Word: hollywood
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...These reflections are occasioned by the arrival from France of La Vie En Rose, a biopic about the gifted, fragile and intermittently insane chanteuse Edith Piaf. Writer-director Olivier Dahan, has given her story a sumptuous production - with the look of an old-fashioned Hollywood musical sob story - as well as a maddeningly fragmented structure. For reasons best known to Dahan, he is always cutting from Piaf (played by Marion Cotillard) at the height of her relatively brief life (she was discovered in 1935 and died, at age 47, in 1963) to this or that aspect of her dismal past...
...time when movie stars flocked to photographers for an even more glamorous image, Wallace Seawell was a king. Putting subjects at ease with his gushing enthusiasm ("The aura of the person excites you," he once said), Seawell, below, created shiny, highly stylized portraits, often for celebrity magazines, of Hollywood royalty like Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor...
Scott S. Smith, WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF...
...Conservative blog the Illinois Review says Shrek the Third advances Hollywood's transgender agenda by featuring manly ugly stepsister Doris, voiced by Larry King. Blog DEFAMER mockingly applauds the Illinois Review for its efforts to stop a campaign that could persuade Shrek-watching children to "wear gender-inappropriate clothing to school, 'just like the funny man-lady in the Shrek movie did!'" SCORE...
...took a risk by airing its celeb-drenched Movie Awards live. For example, the network couldn't have predicted the antics of Best Villain--winner Jack Nicholson. Hollywood watcher LAIST, which live-blogged the event, reported Nicholson's first words upon receiving his golden popcorn: "I don't give a f___!" SCORE...