The Artist’s Wife review – an indie drama lacking inspiration
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Acting legends Leno Olin and Bruce Dern star in a film about the pressures of supporting greatness. Olin plays Claire Smythson, the wife of celebrated painter Richard (Dern). Living comfortably in their old age, Claire keeps their lives running while Richard is allowed to surround himself with painting and teaching. When he begins to show signs of dementia, however, Claire attempts to reconnect with the family he pushed away, and tries to rediscover her own identity.
A good set up and prestige cast should be a strong indicator of success, but from beginning to end Tom Dolby’s film feels a bit lost. Claire spends much of her time cleaning up the mess her husband leaves behind, but there’s little glimpsing inside her own head. A good comparison would be Glenn Close’s The Wife, which wrapped an entire film around her slow building frustration. Here, The Artist’s Wife seems to be as s
100 Baby Names That Dominated the 1970s
By Joni Sweet, Stacker News
AND Joseph Bien-Kahn, Stacker News
On 3/4/21 at 8:00 PM EST
Think about the last time you met a Pamela, a Shannon, or someone who introduced themselves as Shad. Were they between 40 and 50 years old? That s no coincidence. While these names may have fallen out of the mainstream for newborns, they were some of the most popular names in the 1970s. You couldn t scroll through a homeroom attendance sheet at a school without coming across at least a few of these names.
Names can tell the story of a generation. To learn more about the culture of the 1970s, Stacker took a look at data from the Social Security Administration Baby Names Database from 2019 to uncover the decade s top 50 names for boys and girls. Each name s current rank is also included to determine whether it s stayed trendy or has gone the way of bell-bottoms.
Stalag 17 in 1953, but my favorite William Holden film is a toss-up between
Sunset Boulevard and
The Bridge on the River Kwai. My wife Gigi’s favorites are a bit more on the romantic side:
Sabrina and
Picnic. Of course, there is
Network, which is as contemporary today as when it was first released in 1976. All in all, to say the beloved actor had a magnificent career is quite an understatement.
When I photographed Holden with his partner, actress Stephanie Powers, at home near Los Angeles, they were very much in love. They were more interested in talking about their work in Africa for the conservation of endangered wildlife than in talking about the movies.
Melissa Gilbert has met and worked with some acting legends through the years. One of those legends shared story after wild story with the 'Little House on the Prairie' actor between Bloody Marys.
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