Word: hollywood
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...that's just Hollywood whimsy - the button wouldn't be in serious trouble today without the pernicious crusade of Steve Jobs. The new iPod Shuffle is just the latest salvo in an ongoing battle, dating back to Apple's early days. For nearly a decade, Apple's mouse famously included just a single button (right-clicking be damned!). After years of complaints from users, Apple released a new "Mighty Mouse" in 2005 that still featured just a single button, although the design incorporated technology that allowed the mouse to detect clicks in different directions. This was deemed more acceptable...
Fame, fortune and Hollywood should have followed. But little changed for McKellen. "I am an RSC sort of actor," he says of his decision to stay in Stratford. "There is nothing more sinister or enlightening than that." Besides, the RSC was in its golden age. The concentration of talent intensified with the arrival at Stratford of a new generation of actors including Kenneth Branagh, Jeremy Irons, Charles Dance and Sean Bean. By then, the veterans had developed an informal set of rules for themselves: Take the craft seriously (Dench: "deadly"). Don't take yourself seriously (Stewart: "That's death...
...Just as Hollywood's largest studios have been debating the "DVD window" for years - torn between maximizing the profitability of a movie's DVD release and cannibalizing its theatrical campaign - so have independent filmmakers been debating how to cope with the window between the film festival and the art house, where attendance has been sagging. Some distributors have encouraged directors to forgo the theater, advocating direct-to-DVD strategies or premieres on such premium cable networks as HBO. But many filmmakers say the disadvantage of those distribution plans is that they fail to generate the press and word of mouth...
...Last Emperor. "They want to be beautiful." But the question any couturier must answer is, What kind of beautiful do they want to be? For Valentino, as he and the fashion house he created are called, it's the very traditional kind: the long lines and soft fabrics of Hollywood Golden Age couture. From 1964, when he captured Jacqueline Kennedy's attention and began clothing her in a monarch widow's blacks and whites, the little man with the slim, feline smile has outfitted a host of high-end one-name celebrities - Liz, Diana, Julia - and the Euro-royalty whose...
...incomplete half of one fabulous organism. Even Giammetti is impressed: "I've never seen two people so close for so many years, not being married." For the designer of couture inspired by American movies, it's only fitting that he and Giammetti should live out an old-fashioned Hollywood romance...