Cover story: Bloomsbury to Beverly Hills; The big winner at the Golden Globes was The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman and inspired by the life of Virginia Woolf. But who'd have thought that Hollywood could fall in love with the bitchy queen of 20th-century modernism? By JOHN WALSH.(Features)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: January 21, 2003| Author: Walsh, John | Copyright information

At the Golden Globes ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday night, the prize for Best Motion Picture Drama went to The Hours, a film in which three melancholy women contemplate or watch or perform the act of suicide. The award for Best Actress went to Nicole Kidman for her portrayal in the film of the writer Virginia Woolf, a performance that has far more silences in it than words. Surrounded by competition from the ritzy musical, Chicago, the vividly brutal Gangs of New York, the second ...

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