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...laws to curb young people's access to salons, but some have gone so far as to suggest raising taxes at the tanning booth. Lawsuits against the industry are also part of the strategy. In June, the first class action for indoor-tanning consumer fraud was filed against Hollywood Tanning Systems, in Mount Laurel, N.J., which operates one of the largest tanning chains in the U.S. The suit accuses the company of promoting UV lamps as a healthy alternative to outdoor tanning, likening a "safe" tan to a "safe" cigarette...
...boutique hit Entourage is a Hollywood wish-fulfillment comedy: a movie star and his buddies enjoy the material and sexual perks of fame. The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman (IFC, Fridays, 11 p.m. E.T.) is a Hollywood wish-deferment comedy. Jackie (Laura Kightlinger) is a writer for an obscure film magazine who wants to be a screenwriter; her best friend, Tara (Nicholle Tom), is going nowhere as a production-company assistant. "You're in the industry?" a neighbor asks Jackie. "Not as far as the industry knows," she answers...
...show sends up the usual Tinseltown types, but Kightlinger thoroughly rounds out Jackie, giving her the kind of drawling feminist sarcasm rarely seen since Roseanne left sitcomdom. Cynical yet principled, bitter but still ambitious, Jackie wants to conquer Hollywood yet not be of it. (She refuses, for instance, to drive.) She's the kind of tough, tart 21st century broad you would expect to idolize a '30s Derby queen: she's armed with a Billy Wilder wit and unafraid to throw elbows. And it's refreshing to see a sitcom about a woman past her 20s who is obsessed with...
...docudrama approach was mostly an excuse to show lowlifes in low lighting. And if Higgins supplied the craft of Mann's noir films, cinematographer John Alton surely served up the art. Before hooking up with Mann, Alton had a nomad's r?sum?: born in Hungary, an assistant in Hollywood silent films, shooting pictures in Argentina in the '30s, then B and C movies back in America. The two men clicked as collaborators, sparking with extreme visual tropes, each instantly elevating the other's work. "I found a director in Tony Mann who thought like I did," he told Todd McCarthy...
...Even in the less-than-pristine prints that exist today, The Black Book is an shining, or rather murky, example of monochromatic camera artistry. It makes a sympathetic viewer rue Hollywood's decision, in the mid-'60s, to make all movies in color. Something was lost: the cinematographer's ability to paint with light in black-and-white...