What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent:
Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream
celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent
death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.
While the
death of Mick Jagger's partner
cast a pall over the week, there was happy news with first pics of The Poo's new bub and fun shots of the stars celebrating St Patrick's Day... >> The most shocking — and tragic —
celebrity news of the week was that Mick Jagger «s partner of -LSB-...]