And just to complete the day, there was the unedifying sight of coach Henk Ten Cate having to restrain a graceless group of Chelsea's defeated players confronting referee Mark Halsey at the final whistle.
Without The Castle to protect her, Cate Blanchett is far more exposed when it comes to Australia's ongoing cultural wars.
Now that it's been turned into a motion picture starring megawatt movie stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, you have to wonder why anyone bothered.
And best of all is Cate Blanchett, who, thanks to camera trickery, plays both halves of a conversation between a starlet and her resentful, bohemian cousin she alternates between the slatternly and the prim with only a wig and body language.
Cate Blanchett brings her customary august bearing to the role of Galadriel.
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But Karen Allen, returning as Marion Ravenwood, seemed out of her element the whole time, especially when compared to actors like Shia LaBeouf and Cate Blanchett.
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Just read the adulatory reviews whenever Cate Blanchett takes a Sydney Theatre Company production to New York or Washington, or when Peter Carey publishes a new novel.
The reason for his fatigue: Serebryakov (John Bell), who owns the estate, has returned to it with his new wife, Yelena (Cate Blanchett).
Cate Edwards fled the courtroom in tears as a family friend took the stand to describe her mother's distress over her father's affair.
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, a reporter named Jake Geismer (George Clooney) returns to Berlin, where he meets an old flame named Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett).
Co-star Cate Blanchett, who plays Lucinda Leplastrier, an Australian heiress and fellow gambler, was drawn to Peter Carey's original story for similar reasons.
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