close to the skin.
“That’s pretty easy for me to play, I guess,” the 26-year-old Danes added with a long laugh.
Danes herself comes across as anything but a somber, brooding wallflower like Angela or Mirabelle. Gabby, lively, even a bit goofy, Danes chatters earnestly about relationships, her forays into action films and her first nude scene.
Vital nudity
In “Shopgirl,” Danes’ Mirabelle lives in the slow lane as a sales clerk at the tranquil glove counter at Saks in Beverly Hills. Longing for love, Mirabelle finds herself pursued by a chivalrous older man (Martin) and an awkward young slacker (Jason Schwartzman).
Danes took her clothes off for Mirabelle’s first love scene with Martin’s character, a moment that left the actress uneasy. A friend told her, “It’s good you’re doing it at 25. When you’re 80, you’ll look back on this and think, I was pretty firm, so there’s that,” Danes said. “Firm at 25. That’s a feat.
“It was uncomfortable, I have to say, but I did think that it was relevant and useful,” Danes said. “Also, it’s erotic. There’s no reason to pussyfoot around that. I thought it was vital, so I stripped.”
Danes felt similarly anxious with her romantic scenes in general, and not only because the 60-year-old Martin is more than twice her age.
“It’s just as weird doing it with Steve as it is doing it with somebody my own age,” Danes said. “You’re not supposed to be kissing somebody who’s not your boyfriend. You’re just not. I don’t know when I’ll become more comfortable with it. You have to depersonalize it.”
Martin, who wrote the screenplay and was a producer on “Shopgirl,” had some difficulty articulating the ethereal quality Danes possesses that he wanted for Mirabelle.
“It’s hard to find the right expression for this, but her beauty that she keeps within, you know?” Martin said. “The character of Mirabelle really requires stillness and no artifice, and that’s what she has.”
‘Beautiful and plain’
“Shopgirl” director Anand Tucker recalled going to Sunday tea with Martin and Danes as they were casting the film. Almost instantly, he and Martin shared a glance and knew Danes was right for the part.
“She has this incredible capacity to be beautiful and plain. She allows you to see right into her in some extraordinary way. She’s not frightened to be vulnerable,” Tucker said.
“This film really happens on her face. She’s in 90 percent of the movie, and a lot of the time, she doesn’t say anything. You’re just watching her face. She has that ability that allows you to put yourself into her. That’s a very rare quality. That’s what great movie stars have. That’s what Ingrid Bergman had.”
Danes grew up in an artsy home in Manhattan’s SoHo district and began studying acting in grade school. In her early teens, she landed the lead in “My So-Called Life,” and though the show lasted only one season, it was a critical darling.
Early films included “Little Women,” “How to Make an American Quilt” and “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday.” Danes starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet,” appeared in Oliver Stone’s thriller “U Turn” and tried her hand at action with the big-screen flop “The Mod Squad.”
After taking time off to study at Yale, Danes has worked steadily the last three or four years, her films including “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” and last year’s “Stage Beauty,” in which she co-starred with Billy Crudup, now her boyfriend.
“Terminator 3” came Danes’ way after she finished three sensitive, character-driven films, “Igby Goes Down,” “The Hours” and “It’s All About Love.”
“I was really tired of that, so this opportunity landed on my lap. I was cast literally the day before I started working,” Danes said, noting that another actress cast for the “Terminator” role had not worked out and director Jonathan Mostow needed an answer from her immediately.
“It was basically a shrug of the shoulders. OK, I’m available. I like the ‘Terminator’ movies. I like Jon Mostow, so OK. It wasn’t so calculated. It was more intuitive. I just thought, ‘You know what? After a year of being really heady and really sensitive, I just want to blow some (expletive) up.”’
Next up for Danes
Late this year, Danes co-stars with Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson and Craig T. Nelson in the ensemble holiday tale “The Family Stone.” The role was a breezy departure for Danes, who plays the well-adjusted, easygoing sister of Parker’s character, an uptight businesswoman making a mess of her first meeting with her fiance’s family.
“I played a girl. There’s really nothing controversial about her. She’s just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica’s character pop,” Danes said. “I say I just play a white girl in that movie.”
Her experiences on “Shopgirl,” in which none of the characters has their act together on romance, got Danes talking with acquaintances about their own relationships. One friend, a woman who has been married for 41 years, told Danes it was only within the last year or two that she had begun to really feel secure and honest in her marriage.
“In a way, that’s really reassuring. I’m not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it’s also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time?” Danes said, laughing.
“It’s not easy. Many, many, many songs have been written about it. We wouldn’t have anything to read if relationships were easy. There would be no art in the world if we actually got along.”
© 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
In ‘Shopgirl,’ the actress has a nude scene opposite Steve Martin
TORONTO - What if Angela Chase, the fragile teen Claire Danes played on the short-lived TV drama “My So-Called Life,” had gone on to take a few more hard romantic knocks into her mid-20s?
What if she found herself on her own, a continent removed from her parents, sharing only a superficial family relationship with her folks?
And what if Angela, who always seemed like a good candidate for Prozac, found herself diagnosed as clinically depressed and dependent on antidepressants to keep the blues at bay?
She might resemble Mirabelle, the sad-eyed wallflower Danes plays in “Shopgirl,” a romantic comic drama co-starring Steve Martin and adapted from his best-selling novella.
Danes acknowledges the similarities between her first big role and her latest.
“I think they’re both inward-looking. That’s the most obvious parallel between the two,” Danes said in an interview at September’s Toronto International Film Festival, where “Shopgirl” premiered. “Thoughtful and kind of raw, emotionally. The feelings are very close to the skin.
“That’s pretty easy for me to play, I guess,” the 26-year-old Danes added with a long laugh.
Danes herself comes across as anything but a somber, brooding wallflower like Angela or Mirabelle. Gabby, lively, even a bit goofy, Danes chatters earnestly about relationships, her forays into action films and her first nude scene.
Vital nudity
In “Shopgirl,” Danes’ Mirabelle lives in the slow lane as a sales clerk at the tranquil glove counter at Saks in Beverly Hills. Longing for love, Mirabelle finds herself pursued by a chivalrous older man (Martin) and an awkward young slacker (Jason Schwartzman).
Danes took her clothes off for Mirabelle’s first love scene with Martin’s character, a moment that left the actress uneasy. A friend told her, “It’s good you’re doing it at 25. When you’re 80, you’ll look back on this and think, I was pretty firm, so there’s that,” Danes said. “Firm at 25. That’s a feat.
“It was uncomfortable, I have to say, but I did think that it was relevant and useful,” Danes said. “Also, it’s erotic. There’s no reason to pussyfoot around that. I thought it was vital, so I stripped.”
Danes felt similarly anxious with her romantic scenes in general, and not only because the 60-year-old Martin is more than twice her age.
“It’s just as weird doing it with Steve as it is doing it with somebody my own age,” Danes said. “You’re not supposed to be kissing somebody who’s not your boyfriend. You’re just not. I don’t know when I’ll become more comfortable with it. You have to depersonalize it.”
Martin, who wrote the screenplay and was a producer on “Shopgirl,” had some difficulty articulating the ethereal quality Danes possesses that he wanted for Mirabelle.
“It’s hard to find the right expression for this, but her beauty that she keeps within, you know?” Martin said. “The character of Mirabelle really requires stillness and no artifice, and that’s what she has.”
‘Beautiful and plain’
“Shopgirl” director Anand Tucker recalled going to Sunday tea with Martin and Danes as they were casting the film. Almost instantly, he and Martin shared a glance and knew Danes was right for the part.
“She has this incredible capacity to be beautiful and plain. She allows you to see right into her in some extraordinary way. She’s not frightened to be vulnerable,” Tucker said.
“This film really happens on her face. She’s in 90 percent of the movie, and a lot of the time, she doesn’t say anything. You’re just watching her face. She has that ability that allows you to put yourself into her. That’s a very rare quality. That’s what great movie stars have. That’s what Ingrid Bergman had.”
Danes grew up in an artsy home in Manhattan’s SoHo district and began studying acting in grade school. In her early teens, she landed the lead in “My So-Called Life,” and though the show lasted only one season, it was a critical darling.
Early films included “Little Women,” “How to Make an American Quilt” and “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday.” Danes starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet,” appeared in Oliver Stone’s thriller “U Turn” and tried her hand at action with the big-screen flop “The Mod Squad.”
After taking time off to study at Yale, Danes has worked steadily the last three or four years, her films including “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” and last year’s “Stage Beauty,” in which she co-starred with Billy Crudup, now her boyfriend.
“Terminator 3” came Danes’ way after she finished three sensitive, character-driven films, “Igby Goes Down,” “The Hours” and “It’s All About Love.”
“I was really tired of that, so this opportunity landed on my lap. I was cast literally the day before I started working,” Danes said, noting that another actress cast for the “Terminator” role had not worked out and director Jonathan Mostow needed an answer from her immediately.
“It was basically a shrug of the shoulders. OK, I’m available. I like the ‘Terminator’ movies. I like Jon Mostow, so OK. It wasn’t so calculated. It was more intuitive. I just thought, ‘You know what? After a year of being really heady and really sensitive, I just want to blow some (expletive) up.”’
Next up for Danes
Late this year, Danes co-stars with Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson and Craig T. Nelson in the ensemble holiday tale “The Family Stone.” The role was a breezy departure for Danes, who plays the well-adjusted, easygoing sister of Parker’s character, an uptight businesswoman making a mess of her first meeting with her fiance’s family.
“I played a girl. There’s really nothing controversial about her. She’s just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica’s character pop,” Danes said. “I say I just play a white girl in that movie.”
Her experiences on “Shopgirl,” in which none of the characters has their act together on romance, got Danes talking with acquaintances about their own relationships. One friend, a woman who has been married for 41 years, told Danes it was only within the last year or two that she had begun to really feel secure and honest in her marriage.
“In a way, that’s really reassuring. I’m not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it’s also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time?” Danes said, laughing.
“It’s not easy. Many, many, many songs have been written about it. We wouldn’t have anything to read if relationships were easy. There would be no art in the world if we actually got along.”
© 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Claire Danes’ so-called movie career
What would Jordan Catalano think of ‘Shopgirl’?
By Paige Newman
Movies Editor
MSNBC
Updated: 5:15 p.m. ET Oct. 18, 2005
Claire Danes’ most vivid role to date is that of Angela Chase, the awkward teenager from the short-lived TV series “My So-Called Life.” Though Danes was just 15 years old and the show ran a brief 19 episodes in 1995-1995, she made an indelible impression.
A dancer from the age of six, Danes was able to put her grace on the shelf and instead use her body, with a tilt of the head or a slight slump in her shoulders, to show Angela’s tentativeness and curiosity. Angela was one of the first television characters who seemed as uncomfortable with life as most actual teenagers. Hard to believe that on that show she was supposed to be the same age as those kids on “Laguna Beach.” Which one of those shows is supposed to be reality again?
Though she seems better (and in some cases, way too good) than every movie she stars in, it’s hard not to wonder how her fictional friends from “My So-Called Life” would view Danes’ movie roles. Which characters would they recognize as the girl they knew on “My So-Called Life?”
Danielle Chase, “Terminator 3”
Angela’s younger sister was never allowed in the room when anything interesting — like a good fight — was going on. She also had a serious crush on Brian Krakow, who just happened to harbor a little something for her older sister. For Halloween one year, Danielle actually dressed up as Angela, so it’s hard not to believe that on some level her sister was a hero for her. Maybe a bit like Kate Brewster in “Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines.”
“T3” is an absolute dog, but Danielle would be proud of the way her big sis doesn’t back down when kidnapped and thrown into the back of her own truck by Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Connor (Nick Stahl). She just kept kicking and screaming and refused to back down. Heck, she even said “Drop dead, you a—hole!” to the Terminator. The perfect hero for a little sis
Rickie Vasquez, “Stage Beauty”
As the gay best friend to Rayanne Graff and Angela, Ricky never pursued his crushes as openly as they did (this was after all, only the mid ’90s). Though he cheered Angela on in her relationship with Jordon Catalano, viewers always had the sense that he was envious that he couldn’t have what she did. Mr. Katimski pushed Rickie to find himself in drama club, much like Danes’ character, Maria, finds herself through acting in “Stage Beauty.”
In that suprisingly engrossing film, though Billy Crudup’s character is happy playing women’s roles in Shakespeare’s plays, his dresser (Danes) secretly wants her own chance. When Charles II finally changes British law to allow this, she takes to the stage herself. Crudup is crushed, just as Rickie must have been, to see Danes get to do everything he no longer feels allowed to do. With women playing the roles, there's no longer a need for men like Crudup to play the female parts. In this role, Danes bravely allows herself to look weak, as we learn that, without Crudup’s help, she isn’t the actress that he has been.
Patty Chase, “Polish Wedding”
For Angela’s mother Patty, Angela’s teen years were a never-ending rollercoaster. First the once-mild girl dyed her hair “crimson glow” and then she started hanging around the always-drinking Rayanne and her gay friend Rickie. Patty desperately wanted to bond with her daughter, but instead Angela almost constantly pushed her away.
But at least Angela never got into the kind of trouble that Danes’ Hala did in “Polish Wedding.” Sneaking out the window at night, Hala had an affair with a young policeman, got pregnant, and discovered he didn’t want to marry her. Sounds like Patty’s worst-case scenario to me. The movie itself — well, let’s just say, it’s less interesting than most of Patty’s lectures to Angela. But i’s fun to see Danes play someone so free and open — heck, she even smokes in this one.
Graham Chase, “Little Women”
One of the better TV fathers around (the man could cook!), Graham was dealing with so many of his own problems that he never seemed to view Angela in the dire way Patty did. Instead, like a lot of fathers, he had a daddy’s-little-girl view of his eldest child. The saintly Beth from “Little Women” would have suited Graham just fine.
Amy March was frivolous, Meg cared most about finding a good husband and Jo worked away on her writing career, but Beth was the March sister who stayed home. Too sickly to pursue her dreams, instead she became the family’s beacon of goodness. One of Danes’ better performances, her naturalness here stands in stark contrast to Winona Ryder’s rather mannered turn as Jo. When Beth breaks down after Mr. Laurence gives her his piano, viewers witness an actress expressing pure joy in a way that few can.
Sharon Cherski, “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday”
Sharon never quite got over how her former best friend dumped her, dyed her hair red, and started hanging out with Rickie and Rayanne. She missed the more innocent Angela, the one who hadn’t been as cynical and watchful. For Sharon, Angela had been someone she could giggle over boys with, but now, Angela seemed almost embarrassed by her friendship with Sharon.
Perhaps Rachel Lewis, Danes’ role in “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday” would have been a more appealing friend for Sharon. After all, Rachel didn’t even want to wear a skimpy bathing suit in that film, and was more comfortable watching her dad (Peter Gallagher in full eyebrow mode) and uncle (Bruce Altman) doing karaoke. Yes, there was drama, but it was her father who was at the center of it; Rachel’s character was one of the stabilizing forces in his life. She’s a girl who, during the film, marvels over her first open-mouthed kiss (with Freddie Prinze, Jr. no less, who’s sporting a very weird blond-and-brown hairdo here). The movie is a schmaltzy, maudlin mess, but Rachel does seem to be a perfect friend for Sharon.
Rayanne Graff, “Brokedown Palace”
Angela’s new best friend Rayanne drank, slept with a lot of guys and got into more trouble than most of those “Laguna Beach” chicks could dream of — plus she never would have tolerated their pettiness. She could be found most days, skipping class and holding court in the girls’ bathroom, where even Rickie would join in their chats. She was Virgil to Angela’s Dante, leading her through the depths of high-school hell.
Only fitting, then, that her dream for Angela would be an exotic trip to Bangkok with her best friend (Kate Beckinsale). Unfortunately, as with many Rayanne adventures, Danes’ trip to Bangkok didn’t quite go as planned — she got mixed up with a handsome stranger who planted a package of heroin on the girls without their knowledge. This movie is no “Midnight Express,” but as usual with Danes’ films, she’s the best thing in it. In her role as Alice, you never lose the sense of her strength — even when she winds up in jail. Let’s hope Rayanne, wherever she is today, managed to avoid Thai prison.
Brian Krakow, “Igby Goes Down”
For Brian, Angela was the girl he always longed for but could never really have. (Or could he? The show was cut short, we never found out.) Though Angela may not have seemed particularly cool to some people, to the geeky, bookish Brian she was almost unapproachable — somewhat like Sookie Sapperstein in “Igby Goes Down.”
Thankfully, Danes’ hasn’t played all that many cool chicks, but her Sookie was a perfect counterpart to Kieran Culkin’s Holden Caulfield-esque Igby. Sookie played hooky from Bennington and knew how to roll the perfect joint. And yet, she still found time to sleep with the slightly awkward and younger Igby. A fantasy come true for a guy like Krakow. This movie is almost a little too self-conscious for its own good, but it does have intriguing performances, plus a great soundtrack that features tunes from Badly Drawn Boy and Travis.
Jordan Catalano, “Shopgirl”
Angela may have dated Jordan Catalano, but she never really had him. He was the quintessential “I’m keeping myself open in case something better comes along” guy. Every woman has dated at least one of them — the kind of guy who doesn’t recognize a good thing when he has it because he’s too busy being cool. It’s not hard to believe that a guy like this could grow up to be the Steve Martin character in “Shopgirl,” who once again can’t quite see the wonderful person right in front of him.
Danes’ plays Mirabelle, a lonely woman who works at the glove counter in Saks Fifth Avenue. She is a woman who’s looking for love; looking for someone to hold onto and protect her — and at the same time she’s lost, unsure what she’s doing with her life. Steve Martin’s Ray Porter could be the person she’s looking for, the friend and lover that she so desperately needs. And yet, he can’t help but hold her at a distance. Though the movie can be a bit precious (particularly Martin’s needless voice-overs), Danes is utterly convincing and heartbreaking in the role of Mirabelle. Even if viewers don’t like the film as a whole, it’s almost impossible not to empathize with Danes who is able to show her desire and her loneliness in such a raw and real fashion. It’s certainly one of her best performances to date. Jordan, will you never learn?
Angela Chase, “William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet”
So how would the lovely Angela view herself? Maybe she’d see herself as the lost and lonely Mirabelle from “Shopgirl” or perhaps she’d need think she’d need a bit of rescuing, the way Kelly Riker does in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Rainmaker” (which features another heartbreaking performance by Danes). But first and foremost, beyond all the insecurities and awkwardness, Angela Chase was a romantic, so there’s only one role she’d truly see herself playing (if she would actually let herself admit it
Juliet from “William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet.”
Danes may not be a typical Hollywood beauty — she can look a bit wan and almost plain if she wants and she doesn’t have one of those plastic-surgery-enhanced Hollywood bodies — but when she plays a character expressing happiness, especially love, she has a way of transmitting an inner glow — a luminous quality that doesn’t just come from good lighting. Yes, this film is far from perfect — the way John Leguizamo screams his way through the entire movie may have you reaching for a bottle of Excedrin — yet Danes is flawless. She has the innocence and the purity of the perfect Juliet and she and Leonardo DiCaprio don’t just create sparks, they practically radiate. If Angela got to live out her romantic dreams, this is the way she’d do it. The girl is such a drama queen, that even dying in the final scenes would strike her as a highly appropriate thing to do.
Claire Danes’ so-called movie career
What would Jordan Catalano think of ‘Shopgirl’?
By Paige Newman
Movies Editor
MSNBC
Updated: 5:15 p.m. ET Oct. 18, 2005
Claire Danes’ most vivid role to date is that of Angela Chase, the awkward teenager from the short-lived TV series “My So-Called Life.” Though Danes was just 15 years old and the show ran a brief 19 episodes in 1995-1995, she made an indelible impression.
A dancer from the age of six, Danes was able to put her grace on the shelf and instead use her body, with a tilt of the head or a slight slump in her shoulders, to show Angela’s tentativeness and curiosity. Angela was one of the first television characters who seemed as uncomfortable with life as most actual teenagers. Hard to believe that on that show she was supposed to be the same age as those kids on “Laguna Beach.” Which one of those shows is supposed to be reality again?
Though she seems better (and in some cases, way too good) than every movie she stars in, it’s hard not to wonder how her fictional friends from “My So-Called Life” would view Danes’ movie roles. Which characters would they recognize as the girl they knew on “My So-Called Life?”
Danielle Chase, “Terminator 3”
Angela’s younger sister was never allowed in the room when anything interesting — like a good fight — was going on. She also had a serious crush on Brian Krakow, who just happened to harbor a little something for her older sister. For Halloween one year, Danielle actually dressed up as Angela, so it’s hard not to believe that on some level her sister was a hero for her. Maybe a bit like Kate Brewster in “Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines.”
“T3” is an absolute dog, but Danielle would be proud of the way her big sis doesn’t back down when kidnapped and thrown into the back of her own truck by Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Connor (Nick Stahl). She just kept kicking and screaming and refused to back down. Heck, she even said “Drop dead, you a—hole!” to the Terminator. The perfect hero for a little sis
Rickie Vasquez, “Stage Beauty”
As the gay best friend to Rayanne Graff and Angela, Ricky never pursued his crushes as openly as they did (this was after all, only the mid ’90s). Though he cheered Angela on in her relationship with Jordon Catalano, viewers always had the sense that he was envious that he couldn’t have what she did. Mr. Katimski pushed Rickie to find himself in drama club, much like Danes’ character, Maria, finds herself through acting in “Stage Beauty.”
In that suprisingly engrossing film, though Billy Crudup’s character is happy playing women’s roles in Shakespeare’s plays, his dresser (Danes) secretly wants her own chance. When Charles II finally changes British law to allow this, she takes to the stage herself. Crudup is crushed, just as Rickie must have been, to see Danes get to do everything he no longer feels allowed to do. With women playing the roles, there's no longer a need for men like Crudup to play the female parts. In this role, Danes bravely allows herself to look weak, as we learn that, without Crudup’s help, she isn’t the actress that he has been.
Patty Chase, “Polish Wedding”
For Angela’s mother Patty, Angela’s teen years were a never-ending rollercoaster. First the once-mild girl dyed her hair “crimson glow” and then she started hanging around the always-drinking Rayanne and her gay friend Rickie. Patty desperately wanted to bond with her daughter, but instead Angela almost constantly pushed her away.
But at least Angela never got into the kind of trouble that Danes’ Hala did in “Polish Wedding.” Sneaking out the window at night, Hala had an affair with a young policeman, got pregnant, and discovered he didn’t want to marry her. Sounds like Patty’s worst-case scenario to me. The movie itself — well, let’s just say, it’s less interesting than most of Patty’s lectures to Angela. But i’s fun to see Danes play someone so free and open — heck, she even smokes in this one.
Graham Chase, “Little Women”
One of the better TV fathers around (the man could cook!), Graham was dealing with so many of his own problems that he never seemed to view Angela in the dire way Patty did. Instead, like a lot of fathers, he had a daddy’s-little-girl view of his eldest child. The saintly Beth from “Little Women” would have suited Graham just fine.
Amy March was frivolous, Meg cared most about finding a good husband and Jo worked away on her writing career, but Beth was the March sister who stayed home. Too sickly to pursue her dreams, instead she became the family’s beacon of goodness. One of Danes’ better performances, her naturalness here stands in stark contrast to Winona Ryder’s rather mannered turn as Jo. When Beth breaks down after Mr. Laurence gives her his piano, viewers witness an actress expressing pure joy in a way that few can.
Sharon Cherski, “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday”
Sharon never quite got over how her former best friend dumped her, dyed her hair red, and started hanging out with Rickie and Rayanne. She missed the more innocent Angela, the one who hadn’t been as cynical and watchful. For Sharon, Angela had been someone she could giggle over boys with, but now, Angela seemed almost embarrassed by her friendship with Sharon.
Perhaps Rachel Lewis, Danes’ role in “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday” would have been a more appealing friend for Sharon. After all, Rachel didn’t even want to wear a skimpy bathing suit in that film, and was more comfortable watching her dad (Peter Gallagher in full eyebrow mode) and uncle (Bruce Altman) doing karaoke. Yes, there was drama, but it was her father who was at the center of it; Rachel’s character was one of the stabilizing forces in his life. She’s a girl who, during the film, marvels over her first open-mouthed kiss (with Freddie Prinze, Jr. no less, who’s sporting a very weird blond-and-brown hairdo here). The movie is a schmaltzy, maudlin mess, but Rachel does seem to be a perfect friend for Sharon.
Rayanne Graff, “Brokedown Palace”
Angela’s new best friend Rayanne drank, slept with a lot of guys and got into more trouble than most of those “Laguna Beach” chicks could dream of — plus she never would have tolerated their pettiness. She could be found most days, skipping class and holding court in the girls’ bathroom, where even Rickie would join in their chats. She was Virgil to Angela’s Dante, leading her through the depths of high-school hell.
Only fitting, then, that her dream for Angela would be an exotic trip to Bangkok with her best friend (Kate Beckinsale). Unfortunately, as with many Rayanne adventures, Danes’ trip to Bangkok didn’t quite go as planned — she got mixed up with a handsome stranger who planted a package of heroin on the girls without their knowledge. This movie is no “Midnight Express,” but as usual with Danes’ films, she’s the best thing in it. In her role as Alice, you never lose the sense of her strength — even when she winds up in jail. Let’s hope Rayanne, wherever she is today, managed to avoid Thai prison.
Brian Krakow, “Igby Goes Down”
For Brian, Angela was the girl he always longed for but could never really have. (Or could he? The show was cut short, we never found out.) Though Angela may not have seemed particularly cool to some people, to the geeky, bookish Brian she was almost unapproachable — somewhat like Sookie Sapperstein in “Igby Goes Down.”
Thankfully, Danes’ hasn’t played all that many cool chicks, but her Sookie was a perfect counterpart to Kieran Culkin’s Holden Caulfield-esque Igby. Sookie played hooky from Bennington and knew how to roll the perfect joint. And yet, she still found time to sleep with the slightly awkward and younger Igby. A fantasy come true for a guy like Krakow. This movie is almost a little too self-conscious for its own good, but it does have intriguing performances, plus a great soundtrack that features tunes from Badly Drawn Boy and Travis.
Jordan Catalano, “Shopgirl”
Angela may have dated Jordan Catalano, but she never really had him. He was the quintessential “I’m keeping myself open in case something better comes along” guy. Every woman has dated at least one of them — the kind of guy who doesn’t recognize a good thing when he has it because he’s too busy being cool. It’s not hard to believe that a guy like this could grow up to be the Steve Martin character in “Shopgirl,” who once again can’t quite see the wonderful person right in front of him.
Danes’ plays Mirabelle, a lonely woman who works at the glove counter in Saks Fifth Avenue. She is a woman who’s looking for love; looking for someone to hold onto and protect her — and at the same time she’s lost, unsure what she’s doing with her life. Steve Martin’s Ray Porter could be the person she’s looking for, the friend and lover that she so desperately needs. And yet, he can’t help but hold her at a distance. Though the movie can be a bit precious (particularly Martin’s needless voice-overs), Danes is utterly convincing and heartbreaking in the role of Mirabelle. Even if viewers don’t like the film as a whole, it’s almost impossible not to empathize with Danes who is able to show her desire and her loneliness in such a raw and real fashion. It’s certainly one of her best performances to date. Jordan, will you never learn?
Angela Chase, “William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet”
So how would the lovely Angela view herself? Maybe she’d see herself as the lost and lonely Mirabelle from “Shopgirl” or perhaps she’d need think she’d need a bit of rescuing, the way Kelly Riker does in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Rainmaker” (which features another heartbreaking performance by Danes). But first and foremost, beyond all the insecurities and awkwardness, Angela Chase was a romantic, so there’s only one role she’d truly see herself playing (if she would actually let herself admit it
Juliet from “William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet.” Danes may not be a typical Hollywood beauty — she can look a bit wan and almost plain if she wants and she doesn’t have one of those plastic-surgery-enhanced Hollywood bodies — but when she plays a character expressing happiness, especially love, she has a way of transmitting an inner glow — a luminous quality that doesn’t just come from good lighting. Yes, this film is far from perfect — the way John Leguizamo screams his way through the entire movie may have you reaching for a bottle of Excedrin — yet Danes is flawless. She has the innocence and the purity of the perfect Juliet and she and Leonardo DiCaprio don’t just create sparks, they practically radiate. If Angela got to live out her romantic dreams, this is the way she’d do it. The girl is such a drama queen, that even dying in the final scenes would strike her as a highly appropriate thing to do.
Here's a USA Today interview with Claire:
Claire Danes talks 'Shop'
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — Claire Danes is the sort of celebrity who, en route to a breakfast interview, calls to apologize profusely for being a few minutes late and promises she is just blocks away.
About that sex scene: Clare Danes' new film, Shopgirl, includes a love scene with much-older co-star Steve Martin.
By Carolyn Kaster, AP
She didn't oversleep. Danes had to walk her 7-month-old schnauzer/poodle mix, Ouija, who had a mind of his own about when he needed to be walked. (Related item: Clothes make the woman)
Her streaked blond hair still wet and her face devoid of makeup, Danes is casual in a gray sweater and black trousers. She's goofy and gracious, albeit guarded.
Danes chortles about the tabloid obsession with Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson's marriage, recounts her dog's behavioral turnaround after his stint at canine boot camp and says she's trying to get into Madame Bovary.
But she won't discuss her love life. Yes, she and Billy Crudup, 37, with whom she starred in last year's Stage Beauty, are still together. And things are going well.
"I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about," says Danes, 26, who now opts to keep it under wraps because otherwise "the people in my life are hurt."
She'd rather talk Shopgirl, which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles. Danes plays Mirabelle, an introverted artist who sells gloves at Saks Fifth Avenue.
Older bon vivant Ray (Steve Martin) sends Mirabelle gloves and a handwritten note to ask her out, while slacker Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman) picks her up in a laundromat. What's the furthest a man has gone to woo Danes?
"I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird." says Danes, who was previously involved with musician Ben Lee. "I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me."
As for her bare-some sex scene with Martin, 60? "People are alarmed by it, but it's so discreet."
Unlike Mirabelle, Danes, who started acting at 12 and made her mark as Angela Chase on the short-lived but much-loved series My So-Called Life, has never had a dead-end job. "But I certainly know what it feels like to feel lonely," she says. "I admire her resilience."
Danes had a lot of attention lavished on her at the beginning of her romance with the extremely private Crudup, who had parted ways with Mary-Louise Parker while she was pregnant with his son, William Atticus, now 1. How did Danes cope?
The scrutiny is ".008% of what's important and challenging," says Danes, who's rarely seen in public with Crudup.
Her life in Manhattan is ordinary, Danes says. She lives in a downtown loft and rides the subway every day. She goes to the refurbished Museum of Modern Art, shops at the NoLita boutique A Détacher, loves reading Lorrie Moore's Anagrams and eats out — a lot.
Paparazzi largely leave her alone. But when they do get her, "it's embarrassing, because I'm always wearing the wrong thing. I'm in my North Face jacket, my sweatpants and my huge, ugly gym shoes. But I'm not newsworthy right now, I'm relieved to say."
Claire Danes talks 'Shop'
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — Claire Danes is the sort of celebrity who, en route to a breakfast interview, calls to apologize profusely for being a few minutes late and promises she is just blocks away.
She didn't oversleep. Danes had to walk her 7-month-old schnauzer/poodle mix, Ouija, who had a mind of his own about when he needed to be walked. (Related item: Clothes make the woman)
Her streaked blond hair still wet and her face devoid of makeup, Danes is casual in a gray sweater and black trousers. She's goofy and gracious, albeit guarded.
Danes chortles about the tabloid obsession with Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson's marriage, recounts her dog's behavioral turnaround after his stint at canine boot camp and says she's trying to get into Madame Bovary.
But she won't discuss her love life. Yes, she and Billy Crudup, 37, with whom she starred in last year's Stage Beauty, are still together. And things are going well.
"I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about," says Danes, 26, who now opts to keep it under wraps because otherwise "the people in my life are hurt."
She'd rather talk Shopgirl, which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles. Danes plays Mirabelle, an introverted artist who sells gloves at Saks Fifth Avenue.
Older bon vivant Ray (Steve Martin) sends Mirabelle gloves and a handwritten note to ask her out, while slacker Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman) picks her up in a laundromat. What's the furthest a man has gone to woo Danes?
"I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird." says Danes, who was previously involved with musician Ben Lee. "I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me."
As for her bare-some sex scene with Martin, 60? "People are alarmed by it, but it's so discreet."
Unlike Mirabelle, Danes, who started acting at 12 and made her mark as Angela Chase on the short-lived but much-loved series My So-Called Life, has never had a dead-end job. "But I certainly know what it feels like to feel lonely," she says. "I admire her resilience."
Danes had a lot of attention lavished on her at the beginning of her romance with the extremely private Crudup, who had parted ways with Mary-Louise Parker while she was pregnant with his son, William Atticus, now 1. How did Danes cope?
The scrutiny is ".008% of what's important and challenging," says Danes, who's rarely seen in public with Crudup.
Her life in Manhattan is ordinary, Danes says. She lives in a downtown loft and rides the subway every day. She goes to the refurbished Museum of Modern Art, shops at the NoLita boutique A Détacher, loves reading Lorrie Moore's Anagrams and eats out — a lot.
Paparazzi largely leave her alone. But when they do get her, "it's embarrassing, because I'm always wearing the wrong thing. I'm in my North Face jacket, my sweatpants and my huge, ugly gym shoes. But I'm not newsworthy right now, I'm relieved to say."
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a little off topic- but is shopgirl any good?- i have tickets for it at the london film festival but not sure whether to go...
Here are some reviews:travis_nw8 said:
http://www.nynewsday.com/entertainment/ny-etsecw4476390oct21,0,5808644.story?coll=nyc-ent-topheadlines-left
http://www.heraldnewsdaily.com/stories/news-0088055.html
http://www.cinematical.com/2005/10/19/review-shopgirl/
Shopgirl
Like so many before her, Mirabelle Buttersfield (Claire Danes) came to Los Angeles a small-town girl with big-city dreams, only to wind up just another lonely cog in the machine – selling gloves from an isolated corner counter at Beverly Hills’ Saks Fifth Avenue. Then, suddenly, fate throws her an unexpected curve – not one, but two suitors, who could not be more different: Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman), a lovably eccentric slacker, and Ray (Steve Martin), a charming and very wealthy middle-aged logician. But traditional Hollywood love triangulation this is not, for Mirabelle’s emotional odyssey is less about the awkward mechanics of romance than the ways in which human beings fall prey to the emotional arrhythmia of an immense, disconnected urban jungle.
For well over a decade now, Steve Martin has been increasingly exploring his inner poet, all but shedding any remaining vestiges of the erstwhile wild and crazy guy. But with this magical, poignant gem, he verges on the Chaplinesque – that rare nexus where tears and laughter intersect. It’s not perfect – adapting from his own acclaimed novella, Martin sometimes seems to be cutting corners to make the one form fit into the other – but, under the sensitive, artful direction of Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie), Martin’s penetrating observations on the agony and ecstasy of life, love, and broken dreams coalesce into a triumphant, heartfelt whole. (Wade Major) (Pacific ArcLight, Laemmle’s Monica)
