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...followed nearly identical paths from the Harvard Lampoon to Fox Studios and the upper echelons of Hollywood writer fame...
...couple, who now have three children. She says that Cuse’s talents were already evident in college. “He’s very smart, very focused,” she says. “The enormous success that he’s had in Hollywood is no surprise to anyone who knew him in college.” ‘A METAPHOR ABOUT FAITH’Cuse says that one of the things that attracted him to “Lost” was that it dealt with issues and worked on a level that...
...middle class professionals, we will discover that our college dreams are difficult to fulfill. There are only so many senators and congressmen in the U.S. and only so many heads of states in the world. There are only 500 CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies, few major Hollywood producers, and even fewer best-selling authors. Most of them didn’t go to Harvard. None of them ever got invited. No one is about to make...
Josef von Sternberg was a famous Hollywood auteur in 1930 and Dietrich a minor Berlin actress when he cast her as Lola, the crass chanteuse of The Blue Angel. Just like that, a star was born: an anti-Garbo who viewed life and love as a series of awful amusements. In their seven films together--of which a terrific trio (Morocco, Blonde Venus and The Devil Is a Woman) are included here--Sternberg swathed Dietrich's wry sexuality in silk, feathers, a gorilla suit and his camera's soft-focus devotion. As his films got more deliriously abstract...
...World War II, Aarons determined to devote the rest of his career to chronicling, in his words, "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Among the best-known images: Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing conspiratorially in a 1957 photo called The Kings of Hollywood, left, which Smithsonian magazine called the "Mount Rushmore of stardom...