Articles Tagged “Stanley Tucci”
Trailer for Burlesque
Well this has got gay, gay, GAY written all over it. Christina Aguilera leads the upcoming Burlesque as a talent-in-plain-sight who just wants to perform; Cher plays the momma of the venue who gives Ali (Aguilera’s character) her shot at stardom; and Stanley Tucci watches on with a queen-y stare and bitchy swagger like he did in Devil Wears Prada. (As an aside, I feel like Tucci is pioneering, or maybe just furthering, a kind of the “magical homo” ala the magical negro.) Throw in theater-queen Alan Cumming and eye-candy Cam Gigandet and you have the musical event of November. Start mixing the cosmos!
Julie & Julia
If there’s a secret ingredient, you can bet it’s butter. Butter makes everything better. And there is absolutely no substitute for it in cooking. Using something like I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter is a joke and an insult to cooks everywhere. So the fact that Nora Ephron’s latest concoction, Julie & Julia, doesn’t come out of the oven just right makes one wonder if the director didn’t somehow substitute oleo for the real deal.
Julie & Julia is based on two true stories, one following Julia Child’s rise to culinary magician and Julie Powell’s magical transformation, via the kitchen, from low-level bureaucrat to published writer. Rather than complement each other like fish and chips, the two stories are like pairing Kobe beef with a side of McDonald’s french fries.
