Nicole Kidman Is On a High

I know what you know: She’s 700 feet tall and made of pure Carrara marble. She has the silhouette of a Giacometti sculpture and has crushed movies, television, and all the Hollywood things as effortlessly, it would seem, as my kids pop bubble wrap. While her peers blew in white-hot, cooled to red-hot, then fizzled, flatlined, and peeled off into God knows where, Nicole Kidman just kept accelerating forward. I can’t think of a time she hasn’t been relevant. Big screen, small screen, all the medium-size screens. She has been everywhere in our lives, yet we never tire of her.