Cate Blanchett saves 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'
The quirky, left-of-center obsessions of my adolescence are varied and abnormally numerous. Among others, they included (rather, include) France, IKEA, Vespas and, chief among them, Elizabeth I. The Virgin Queen, Good Queen Bess, call her what you may -- she was an unexpected heroine of mine, and the focus of a fascination that should have been directed towards something like baseball, playing cards or learning what a carburetor is.