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PEOPLE & ARTSThursday 28 December 2017
Review: Annette Bening plays
Gloria Grahame in ‘Film Stars’
This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Annette By JAKE COYLE bombshell with a soft, We are instead introduced
Bening in a scene from “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.” AP Film Writer sweet voice. Grahame, to a vivacious woman still
Annette Bening gives Glo- a femme fatale of feline passionate for acting and
Associated Press ria Grahame a nobility grace, could slip through a for love, albeit a little delu-
rarely shown to faded Hol- film, as the critic Judith Wil- sional about her age. (She
lywood actresses in “Film liamson wrote, “like a drop pines to play Juliet for the
Stars Don’t Die in Liver- of loose mercury.” Royal Shakespeare Com-
pool,” a tender if generic She slinked through classic pany.) From the doorway
portrait of aged glamour. noirs like “In Lonely Place,” of her Liverpool apartment,
Based on the 1986 memoir ‘’Crossfire” and “The Big she asks a neighbor, Turner
by Peter Turner, Paul Mc- Heat,” played the flirta- (Jamie Bell) to dance disco
Guigan’s film joins the du- tious girl rescued by Jimmy with her. Inspired by “Sat-
bious movie genre about Stewart in “It’s a Wonder- urday Night Fever,” they
close encounters with Hol- ful Life” and won an Os- groove to “Boogie Oogie
lywood royalty. In films like car for her performance Oogie.”
“My Week With Marilyn” as Dick Powell’s wife in the Turner, a wannabe actor
(2011) and “Me and Orson Hollywood tale “The Bad himself, is drawn into her
Welles” (2008) an outsider is and the Beautiful.” She obit not because of her
unexpectedly thrust into a was often the troubled tart fame but because she’s still
short-lived intimacy with a or the deadly seductress, simply intoxicating. And,
star. The self-aggrandized but Graham’s personal life admittedly, there are few
“me” of those titles promise turned her into a real-life clues besides her lighter in-
us a window into an unat- pariah. Her fourth, initially scribed by Humphrey Bog-
tainable, larger-than-life secret marriage was to her art. What would an Oscar
personality as if to say: No former stepson, the son of winner be doing in a Liv-
one knew (fill-in-the-blank) her third husband, the film- erpool production of “The
like me. maker Nicholas Ray. He Glass Menagerie”? Soon,
But while proximity to Mon- was 13 when their relation- they’re attached at the
roe or Welles has wide ca- ship began. hip, and jetting to New York
chet, Grahame is less of a None of that, though, is the and Los Angeles.
household name and the subject of “Film Stars Don’t With some clever transi-
close-up offered by “Film Die in Liverpool.” Grahame tions, McGuigan (“Lucky
Stars Don’t Die in Liver- is here in her final years, in Number Slevin) frames their
pool” is far removed from exile, acting in regional the- romance through snippets
her heyday. Grahame was, ater while privately battling of memory, looking back
simply, one of the great breast cancer. It’s well into from Grahame’s final days
black-and-white actresses: the film before Grahame’s in 1981, two years after
the “other” 1950s blonde troubled past is alluded to. meeting Turner. q
FX orders dance musical series
‘Pose,’ set in ‘80s New York
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The FX In this Nov. 16, 2017, file photo, actress Kate Mara attends the
channel says it’s ordered
a scripted dance musical 2017 Guggenheim International Gala, hosted by Dior, at the
series starring Evan Peters,
Kate Mara and James Van Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Der Beek.
FX said Wednesday that Associated Press
the series, titled “Pose,” will
include what it called an and respect. The show is scheduled to
unprecedented number
of LGBTQ and transgender FX says the first season of start production in Febru-
actors in ongoing roles.
The channel says the show “Pose” will include eight ary and debut in summer
is set in New York City in
the 1980s, amid the “luxury episodes. 2018.q
Trump-era universe” and
other social and literary
circles.
Series co-creator Ryan
Murphy, of “Glee” and
“American Horror Story”
fame, described the show
as an exploration of what
he called the “universal
quest” for identity, family
