With her effervescent personality and “beautiful face of light,” Amy Adams plays a believable ingenue. Yet the thirty-nine-year-old relishes revealing new depths. As a seductive 1970s scam artist in “American Hustle,” for instance, audiences and critics alike delight in her character’s…
Joaquin Phoenix and the Lost Souls Club
I really enjoyed pulling together this profile of Joaquin Phoenix, who has an affinity for lost souls. His Oscar-nominated turns as a conniving Roman emperor in “Gladiator,” country-music legend Johnny Cash in “Walk the Line,” and a disturbed World War II…