美國時代雜誌當期試讀(3/2)

Best Actress: Kate Winslet's Moment

It's 11 days before the Academy Awards, and Kate Winslet is giving her third best performance of the year. The occasion is a lunch at New York City's Oak Room at which 100 or so invited guests have gathered to honor her performance in Stephen Daldry's The Reader. This particular publicity event, orchestrated in the 26th mile of the Oscar marathon, has multiple purposes: it's designed to entice any wavering voters in the few days before the last postmark lands on the last ballot. It's also intended to defuse complaints that the movie's treatment of the Holocaust is too manicured. Thus, Elie Wiesel has been drafted to host the meal, which would have been a masterly counterstroke of damage control for distributor Harvey Weinstein had Wiesel not bailed at the last minute to attend — oh, bitter irony of the red-carpet campaign trail! — a bris. (See pictures of Winslet in her 10 best roles.)

But above all, this midday fete is engineered to give the movie's star one final turn in the spotlight. By the time Winslet arrives, she has already participated in several hours of diligent self-exposure that day, illuminating for both Larry King and the women of The View the complexities of pretending to have sex with Leonardo DiCaprio in the bleak marital drama Revolutionary Road while the film's director, Sam Mendes — her husband — watched. (See TIME's Oscar Guide: Best Actress.)

If she is fatigued, she never betrays it. An eager, insistent clot of people pushes toward her, and somehow she manages to greet each well-wisher with a fractional recalibration of body language that suggests a wordless surge of elated surprise on her part: Oh, it's you! You're the one I've been most hoping to see, and how wonderful that we share that secret knowledge! To achieve this effect, Winslet must appear, at every minute, to be not only the most interesting person in the room but also the most interested. This is not easy, and she does it very well. People walk away feeling glowy, sated and privileged. She has made them feel that way, and not out of actressy affectation, but because right now, it's her job. (See the top 10 movie performances of 2008.)

Of course, Winslet would rather be acting onscreen, which is, she says, "the one thing that I do for myself" — and lately the thing she has been doing better than just about anyone else. In an industry that insists that most actresses remain giggly, pliable and princessy well into middle age, Winslet has somehow avoided that pigeonhole entirely. She doesn't play girls; she never really has. She plays women. Unsentimentalized, restless, troubled, discontented, disconcerted, difficult women. And clearly, it's working for her. Her two most recent performances — as Hanna Schmitz, the illiterate former concentration-camp guard in The Reader, and as April Wheeler, the anguished, rageful 1950s wife and mother in Revolutionary Road — have earned her two Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild prize, a British Academy Award (BAFTA) and her sixth Oscar nomination, a benchmark that no actor so young has ever before reached. (See the Oscar's youngest Best Actress nominees.)

At 33, Winslet has become not only the finest actress of her generation but in many ways also the perfect actress for this moment. She's intense without being humorless. She's international in outlook (though raised in Reading, England, in a middle-class family of working actors, she now lives in New York City and won those Oscar nominations for playing three Americans, two Brits and a German). She's ambitious but cheerfully self-deflating, capable of glamour but also expressive of a kind of jolting common sense. She has a strong professional ethic, which she somehow balances with her domestic life (she and Mendes have a son, Joe, 5, and Winslet has a daughter, Mia, 8, from her first marriage — she takes both kids to school most days). And, cementing her status as an icon of the Era of New Seriousness, she really likes hard work. Assuming she's paid her taxes, are there still any openings in the Cabinet?

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粗魯來到我好久了

從哥哥幼稚園到現在都念國一了

記不得怎麼會叫他粗魯

其實他是很溫馴的

把牠養在水缸裡

牠每天曬太陽

欣賞風景

過的挺愜意的

本來牠還有一個朋友

是鄰居送的

可是那隻很皮

前一陣子下大雨

水缸的水滿了

那隻小綠的就跑了

害我們尋找傷心了一陣子

只希望他被其他人撿走

不要有什麼生命安全之虞才好

也常常自我安慰

前院綠油油到處是人家的菜園

或許牠可以活得很好

可惜最近降雨少了

不曉得會不會太乾

對了喔

忘記告訴大家粗魯是什麼動物

不知道有沒有人猜出來了

烏龜啦

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你如果沒有三兩三

勸你不要去逢甲夜市

話說我姐姐十幾二十年前（這樣會不會透漏了我的年齡，ㄜ，我跟他差很多啦）

念逢甲大學

那時候夜市只有小小一條

幾家熱賣的小吃店

串成一條溫馨的街道

這幾年

逢甲夜市

突然像個會長大的小孩

豐豐腴腴像個搔首弄姿的熟女

一下子變成全國知名

有一回

我老姊突然懷舊起來

在炎熱夏日裡

要我們帶她去逢甲

（他自從去台北發展

已經久不去此處）

我年近七旬的老母連說也要去

我說

萬萬不可

那人擠人的萬里嘈雜之處

你一定走不完的啦

怎知

他說他早去過又沒什麼

還生我悶氣

我問我哥哥他真的去過嗎

都說去過

結果我們一趟回來

一問清楚

原來他們之前去的只是外圍

如此

你們就知道逢甲夜市的核心

有多麼驚人了吧

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現在這種時機

還能不省嗎

前幾天

看新聞

美國儲蓄率大幅提搞幾十個百分比（沒記錯的話）

現在經濟崩盤

大家都不敢花錢不敢投資

可是這樣惡性循環下去

經濟不是會更差嗎

但是哪有什麼辦法

大家還是不敢花錢

可憐啊

省啊

就是整天泡在家裡

那裡能不去就不去

那就能省最多啦

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Once one of the most downtrodden and dangerous areas in New York City, Harlem is in the throes of a serious rejuvenation. And to cater to everyone moving into and hanging out in the north Manhattan neighborhood, Harlem's culinary scene is blossoming with new restaurants and lounges.

One recent arrival is Talay (www.talayrestaurant.com) in Morningside Heights, where Laos-born chef Soulayphet Schwader — a veteran of Laurent Tourondel's BLT restaurant empire — turns out a mixed Latin-Thai menu. Schwader's signature small-plate dishes include grilled langoustine with sriracha aioli and lemongrass pork sausage, as well as South American classics such as ropa vieja (a dish of spiced, shredded beef) — all served in the sleekly hip dining room or the private, plush Buddha Room. (See 10 things to do in New York City.)

Next door to Talay is Covo (www.covony.com), a massive warehouse of a joint where the wood-burning ovens deliver around a dozen types of pizzas — from prosciutto crudo to Treviso (radicchio, gorgonzola and walnuts) — and the fresh sea bass is marinated in white wine and oregano before being baked whole in a brick oven.

Just moments away, there's the Hudson River Café (www.hudsonrivercafe.com). The split-level boite, set into a converted mechanic's shop right under the West Side Highway, serves up a "new American" menu heavy on comfort food: grilled pork chops, lobster quesadillas, Kobe-beef burgers. And to wash it all down, a selection of Harlem-inspired cocktails such as the Harlem Spice — a mix of tequila, fresh lime, fresh orange and jalapeño. (See pictures of New York City.)

Ten minutes south, on Broadway near Columbia University, Campo — "gathering place" in Italian — is living up to its name (www.camponyc.com). New York foodies congregate inside the rust-and-gold dining room (accented by exposed brick and pressed tin on the ceiling) to indulge in chef David Rotter's fresh takes on Italy's greatest hits, including fried risotto balls, monkfish milanese and chicken alla diavolo cooked under a brick.

And close by is Community Food and Juice (www.communityrestaurant.com), brought to you by the folks behind the Lower East Side's cult-favorite eatery Clinton Street Baking Company. With its pastry provenance, Community is good for mornings and even better for brunch, when chef Neil Kleinberg dishes up midday must-tries such as smoked salmon benedict and seven-grain waffles with roasted apples and pears. It's a mix as eclectic and exciting as Harlem itself.

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