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...Another way "Closer" diverges from the standard Hollywood movie is that it allows, insists on, multiple points of view and shifting audience allegiances. "People are going to switch depending on their emotional history," Owen says. "Have they been betrayed? Have they betrayed somebody? I think all of us of a certain age - all of us who have had any average experience of sex - have, to some extent, been in some of these scenes. And depending on your experience, that's where you sit. So it's not like one character takes you through the journey, and you experience...
...Nichols couldn't agree less. "I think that it's a movie about aggression," he says. "And about assessing where you stand in some kind of comparison. One of the great dangers of living in Hollywood, and the reason it's really unwise, is that it's very hard to fight the virus: 'How am I perceived?' And once you preoccupy yourself with that question you're pretty much lost. It's all over Hollywood: you can see whether your stock has gone up or down in the eyes of the parking attendant." Gee: If a top director can feel...
...administration is going to have to put its money where its mouth is—at least considerably far more money than it has previously. Raising awareness about admissions policies and financial aid programs is not easy, and to complicate matters the Office of Admissions must contend with persistent Hollywood attempts to exploit the Harvard image for hilarity and profits. But the true image of Harvard—an evolving institution accessible to all talent, regardless of family background—must reach promising students nationwide...
DIED. HOWARD KEEL, 85, beefy baritone who played opposite Betty Hutton, Doris Day and Jane Powell in such premier 1950s Hollywood musicals as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate; of colon cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In the 1980s he revived his career on TV's Dallas as Clayton Farlow, the debonair tycoon who romanced matriarch Miss Ellie and confounded...
...enough of whiskers, bleaching and streaks? Not in your beauty regimen, but in your designer jeans. A notable trend in the booming high-end denim business is taking Hollywood by storm: cleaned-up blue jeans. Fins Denim, a new Chicago-based company that has captured the loyalty of Gwyneth Paltrow, right, among others, promises a slim cut with none of the thong-revealing problems of other low-rise looks. Another plus: the jeans have just enough stretch in all the right places...