VENICE – Anyone who loves the Oscars remembers Julia Roberts’s best actress speech for “Erin Brockovich” in 2001. At nearly four minutes, it’s legendary, iconic, joyful, unhinged, humble, a little self-centred, way too long and top five of the 21st century – or maybe ever.

Who can forget her starting off with that famous laugh and immediately turning to the orchestra conductor and saying, “Sir, you’re doing a great job, but you’re so quick with that stick, so why don’t you sit, because I may never be here again?” Or, in the middle of thanking director Steven Soderbergh, laughing again, thrusting her Oscar in the air and crying out, “I love it up here!”

Roberts earned her place up there not just because of a great performance, but because of the many years she’d put into being the most ch

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