Cate Blanchett, Carol, Kyle Chandler

Cate Blanchett poses in the press room after winning best actress Oscar for her turn in Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine' during the 86th Academy Awards on March 2nd, 2014 in Hollywood.

Actresses Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara attend the 29th Santa Barbara International Film Festival outstanding performer of the year award on February 1, 2014

Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and Sarah Paulson are lesbians —at least in the upcoming film version of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt. Blanchett will play a married woman who falls for a younger female department store staffer, while Paulson plays her ex-lover. Todd Haynes directs Highsmith’s work, which was written during the heyday of lesbian pulp novels but stood out as it didn’t have a tragic ending. The producers have chosen to name the film after the book’s original title, which was Carol. The trio are joined by The Wolf of Wall Street's Kyle Chandler and The Office's Jake Lacy. Source: www.frontiersla.com

"The Price of Salt" (sometimes published under the title Carol) is a romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author – known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, "Strangers on a Train" – became notorious due to the story's lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in gay fiction. "I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952. Soon to be a new film, The Price of Salt tells the riveting story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce.

"And they were silent again. Carol drove faster, changing her lane to pass cars, as if they had a destination. Therese set herself to say something, anything at all, by the time they reached the George Washington Bridge. Suddenly it occurred to her that if Carol and her husband were divorcing, Carol had been downtown to see a lawyer today. The district there was full of law offices. And something had gone wrong. Why were they divorcing? Because Harge was having an affair with the woman called Cynthia? Therese was cold. 'Is Harge still in love with you?' Carol looked down at her lap, impatiently, and perhaps she was shocked at her bluntness, Therese thought, but when Carol spoke, her voice was the same as before, 'Even I don't know. In a way, he's the same emotionally as he's always been. It's just that now I can see how he really is. He said I was the first woman he'd ever been in love with. He's never been interested in anyone else, it's true. Maybe he'd be more human if he were. That I could understand and forgive'."

Therese struggles to hide her infatuation even as Carol—teasing, ironic, hard-drinking—flirts with her fairly outrageously. Both Richard-the-dopey-boyfriend (now badgering Therese to marry him) and Harge, Carol's oafish husband, grow suspicious of their intimacy. In the novel's crucial sequence, the two women embark, Thelma-and-Louise-style, on a headlong cross-country car chase pursued by the private detective that Harge has set on their trail. Carol not only fails to commit suicide, she soon recovers her Stanwyckian aplomb and moves into a Manhattan apartment. Therese, learning that some of her set designs have been accepted by a famous theater director, is suddenly confident enough to quit being an IYSYG and finds herself flirting, knowingly enough, with a beautiful movie actress at a Manhattan cocktail party. All the more satisfactory, then, her final realization: the beautiful movie star is a bore, Carol still the One. ("It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.") When last seen, Therese has just tracked Carol down in the "Elysée bar," and, dizzy with joy, walks resolutely toward her. Source: www.slate.com

Kyle Chandler Tells The Story Of The Army-Navy Game Of 1963: The classic gridiron rivalry was postponed as a nation mourned. But JFK's widow, Jacqueline, wanted the game to go on. President John F. Kennedy was eager to attend the November 30th Army-Navy Game in 1963. The president was assassinated on November 22nd and the game was postponed. Friday Night Lights’ Kyle Chandler (Coach Taylor) narrates Sports Illustrated’s moving story of the game the almost didn’t happened. Source: nation.time.com

[Leo] thinks he’s acting cool and clever, but in reality, he’s just boring. It’s no coincidence that the only times the film is the least bit compelling are when DiCaprio is forced to shut up, first by Matthew McConaughey’s hilarious monologue in Act I, and then about two hours later when a dogged FBI agent - superbly played by Kyle Chandler - gets the better of Belfort while confronting the latter on the deck of his 700-foot yacht.

The remaining 165 minutes are filled with scene after scene of Belfort getting high, bedding hookers, fighting with his bimbo second wife, Naomi (an overmatched Margot Robbie, playing exactly the same role Jennifer Lawrence has in “American Hustle,” but to much less effect), and giving dull motivational speeches aimed at keeping the troops pumped up as the feds close in. Source: www.doverpost.com


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