Critics Get Claws Out For Roberts

So much for being Hollywood’s golden girl: she may earn squillions, but Julia Roberts’ two-year absence from the screen seems to have turned US critics sour. Claws have been sharpened on her Broadway debut, with critics calling her "stiff with self-consciousness", "long-faced" and "almost ordinary". Miaow! "She's stiff with self-consciousness, only glancingly acquainted with the two characters she plays. Her voice is strangled, abrupt and often hard to hear. She has the tenseness of a woman who might break into pieces at any second," said one critic. Frankly, with reviews like that, can you blame the woman? Still, Roberts gets the last laugh as the entire run has sold out. Sour grapes to table two…