A New Favorite Actress

It's always great when you find a new actress who knocks you out, and I was knocked out by Amy Landecker who has a brief but wonderful role as Mrs. Samsky in the new and marvelous Coen Brothers movie "A Serious Man." Ms. Landecker has mostly done tv and it turns out that she is the great granddaughter of one of my heroes Joseph Welch who stood up to McCarthy and later played the judge in Anatomy Of Murder. With this movie and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds 2009 is looking to be a great movie year after all.