Nicole Kidman

ISBN-13: 9781400077816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str.

David Thomson

Opis

An original portrait of Nicole Kidman reflects on what it means to be an actress today while chronicling her life on- and offscreen, describing how she has changed throughout her career, examining her personal decisions about her life, and analyzing what celebrity means in the life of an actress.

Recenzje

Compulsively readable . . . an entertaining romp through [Nicole Kidman s] life and career that s also a smart commentary on celeb culture.
--Christopher Kelly, The Star-Telegram

Illuminating . . . part astute analysis of our relationship to the film image and our cultural fixation on celebrity and part insightful film criticism . . . [a] starry-eyed love letter.
--Tara Ison, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Thomson is probably the single most gifted film writer alive . . . an extraordinarily knowing meditation on movies as purveyors of dreams and desires
--Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News

Rewrites the celebrity biography into a savvy exploration of myth-making . . . Dangerously smart, Thomson never lectures. He throws little gems and thought-provoking insights in the midst of the liveliest conversation. A passionate storyteller, he peppers his analyses with sassy anecdotes . . . and biting remarks on politics, celebrity culture and their commodification of human dramas. Bold, provocative, irrepressibly funny . . . will delight those who enjoy a book that has guts and brains.
--Cécile Alduy, San Francisco Chronicle

Film critic David Thomson has a crush on Kidman and he doesn t care who knows . . . a shrewd book about the nature of screen acting, fantasy and stardom.
--Newsday

O autorze

John Heilpern is the author of the classic book about theater Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa and of How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?, a collection of his theater essays and reviews. Born in England and educated at Oxford, his interviews for The Observer (London) received a British Press Award. In 1980 he moved to New York, where he became a weekly columnist for The Times of London. An adjunct professor of drama at Columbia University, he is drama critic for the New York Observer.