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...carriage that deposited a glorious Edwardian vision in gray tulle onto the runway. The audience was treated to a fashion history lesson, the postwar full-skirted New Look that put Dior on the map giving way to a series of 1950s-style debutante gowns and finally a parade of Hollywood-inspired entrancemakers - all deconstructed to look like works in process and thus demonstrate the skills of the ateliers. There were lessons to be learned at Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel show, too. He presided over a confident master class in craftsmanship, which opened with a procession of models in long black...
DIED. JUNE HAVER, 79, wholesome actress of such 1940s film musicals as The Dolly Sisters and Look for the Silver Lining, promoted briefly as the next Betty Grable; in Los Angeles. A tumultuous personal life led her in 1953 to join a convent briefly, before returning to Hollywood and marrying actor Fred MacMurray in 1954. Their marriage lasted until his death...
...York Times. Just consider that Sean, in typical eyebrow-raising rock-star fashion, picked actress Bipasha Basu for his music video in part because she was racy enough to have had an onscreen kiss--a rarity for a Bollywood star. The mores of bare-it-all Hollywood could not be further away...
...help AMC Entertainment reach a broader audience and negotiate better deals for popcorn and soda. But some are dubious of the synergy. Several big theater conglomerates have battled bankruptcy, and General Cinema filed for Chapter 11 in 2000. "Is there a merger that's worked out right in Hollywood in the past 20 years?" asks industry expert Arthur de Vany, author of Hollywood Economics. "I can't think of one." --By Jeremy Caplan
...palpable sense of place; every frame reveals the heat and heart of Memphis. The film may be more like Rocky the club fighter than Rocky the box-office champ, but as people keep saying here, "Everybody gotta have a dream." One would be that the Hollywood factory starts financing movies like this--handmade and homegrown. --Reported by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles