Article: Nicole Kidman being pulled in two directions

In her 39th year, leading lady Nicole Kidman chose exactly two roles for herself.

Both of them pathologically messed-up women who destroy the things that should be dearest. Both of them mothers who make you want to reach through the screen and ferry their children into safer arms.

She chose to work for all of two months and three weeks last year, and that's the body of work she chose.

Celebrity watchers are likely to do an awful lot of armchair analysis about what that means coming from a woman who has spent the past few years entrenched in the personal drama of her becoming the former Mrs. Tom Cruise and the current Mrs. Keith Urban, all while continuing to be one of the most famous names ...

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