Movie Star Blog

I think Natalie Portman created a great character in Closer, but not everyone agrees.

It’s become apparent that Natalie Portman, a once-promising young starlet with both beauty and some measure of poise and self-possession, has gone completely over to the Dark Side. I am referring not only to her lewd behavior in Mike Nichols’ Closer, or to her weird John Kerry T-shirts, but to the sort of political hysteria both George Lucas and now the Wachowski brothers have enabled her to mouth.