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...Like Hollywood itself, this kind of reasoning is all very male. How many female directors are known for running projects into the ground due to arrogant self-confidence? Oh wait, American female directors hardly exist, for reasons having a lot to do with the above maledom. We’ll always have Sofia Coppola, but though a promising filmmaker, she has obviously been helped in no small amount by being the daughter of the reigning king of brilliantly self-destructive, over-the-top masculinity...
That is, it is filled with blood and boobies and shot using the gorgeous black-and-white line drawings of the comic book as a storyboard. The sex is typical Hollywood fare, but the violence, heavy on dismemberment—especially of male genitalia—and decapitation, brings the film dangerously close to NC-17 territory...
Though we are no monarchy, America has its own sort of aristocracy, where the rich are encouraged to marry the rich. Many a Hollywood tale has told of the frowned-upon romance between the uptown girl and the downtown man. Besides bringing me back to my middle school dreams, watching Leonardo DiCaprio at the Oscars reminded me that Jack was not allowed to marry Rose—and that is inexorably the tragedy of Titanic...
...Franken Factor": Franken and NPR refugee Catherine Lanpher. 3 to 7 P.M.: Randi Rhodes ("I'm Jewish, I'm from Brooklyn"), who had built strong ratings in South Florida. 7 to 8 P.M., "So What Else Is News?": a magazine-show-style survey hosted by Hollywood producer Marty Kaplan. 8 to 11 P.M., "The Majority Report": comic Garofalo and comedian-director Seder...
...says another player. "It's a strategy, but you know what? It's a damned good strategy because it's working." When asked about Mickelson's image, golf Hall of Famer and NBC analyst Johnny Miller breaks into a show tune. "Hah-lly-wood," he sings. "It's all Hollywood, man. Phil's a smart guy like that." Mickelson has no answer to accusations of excess gregariousness: "I don't really have anything to say. I really don't know what...