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Nicole Kidman

"From the film historian and critic David Thomson, a book that reinvents the star biography in a portrait of Nicole Kidman - and what it means to be a top actress today. At once life story, love letter, and critical analysis, this is not merely a book about who Kidman is but about what she is - in our culture and in our minds, on- and offscreen." "Here are the details of an actress's life: her performances in To Die For, The Portrait of a Lady, Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge!, The Hours, and Birth, among other films; her high-visibility marriage to Tom Cruise; her intense working relationship with Stanley Kubrick and her collaborations with Anthony Minghella and Baz Luhrmann; her work with Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Renee Zellweger, and John Malkovich; her decisions concerning nudity, endorsements, and publicity." "And here are Thomson's considerations of what celebrity means in the life of an actress like Kidman; of how the screen becomes both barrier and open sesame for her and for her audience; of what is required today of an actress of Kidman's stature if she is to remain vital to the industry and to the audiences who made her a prime celebrity."--BOOK JACKET
eBook, English, 2006
Bloomsbury, London, 2006
Biographies
1 online resource (311 pages : illustrations)
9780307488794, 0307488799
1194905190
Strangers
Just like us: not like us
Australian
Growing up
Dead Calm
Tom
Introducing Mrs. Preston
Not to be missed
Public property, private lives
Malice
To Die For
The Portrait of a Lady
The Peacemaker
Eyes Wide Shut
The Blue Room
Birthday Girl
'What are you looking at?'
Rouge
Rouge II
Separation
Divorce
The Others
The Hours
Dogville
Cold Mountain
The Human Stain
Birth
Being interviewed
100 Donne Piu Belle
Scent of a woman?
Clothes and costume
The Interpreter
Gypsy
My Belle de Jour
That icy look?
Bewitched
Dangerous age
Postscript
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