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Many of the interviews in the film, with neighbors and friends like Mia Farrow, paint a picture of Polanski at his peak, when he was one of Hollywood's hottest directors, fresh off the critical and commercial hit Rosemary's Baby and married to the beautiful actress Sharon Tate. "At a certain point in his life, Roman Polanski had a lot of hope," says Zenovich. "He was living this great life. He was so talented and everyone wanted to work with him. He had survived the Holocaust, soared out of Poland on sheer personality. I wanted to put his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redeeming Roman Polanski | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

Unlike the rest of Hollywood, Stallone was smart enough to make an antiwar movie that's not about the Middle East. And he wasn't about to make a pro-Iraq-war film; 2004 was the first year he didn't vote for a Republican presidential candidate, even though the man was born on the same day as he was and has pecs almost as big. Stallone's particularly galled by Bush's tough talk. "You see Bush, and you see the obstinacy and the arrogance. Go out there and ride in a humvee 10 times, and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stallone on a Mission | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...makeshift memorial outside the apartment building in which Heath Ledger was found dead on Tuesday afternoon. Among about a dozen bouquets of flowers, handwritten notes and flickering candles stood a hand-drawn portrait of the square-jawed actor, a cigarette jutting from his lips, reminiscent of James Dean, a Hollywood legend who also died young and famous. Ledger was at a point in his career where he had graduated from heartthrob (A Knight's Tale) to serious screen actor (Brokeback Mountain) when a housekeeper came across his naked body in his Manhattan loft at 421 Broome Street. A day after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clues in Heath Ledger's Death | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

...That's where I really felt like my destiny was in somebody else's hands, and it was all being masterminded." The role in Brokeback, a sheep rancher trying to come to terms with his homosexuality, attracted him because of its complexity - and because it contrasted with his Hollywood "image." "It was going to be a challenge," he told me, "It was going to be one of those roles ... I would have to mature as a person and mature as an actor in order to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heath Ledger: Star in Distress | 1/22/2008 | See Source »

...name of the prize will be the "Harvard Lampoon Woman of the Year" award, according to a statement from Hilton's media company. The Pudding's Man and Woman of the Year Awards will be announced this Thursday on Access Hollywood, an entertainment-news show, Lachter said...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lampoon Award Dupes Press | 1/22/2008 | See Source »

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