Topic: The Box Office
I see that the actress Natasha Richardson has died due to a brain injury suffered in a skiing accident. She was just 45.
Among the tributes that are pouring in, there is but scant mention of Ms. Richardson's performance in The Handmaid's Tale (1990), a film adapted from the novel by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. I mention this fact only because The Handmaid's Tale is without doubt one of the worst movies ever made, right up there with Valley of the Dolls (1967) in the category of unintentional (and hilarious) self-parody.
The Handmaid's Tale is one of those cult classics that movie buffs love to hate. I suspect that they'll still be talking about it when most of Ms. Richardson's other films have been forgotten. As the career of Ed Wood demonstrated, there is a kind of immortality in that.
