Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Film Review: Cloris Leachman Is The Saving Grace Of “Jump, Darling”
metroweekly.comPhil Connell’s Jump, Darling (★★★☆☆) is perhaps most notable for featuring one of the last performances of Cloris Leachman’s career.The legendary actress, who passed away at the age of 94 in January 2021, offers a quietly profound, poignant look at Margaret, an elderly woman for whom life no longer has a discernible point.
Lonely and isolated in her spacious home in Prince Edward, Canada, Margaret is more than ready to leave these corporeal confines for what lies beyond.When her 30-year-old grandson Russell (Thomas Duplessie) arrives on her doorstep, following a breakup with his boyfriend (the narrative’s weakest storyline), she finds temporary reprieve from her pain.Russell, however, has his own agenda, and as loving as he is, he can be curt and dismissive.
An actor with dashed dreams, he’s set his sights on making his living as a drag queen named Fishy Falters.“Is that a legit job?” Margaret asks. “Can be,” he replies. (Questionable, as no one seems to tip drag queens in Canada.)Russell seeks out the one more or less LGBTQ bar in the small Canadian town and almost ballistically forces himself onto its staff and patrons.
He attempts to court a barback but, like most everything else in Connell’s film, the end result feels fragmented and incomplete.It doesn’t help matters that Russell is a dislikable, morose character, and Duplessie’s hang-dog eyes and uneven performance don’t do much to endear us to the man — or his drag persona.Still, there’s no question Russell has an abundance of love and concern for his grandmother, a point driven home near the climax as Russell performs what seems like an act of selfishness that is, in reality, an act of selflessness.
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