While the Emmys drew mixed reviews, the film festivals closed to strong applause this week, not only for their movies (we’d forgotten some) but for their star turnout (forgot a few of them, too).Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Taylor Swift and Julianne Moore were out there giving interviews and courting critics as in years gone by.
Some had become strangers due to a mix of Covid-caused delays and their own rigid rules of self-protection.Movie stars once made three or four films a year and were constantly before us, pitching their wares.
I once congratulated Tom Hanks three times in a week and the Damon-Affleck team seemed equally ubiquitous. Now even Jennifer Lawrence wants the spotlight again and Harrison Ford has also abandoned invisibility.Of course, the presence of stars at premieres also guarantees some flying shrapnel on social media.
At the Venice premiere of Don’t Worry Darling, did Florence Pugh, the co-star, ever exchange even a darting glance at her director Olivia Wilde?
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