Charlize Theron: So wicked, so gorgeous - so much more interesting than Snow White

Close your eyes and think of England! which is generally good advice for any occasion.

Its funny to me! Here we are in a supposedly secular, informal, democratic, non-royal country and we are surrounded by queens wearing crowns and coronets. We are queen crazy.

There is a wonderful photo of the queen of England in Newsweek, taken from the rear with her white curls neatly tucked under a diamond coronet. The other queen is actress Charlize Theron. I think, after Angelina Jolie, she is just about Hollywoods rare-these-days royal real movie star. (Lets exempt Meryl Streep from this. She is the Empress Star!)

But on screen as the wicked stepmother in Snow White and the Huntsman, Charlize is the star to wish upon.

BTW, personally, I wouldnt let a child under 9 go to see this movie. It has so many unusually icky violent, unnecessary bloody and pointless moments. Little girls yearning for ballet slippers, princess crowns and Prince Charmings would be frightened to death. The storys premise is that none but the innocent virgin Snow White can kill the Wicked Queen, and the Wicked Queen must eat Snow Whites heart to gain immortality and eternal beauty. OK its a plot theory by the Brothers Grimm. But here it is just grim. And boring. Miss Theron to never fail to get back to her is fabulous, sexy in her believability, invincible as they age her over and over, bouncing back in all her extravagant wickedness and shouting like a modern fishwife, who is irritated and impatient: Get out! Get out! to servants. But we are often irritated because we constantly cut away to Kristen Stewart the nondescript Snow White (she is more beautiful than the queen?) running away, seeming always bewildered, non-plussed, unrealistic and in spite of her magical qualities, never putting them to any use except for a lot of physical exertion, swimming, running, climbing and falling in exhaustion.

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Charliz e Theron is an Oscar winner who will do anything for her art, even lets the movie kill her with old age. Shes beautiful and dynamic, even as a crone. Theron herself is a child of 37.

Snow White and the Huntsman is overwrought! And, it had the most horrible invited audience of half-dressed young people who all sat playing with phones lighted throughout. They were wearing tank-top underwear, sagging pants, super shorts, backward caps. They were the epitome of 21st century casual.