Is this Kate Winslet's year? The actress has received five Oscar nominations and five Golden Globe nominations to date, but never won. In a pincer movement that might see her break her duck, she is up for awards in two separate categories at tonight's Globes ceremony. She is the lead actress in both the fifties US suburbs tragi-drama Revolutionary Road, directed by her husband Sam Mendes, and Stephen Daldry's Nazi-themed The Reader. To double her chances of success, she is nominated in the best supporting role for the latter.
Is this Kate Winslet's year? The actress has received five Oscar nominations and five Golden Globe nominations to date, but never won. In a pincer movement that might see her break her duck, she is up for awards in two separate categories at tonight's Globes ceremony.
She is the lead actress in both the fifties US suburbs tragi-drama Revolutionary Road, directed by her husband Sam Mendes, and Stephen Daldry's Nazi-themed The Reader. To double her chances of success, she is nominated in the best supporting role for the latter.
They've got blonde hair, blue eyes, and occupy a special place in heart of generations of schoolgirls from every corner of the globe. But for years, Barbie and Ken appear to have been hiding a guilty secret. The popular all-American toys turn out to have been created by "a full-blown Seventies-style swinger" with "a manic need for sexual gratification," who based their design on his favourite adult dolls, according to a new book.
They've got blonde hair, blue eyes, and occupy a special place in heart of generations of schoolgirls from every corner of the globe. But for years, Barbie and Ken appear to have been hiding a guilty secret.
The popular all-American toys turn out to have been created by "a full-blown Seventies-style swinger" with "a manic need for sexual gratification," who based their design on his favourite adult dolls, according to a new book.
