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Links for the Day: Deconstructing #AngelinaJolie, @BilgeEbiri on #JamesGray,#TiananmenSquare at 25, & More http://t.co/DpkmGIz4hU
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1. "Deconstructing Angelina Jolie." The mystery, mayhem that make Angelina Jolie one of our few remaining true movie stars. Posted July 28th, 2010, 10:07 AM by Charles Taylor
"When you listen to the women who don’t like Angelina Jolie, it’s impossible not to hear something in their voices that tells you they consider her a threat to all those nice, sensitive girls. But we'd already seen evidence of that on screen. No action heroine of Jolie's will ever commit a killing as lethal and thorough as the one Jolie administered to Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted. Cast in a supporting role in Ryder's pet project—The Bell Jar as princess fantasy—Jolie, as the bad girl, without breaking a sweat, stomped all over the picture's moon-eyed, poetic suffering leading lady. It was akin to hearing the Sex Pistols in 1977 and believing, for a moment, that you'd never have to listen to the Eagles again."
