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Spanning the '60s and '70s, Dreamgirls is about the pop-cultural battle of glamour vs. soul: of Deena (Beyoncé Knowles), the pretty singer, vs. Effie (Jennifer Hudson), a vocal volcano but a bit plump. Curtis (Jamie Foxx), their manager, banking on Deena's smooth sound and looks to peddle the Dreams to white audiences, will do anything to make the sale. The piece plumbs the lure of compromise, the risk of diluted dreams and broken hearts...
...Writing. I never really wanted to be an actor because I grew up watching my mother's career decline. Why would I have any illusions about the glamour of Hollywood or wanting to be a star? What I knew early on is that it all goes away. I grew up watching endings. Acting was never as enjoyable to me as it is to someone who hasn't seen it before...
...Paris," says Christian Louboutin, sitting in his cluttered office on the rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "Hôtel Drouot, for example, is a place where you see people selling their estate, and when they do, you see really their whole life. It's not just an auction house with glamour sales of famous paintings." Among his other usual haunts: a gardening bookshop, a restaurant for the blind and a very reliable Parisian shirtmaker. Here's a peek inside the little black book of one of fashion's greatest footwear designers...
...mother?" So Almodóvar gave his modern-day Loren a disheveled up-do, some thick black eyeliner, that butt and a feminine character who gets to range from fragile to furious. Cruz balances screwball humor and a little vulgarity (there are fart jokes) with a screen-goddess glamour that can't be faked. "Pedro says I have a dark side," Cruz says, "and I know he does. Maybe that's another thing that connects us. I never feel completely safe next to him." Almodóvar and Cruz interrupt each other constantly, sometimes in Spanish, sometimes in English. "I feel like...
...become all the more impressive in the hands of a director who is able to create such a fantastic and compelling narrative. Murphy should also be commended for the film’s painful and isolating atmosphere that not only speaks to the Finch household, but also the disco glamour and antidepressant culture of the 1970s. Employing platform shoes and a soundtrack that includes Elton John, Murphy brings this decade to life. Murphy evokes such a sense of claustrophobia from his sets of the cluttered Finch household, that even the audience can feel its effects. Perhaps the only criticism...