Reese Witherspoon will win the Golden Globe (Musical Comedy) award for her Walk the Line performance, and that’s cool. But the also-nominated Sara Jessica Parker delivers a more skilled and much-more-difficult-to-pull-off performance in The Family Stone, and the HFPA members should really think this over before voting. Witherspoon’s June Carter is all about spirit and buoyancy…the sincerity and level-headedness of a good country girl. But Parker’s performance is a trapeze act, and the more I think about it the more exceptional it seems.
