These are a couple of photos from Daniel Radcliffe’s cover shoot in the new issue of Dazed & Confused magazine. Even though I’m not a huge fan of whatever is going on in these photos, I like that Daniel isn’t on the cover of Details in a wet shirt, posing with a muscle car. Although… if Dan did do that, it would be awesome and very campy. I like that he’s artsy and interesting and game for doing weird photo shoots. Anyway, in case anyone was still ringing the “DanRad is gay” bell, he’s not. He’s just BFFs with every gay man and woman out there, and at the end of the day, he just wants to end up in bed with some lithe, hot female Broadway dancer. Sigh… I wish I was a lithe Broadway dancer RIGHT NOW.

Daniel Radcliffe has vowed to remain single during his stint on Broadway next year – but admits he will be tempted by the show’s sexy dancers.

The 21 year old is preparing for an upcoming role in musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and insists he won’t be looking for a girlfriend while living in New York City.

He tells Dazed & Confused magazine, “I’ve been in relationships from the age of 14 and now I’m single. I said to a friend the other day, ‘Dude, I’m doing a show with dancers. I’ve got to be single.’”

“He was like, ‘Don’t sleep with anyone in your own show. That’s a mistake.’ It’s good advice. But I’m not sure I’ll stick to it.”

[From The Toronto Sun]

Be on the lookout, Broadway dancers! DanRad is single and ready to mingle. He’s so f-cking cute. I know he sounds like a poon-hound in this interview, but I get the feeling he treats his girlfriends like gold and is probably pretty romantic and sweet. That being said, I would LOVE to have a one night stand with him. My guess? He’s probably such a little flirt, and I bet he totally surprises you in bed.

Dazed & Confused photos courtesy of SnitchSeeker.

Here is Scarlett Johansson at the opening night of her Broadway debut, A View from the Bridge. Sidenote: I keep wanting to type “A View to a Kill” which is that awesome Roger Moore-James Bond movie with Christopher Walken as the bad guy. Anyhoodle, ScarJo looks cute, right? Although her styling can be hit or miss, I can appreciate how hard it is for her to cover up her puppies and look classy. The dress seems very old-lady-ish, but on ScarJo it just looks vintage and cute. I like her hair a lot too – but the necklace should go.

Anyway, it seems that ScarJo is a big hit on a Broadway! I haven’t really investigated all of the reviews or anything, but from what little I’ve read, everyone seems to think ScarJo is awesome. Ben Brantley of the New York Times (the biggest bitch out there) even noted that where other famous actresses, like Julia Roberts, Keira Knightley and Katie Holmes “create their own discomfort zones onstage, defined by the mixed expectations of fans and skeptics,” ScarJo “melts into her character so thoroughly that her nimbus of celebrity disappears.” High praise!

What’s extraordinary about Gregory Mosher’s beautifully observed production of “A View From the Bridge” is how ordinary most of it feels. Very little in this revival of Arthur Miller’s kitchen-sink drama with knives, which opened Sunday night at the Cort Theater, calls loudly for our consideration. Voices are often kept to a just audible murmur, and the Hollywood sheen of the show’s big-name stars, Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson, has been dimmed to a matte finish.

Watching the daily rituals of the small family in mid-1950s Red Hook, Brooklyn, made up of the characters so exquisitely played by Mr. Schreiber, Ms. Johansson and Jessica Hecht, feels like spying across the alley on neighbors who would normally be invisible to you. Yet there’s no question of not paying them the attention that Miller demands.

Looking closely, you notice hairline fissures of unease. What has been cozy becomes, by degrees, claustrophobic, and even if you don’t know the play’s outcome, you’re apt to discover a knot in your stomach. A part of you feels that you should stand up and yell, to defuse tension and deflect disaster, though, as one character notes retrospectively, “nothing at all had really happened.”

Mr. Schreiber is such a complete actor that he has often thrown productions into imbalance, highlighting the inadequacy of the performances around him. That is not a problem here. That the excellent stage veteran Ms. Hecht holds her own with Mr. Schreiber is no surprise. That Ms. Johansson does — with seeming effortlessness — is.

In recent years Broadway’s stages have been littered with dim performances from bright screen stars, including Julia Roberts and Katie Holmes. Film actresses as famous as Ms. Johansson tend to create their own discomfort zones onstage, defined by the mixed expectations of fans and skeptics. I was definitely aware of that zone when I saw Keira Knightley in “The Misanthrope” in London recently.

By comparison, Ms. Johansson melts into her character so thoroughly that her nimbus of celebrity disappears. Her Catherine is a girl on the cusp of womanhood, feeling her way down familiar paths that have suddenly been shrouded in unfamiliar shadows.

[From The New York Times]

Good for Scarlett. Does this mean that ScarJo will end up a fixture of the Broadway stages? Who knows? I don’t know what’s going on with her lately. Sometimes I think she’s totally over being a sex symbol and she wants to be seen as a “serious actress”. Other times she seems like she enjoys the Hollywood game, and she plays up her sexy side and her connections. It’s anybody’s guess at this point.

Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson at the opening night on January 24, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie decided to treat their four oldest kids to a Broadway matinee on Sunday. They went to see Mary Poppins, which I hope the kids enjoyed. Personally, Poppins is one of my least favorite musicals or children’s films, although I’ll watch Julie Andrews in anything. I always thought the Jolie-Pitt clan would be more partial to The Sound of Music, but whatever. That was just my theory!

So, anyway, I guess this means that Angelina and Brad and the kids are still in New York, so Angelina still might have a few days more of Salt reshoots, which will be some more great photos. I know it must drive Brad and Angelina crazy, but I love when they’re in New York – there are always more photos of them when they’re staying in New York, probably because the paparazzi are more wily, perhaps?

Pax, Maddox, Shiloh and Zahara all got to go out with their mom and dad in what is turning out to be one of the coldest early winters the East Coast has ever had in my lifetime. Shiloh looks totally over it. And the Huffington Post is identifying Princess Zahara as six years old, but she’ll be turning five years old on January 8 – so happy early birthday to her! Such a big girl! This matinee could be an early birthday present. PopEater says that the theatre’s security had advance knowledge of their appearance, and the security “ushered” them into the performance. There’s also video of the whole thing at PopEater!

Angelina, Brad, Shiloh, Zahara and Pax are all photographed leaving the matinee in New York on January 3, 2010. Credit: Pacific Coast News and WENN.

Catherine Zeta-Jones made her Broadway debut last night in A Little Night Music, and these are photos from both the curtain call (white gown) and the red carpet (blue gown). I think Catherine looks gorgeous here. There has always been gossip about Catherine, especially in Britain, that she maybe shaved several years off of her official age. There’s also been gossip about some very high-quality plastic surgery. Personally, if she’s gotten anything done, it’s very, very good, because I think she’s looks totally naturally beautiful.

Reviewers were pretty much in agreement about Catherine’s beauty, but some criticized her performance. The Daily Mail, of course, compiled some of the greatest hits of the criticism:

In recent months, Catherine Zeta-Jones has been criticized for dressing years beyond her age. But last night she was every inch the glamorous star as she attended the opening night of her new Broadway show in New York. Dressed in a floor-length navy gown, with plunging neckline, the actress oozed sophistication.

Catherine, 40, kept the accessories simple but stunning with diamond and pearl drop earrings, and an understated slick of lipstick. But while her glamorous looks won her rave reviews in A Little Light Music, and her singing voice was praised, Catherine’s acting was criticised by some.

The Guardian’s Emma Brockes said: ‘While [she] can act and sing, she can’t do both at once in this production – at least not in one take.’

While the AP’s Michael Kuchwara wrote: ‘Zeta-Jones has a throaty, sensuous voice which she uses to good, flirty effect…. She is much better in the musical’s quieter scenes and shines in Act 2 during her rendition of the show’s best-known song, “Send in the Clowns,” a touching moment of grown-up introspection.’

Ben Brantley of The New York Times declared: ‘In addition to being drop-dead gorgeous… Ms Zeta-Jones brings a decent voice, a supple dancer’s body and a vulpine self-possession to her first appearance on Broadway.’

Catherine and husband Michael Douglas have temporarily relocated to the Big Apple while she stars in the play.

The musical, which opened last night, is fast becoming one of the hottest tickets on Broadway, with tickets selling for $300 on eBay. She plays Swedish actress Desirée Armfeldt alongside Angela Lansbury as her mother Madame Armfeldt in the Trevor Nunn revival of the 1973 play.

Catherine began her career on the stage, before finding fame in the TV series The Darling Buds Of May. She told the Evening Standard after last night’s show: ‘I can’t believe it’s taken me 20 years to actually do this. It’s quite shocking because I love the camaraderie and I just love the theatre life. It was just like going back home to a family.’

Asked when she would be performing in front of British theatregoers again, she said: ‘Now it’s back in my blood and I’m back on the boards, it may be sooner than they want it to be.’

Catherine said there were similarities between her own life and that of Desiree, a veteran actress reunited with an ex-lover. She said: ‘I have lived a bit of the life of a gypsy the way that Desiree has. I’ve found the love of life in my husband – I’m not searching for that at this particular point in my life.’

The production means Catherine and her family will spend the next few months living in the New York instead of their usual Bermuda home.

As well as marking her Broadway debut, Catherine will also be promoting her new film The Rebound, which is scheduled for release in April. The romantic comedy stars the actress as a single mother who falls for her children’s babysitter soon after her divorce.

[From The Daily Mail]

I love the while-cream gown that she wears for the play. It’s breathtakingly beautiful, and just seeing pictures of the gown made my mind wander. Hmm… God, I love costume pr0n. I just had a nice little daydream about going back in time to the days when women really dressed like this. I think I would have done well in the corset-wearing past, I really do.

Catherine Zeta-Jones on the red carpet for ‘A Little Night Music’ and at the curtain call, in New York on December 13, 2009. Credit: WENN.

Last night was Ashlee Simpson’s big Broadway debut in Chicago. You couldn’t pay me to sit through it, but Ashlee seems to be getting average to solid reviews, and she seems to have bounced back from being publicly and rudely dumped off of Melrose Place. People were also noting how thin Ashlee looked on stage, and in life. Especially compared to sister Jessica, who showed up for her sister’s big debut. Jessica wore a cute little sequined mini-dress that showed off her epic curves – so, yeah, comparisons were made, but I won’t get into that. I think they both look fine. Twitch… okay, okay, Ashlee should eat a sandwich. That’s all I’ve got.

Ashlee Simpson will be doing Chicago for a 10-week run that ends February 7, 2010. Jessica praised her sister on Twitter, writing “Roxie was all Heart! Watching her up on that grandiose stage made me the proudest sister in the world. I love ya honey, I love ya!”

Monday night’s performance of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre in NYC might have marked Ashlee Simpson’s Broadway debut, but it wasn’t the former Melrose Place star who was overwhelmed by anxiety — it was her big sister Jessica!

Before the curtain rose last night, Jessica admitted to her mom Tina — who sat between Jess and her dad, Joe — that she was a bag of nerves.

“She kept turning to her mom and saying she had butterflies,” one onlooker at the theater tells OK!. “It was very cute. She must have said it five times after she took her seat.”

And it looks like those butterflies might have been genetic, as Tina was overheard admitting to a friend sitting nearby that, “We’re both going to cry… We brought Kleenex.”

With only moments to go before the show, Jess even sent a frantic text to a friend saying, “She’s about to go on!!!!!! Pray!!!!!!”

Jess also sent a text over to Ashlee’s husband Pete Wentz, who was only a few seats away, presumably to offer last-minute moral support to the Fall Out Boy bassist.

According to the witness, when Ashlee took the stage as the wily Roxie Hart — a role she’d already portrayed onstage in London — Jessica gripped her mom’s arm.

At the intermission, Tina quickly left her seat, saying, “She asked me to go backstage — I always do.”

Meanwhile Jessica was beaming over Ashley’s big moment playing a part made famous on the silver screen by Renee Zellweger. “I love that she’s her own Roxie — she’s done it her own way.”

And when Pete came over to gush about Ashley, he revealed his own tactics for beating the nerves.

“I’m a little drunk,” he confessed, leaning in very close to Jessica. When she asked him if he was still nervous, Pete replied, “No. I just need to pee.”

Although it was her little sis’ evening, Jess did take a moment to reflect on other matters — those toned dancers!

“Doesn’t this show make you want to work out?,” Jessica asked a friend. “Watching those girls, I’m like, ‘I need to get in shape.’”

Meanwhile, she said that Ashlee looks “so skinny” on the stage.

When the final curtain came down and the Simpson family had finally finished their standing ovation, Jessica could no longer contain her emotions.

“I’m always so proud of my sister,” a weeping Jess confessed to OK!. “I think she frickin’ nailed it!”

Tina Simpson put her hand on Jessica’s arm and said: “She always cries!”

Now where are those Kleenex?!

[From OK! Magazine]

Aw, Jessica is so cute. But you notice that Jessica kind of made Ashlee’s night about her, right? Jessica and Ashlee’s relationship is so complicated – but I guess that’s what makes them sisters. It was cool of Jessica to show up to support her sister, especially after the lashing Ashlee took in the press after being fired from Melrose Place. Now, let’s hope that Jessica can convince her sister to stop wearing that God-awful black wig. That thing is hideous.

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz at the curtain call for her Broadway debut in the musical ‘Chicago’ at the Ambassador Theatre in New York on November 30. Pete Wentz, Jessica & Ashlee Simpson on the red carpet for the ‘Chicago’ after party. Credit: WENN.

These are photos from last night’s Broadway Extravaganza event, which is Rosie O’Donnell’s charity for Broadway. The blond teenage boy is her son Parker! He’s all grown up. He’s a cutie, too. Chelsea is the little one making a “I hate you all” face, which she probably gets from Rosie. I’m so glad to see Parker, though. He really is growing up well.

Anyway, in all of the randomness and over-the-top tabloid stories coming out about Rosie O’Donnell and Kelli Carpenter’s split (two years ago), one salient detail had slipped my mind: Rosie is single now. Oh, God. She’s back on the market! When People Magazine cornered Rosie at her Broadway Extravaganza event, Rosie admitted that being single again sucked big time.

Living single is less than rosy for Rosie O’Donnell.

“I’m not [enjoying the single life],” O’Donnell told PEOPLE Monday at Rosie’s Broadway Extravaganza annual gala. “But on we grow, so to speak.”

Earlier this month, O’Donnell revealed on her SIRIUS Satellite radio show that her longtime partner Kelli Carpenter had moved out two years ago.

Accompanied at the gala by her son Parker, 15, the former View co-host side -stepped other questions regarding her personal life but says that through everything, her four kids are doing “very well.”

Her friend Judy Gold says O’Donnell waited two years to let the public know of the split because of her children. “She has the kids,” said Gold. “I think she’s entitled to her private life and that’s what it is, private.”

Although O’Donnell may not enjoy being single, Gold said that “Ro” is getting by just fine: “She seems happy and grounded. She’s in the drivers seat here.”

O’Donnell’s annual Broadway Extravaganza, held in New York City, is a fundraiser for her arts education organization, Rosie’s Kids.

[From People]

I feel for her… but I’m sure there’s someone out there for her. I’m being serious too – I’m not saying Rosie’s a catch, but I’m sure she’ll be able to find someone nice and decent. Her friend Judy Gold told OK! Magazine that Rosie isn’t ready for us to fix her up, though. Gold said: “I don’t think she’s probably ready. You have that marriage, you have the kids — it’s a long process. I have no idea. [With the split], I think it’s her choice and I think she has kids… I think she’s entitled to her private life, and that’s what it is — private. I think it’s great that she’s in the driver’s seat here.” Aw… poor Rosie. I want her to find someone nice, but quirky. Last night Natasha Lyonne and Queen Latifah were at the event… maybe they want to date Rosie?

Header photo is Rosie O’Donnell with her kids Chelsea and Parker and “a friend” at Rosie’s Broadway Extravaganza event in New York, November 23, 2009. Additional photos of Rosie with Natasha Lyonne (who has gained a lot of weight) and Queen Latifah, who looks amazing. Credit: WENN.

Ashlee Simpson is marching forward with her career after getting fired from Melrose Place for her bad acting. Actually, you could also say she’s taking a big step backwards. Not because her upcoming plans are a step down. But because she’s returning to her old role in the musical “Chicago.” Simpson played Roxie Hart in the London stage version, and now she’s taking it to Broadway.

Where does a crazy Melrose Place character go after she dies? Apparently, the Windy City by way of the Great White Way.

According to reports, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, 25, isn’t taking a break after getting axed from the prime-time soap. Instead, she’s set to play Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of Chicago, starting in December for six weeks, Gossip Cop reports.

It’s not an unfamiliar role. Simpson-Wentz played the role in the London run of the musical. It would, however, be her Broadway debut.

[From People]

“Chicago” was really good to Ashlee. She’d previously had a bit of acting under her belt (“Malcolm in the Middle,” and her own “reality” show) and had that infamous SNL lip-syncing debacle. She got decent reviews for “Chicago,” and it was right around that time that she got her nose job and was starting to be referred to as “hot” instead of “Jessica Simpson’s ugly duckling sister.” Not that she ever was an ugly duckling, but she was never competition until right around that time. She started becoming more of a gossip fixture, and now she gets almost as much coverage as Jessica.

Frankly, it sounds like a smart move. Broadway demands a different type of acting from something like “Melrose Place.” Certainly not worse acting, so it’s not like Ashlee found the perfect solution. But you can be a bit hammier and it can still work. I tend to think Ashlee couldn’t do the Melrose style, but that doesn’t mean she’s lost as an actress altogether. I think something that’s literally more theatric could work. And she’ll have a change of scenery and all that, which’ll be nice. Hey, maybe Pete Wentz will even have to babysit and stay in some nights while Ashley goes out. Naw. Though People didn’t mention it, something tells me Pete won’t be joining Ashley in NYC. I’m sure the divorce rumors will start by tomorrow afternoon.

Here’s Ashley (with big sis Jessica) at her West End debut in “Chicago” on September 25th, 2006. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Though I’ve grown to have a vague dislike of both Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker as people, I still think they’re gifted actors. SJP does her thing with the Sex and the City films and that’s her niche, while Matthew Broderick seems content to be a film and television character actor and a respected stage actor. I sometimes forget just how good Broderick is – but I love him in some of his smaller roles, like his guest appearance on 30 Rock a few years ago, and his supporting performance in You Can Count On Me. So, given that, this latest news is disappointing.

According to Gatecrasher, Broderick has been sucking hard during the previews for his latest play, The Starry Messenger. Apparently, Broderick was completely unprepared during the previews, and he repeatedly flubbed his lines and stopped the play. Paying audience members left the play in droves, and the opening has even been pushed back:

Theatergoers must have wanted to “shoot the messenger” during the first preview of Matthew Broderick’s new play on Monday night. The Broadway veteran put on such a poor showing at “The Starry Messenger” that some fans left in a huff.

Producers may have taken notice of the subpar performance, too: they announced yesterday afternoon that the show will officially open a week later than planned, on Nov. 23.

The reason for all the fuss? Broderick clearly wasn’t prepared for the preview, and had to stop the play to ask for his lines numerous times during the show. And not that anyone’s counting, but, well, okay, they are: An audience member confirms Broderick flubbed 10 times in the first act alone.

A theater insider tells us that Broderick – who has starred in “The Producers,” “The Foreigner” and “The Philanthropist,” among others – is notorious for studying scripts late in the game. But fans weren’t very forgiving after Monday’s performance. Several members of the audience took to talkinbroadway.com, a theater Web site used by Broadway regulars, to air their grievances.

“Broderick should be fined for this sort of thing,” one angry user wrote. “The theater, the producers, Kenneth Lonergan (the director) and Broderick should be ashamed to have let an audience in for this.”

Another Broadway fan who hadn’t even seen the show chimed in: “For God’s sake, they are charging good money for this, and it is indeed unconscionable to use these as rehearsals. I only hope they do cancel this week of performances because I, too, have a ticket, and I don’t want to endure this either.”

Perhaps audience members were being a bit harsh. It was just a preview, after all, and a source close to the show says that a recent casting change may have led to the play’s rocky start. Merwin Goldsmith replaced Jonathan Hadary just this past weekend.

But our insider says Broderick’s flubs were more than just a few butchered lines. “It was an overall mess,” said the source. “He kept apologizing under his breath after he forgot a line, and everyone in the audience started to feel awkward.”

It’s a bad start for Broderick and his “Starry Messenger” run, which comes right after some unkind critical notices for Sarah Jessica Parker’s hubby. Several outlets panned his performance in “The Philanthropist,” which ran from April to June. While one review commented on his “dullness,” others even got a little personal, dissing the sideburns he grew for the part.

[From Gatecrasher]

Ugh… if I paid for a ticket, I would be totally pissed too. What’s up with Broderick? Too many late nights staying up with the new twins? We know that barely two months after their twin girls were brought home, SJP went to work on SATC 2, working hellish hours as both the star and producer. While some suspect that the nannies are pretty much raising those babies now, some thought that Matthew was probably picking up the baby-bonding slack. But he signed on for this play knowing that SJP was still at work on SATC. I’m going to go relatively easy on Matthew and say that his lack of professionalism is probably due to the new babies and he’s simply exhausted.

Sienna Miller is still giving some interviews here and there to promote her role in After Miss Julie on Broadway. Sienna spoke to Rush & Malloy (from the NYDN) about one of the “stunts” that she and costar Jonny Lee Miller have to perform every night. Apparently, the play calls for Sienna to grab Jonny’s… what shall we call them…? His “boys”? His nuggets? His tea bags? His plums? His stones? His walnuts? His jewels? His sweet potatoes? I could go on. But I’ll stop. Anyway, Sienna has to “grab” Jonny’s man-jigglies and according to Jonny, he’s not worried about it whatsoever. He defends Sienna by saying she’s “skilled” at what she has to do:

Sienna Miller storied love life has obviously left her with a little learning about the care and handling of men’s privates.

In her Broadway play, “After Miss Julie,” there’s a scene where Sienna’s character flies into a rage and grabs the scrotum of her co-star, Jonny Lee Miller. She’s quite convincing.
How does she manage to put Jonny’s family jewelry in such a vise without hurting him?

“I shouldn’t give away the secret,” the actress told us at the play’s opening last week. “But I’m obviously not doing what it looks like. I grab a bit of his thigh.”

Jonny, who no doubt learned to tolerate firm-handed women during his marriage to Angelina Jolie, vouched that the scene doesn’t make him nervous. “I don’t wear a cup or anything,” he laughed. “She’s a skilled actress.”

Should Sienna’s claw miss its target by an inch one night, muscular Jonny allowed, he might have an involuntary reaction. “She’d fly off the stage in a second,” he predicted.
We asked Sienna whether two of the Broadway stars who’ve helped her train for the scene, her ex-lovers Jude Law and Daniel Craig, had come to see her.

“Not yet,” said Sienna, who’s twice seen Law in “Hamlet.” “But it’s very difficult when you’re all onstage at the same time.”

Does she see New York as a refuge from Britain’s class system, as the characters in her play do?

“I think the class system is as prevalent here as it is in England,” she said. “But I think America is massively optimistic. I love coming here.”

[From Rush & Malloy]

I really hope Sienna and Jonny don’t hook up. I don’t want her claws anywhere near him or his walnuts. But that’s life, I suppose. Sometimes life hands you lemons and you have to grab those lemons and twist. Too much?

In one more piece of Sienna-grabbing-family-jewels news, Balthazar Getty gave a quote to OK! Magazine UK over the weekend, and it’s very cryptic. Balthy says: “It’s very difficult when you read about your own love life. It’s hard to have to share that with the world.” Uh… so, are they still dating? Because the last we heard was Balthy and Lindsay Lohan were hooking up.

One of the things I’ve never understood about Sienna Miller is how she ever came to be known as a fashion icon. Were people simply desperate for a young, cute starlet who dressed like she was going to Woodstock? I’ve never really hated Sienna’s style, I just didn’t see what the big deal about it is. She was boho for a few years, and then she tried a more modern look, and now she just seems to wear whatever. Like this Blamain dress, which Sienna wore last night for the opening night of her Broadway debut in After Miss Julie. I just find this look so… meh. Yeah, her body looks good. Yes, it’s kind of interesting. But wouldn’t it look pretty if the dress wasn’t shredded? Wouldn’t it look classy to show up to your big Broadway opening in a dress that didn’t look like Sienna came from a catfight with some disgruntled wife?

Anyway, the reviews are in for After Miss Julie, and the only the critics are unanimous about is how Sienna has amazing legs. Ben Brantley of the New York Times liked her, sort of, but he kept talking about Sienna the celebrity rather than Sienna the actress. He praised her “good diction, good posture and great legs. Commendable as these attributes are, they are of limited use in portraying a tautly wound, death-courting neurotic who is eaten alive by her own demons.” The AP critic also mentions Sienna’s great legs - noting that she “looks sensational: blonde hair done up in a quintessential 1940s ‘do, her trim figure wrapped in a pert floral print dress that shows off her great legs. The very model of a seducer awaiting to commence seduction … And there is a relentless quality to Sienna Miller’s performance, not terribly subtle or vulnerable, but compelling in its obsessiveness.” Meanwhile John Simon of Bloomberg News thinks Sienna gives a “persuasive performance” and that’s about it.

One other notable review was the NY Daily News, which found Sienna to be “improbably beautiful, every inch the ‘fine-looking filly’ John calls her. She’s committed and competent, but her performance is a shade monochromatic, not modulated enough to make Miss Julie’s jagged edges sharp.” You know who all the critics loved though? My boy Jonny Lee Miller. Every critic praised his performance, so “Yea!” for Jonny. And “Boo! Hiss!” for this dress. I know some of you will like it, but it’s inappropriate for her Broadway opening.

Photo credit: WENN.com