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Lucy Bradshaw = Sofia Coppola Sims scion Tinseltown tyro...
...also the obvious consideration of the lack of artistic control often presented the writer. After the script is composed and put into production, the writer is rarely allowed to offer his or her input on a set. This might explain why writer-directors (David Gordon Green, Sofia Coppola and their ilk) often produce the most satisfying works; their undiluted vision makes for the most sound, unified...
Deadwood HBO-izes this material, though, not just in its profanity but in its moral ambiguity and social criticism. The show is like McCabe for more reasons than that it involves whorehouses and business conflicts. Like the '70s movies of Altman, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola and others, HBO's dramas rework popcorny genre formats (the cop drama, the Mob flick) with dark, even cynical themes: that institutions are corrupt, that people and systems and families will screw you over, that heroes are never entirely heroic or villains alone in their villainy. Deadwood wants to show not just...
Leave it to Sofia Coppola to defy the fashion trends of the evening and still come out on top. Predictably wearing a Marc Jacobs gown (the two are nearly inseparable), the dramatic black silk dress flirted with feminine frills but boldly maintained the elegance of Oscar splendor. But the glory of Sofia lies in her nonchalant and sometimes downright bitchy persona—an elaborate hairstyle or gown would be utterly superfluous. Her look for the evening perfectly typified her class and sass...
...socialite with an easy, blue-blood version of Up with People charm, told me muse responsibility ranges wildly from house to house. I found that surprising for a job in which you get paid merely for existing. But musing can be anything from prancing around the studio, as Sofia Coppola does for Marc Jacobs, to what Brooks does for Tuleh designer Bryan Bradley, which includes giving her opinion on fabrics and designs--something that sounded suspiciously like work until I found out that Brooks draws little hearts next to the parts she likes. I like to think Beatrice's copy...