The push to ban gas-powered leaf blowers has gained an unlikely figurehead: Cate Blanchett, the Australian actress. “Leaf blowers need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth,” she said in an ...

Cate Blanchett is discussing her new production of Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull when she brings up one of her pet peeves: audience participation in theater. “It’s an act of aggression when people ...