Give Me Your Best Grace Kelly

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I haven't been able to stop thinking about yesterday's news that Phillip Pullman's brilliant book series His Dark Materials is getting rebooted by the BBC for a miniseries - if you've never read the books now's your chance! I mean, every day has been your chance, but this offers yet another one! No judgment! (I am judging you until you read them.) Anyway our pal Nathaniel mentioned the news over at TFE today and pointed out an excellent point:

"Good luck besting Nicole Kidman's Miss Coulter."

When I read the books eons ago even then I knew that the only person right for the villainous Mrs. Coulter was Nicole Kidman -- it was one of those perfect preordained bits of casting that thankfully worked out. And considering this today I realized we've currently got yet another example of such an occurrence -- nobody but nobody but Cate Blanchett was right for the role of Carol Aird in an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's story The Price of Salt, and thankfully the fates aligned and made is thus. (Here's my review of Todd Haynes' Carol.) But since we always feel the need to put everything into competition with everything else, we must ask...

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