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...Just as Hollywood's largest studios have been debating the "DVD window" for years - torn between maximizing the profitability of a movie's DVD release and cannibalizing its theatrical campaign - so have independent filmmakers been debating how to cope with the window between the film festival and the art house, where attendance has been sagging. Some distributors have encouraged directors to forgo the theater, advocating direct-to-DVD strategies or premieres on such premium cable networks as HBO. But many filmmakers say the disadvantage of those distribution plans is that they fail to generate the press and word of mouth...
...Last Emperor. "They want to be beautiful." But the question any couturier must answer is, What kind of beautiful do they want to be? For Valentino, as he and the fashion house he created are called, it's the very traditional kind: the long lines and soft fabrics of Hollywood Golden Age couture. From 1964, when he captured Jacqueline Kennedy's attention and began clothing her in a monarch widow's blacks and whites, the little man with the slim, feline smile has outfitted a host of high-end one-name celebrities - Liz, Diana, Julia - and the Euro-royalty whose...
...incomplete half of one fabulous organism. Even Giammetti is impressed: "I've never seen two people so close for so many years, not being married." For the designer of couture inspired by American movies, it's only fitting that he and Giammetti should live out an old-fashioned Hollywood romance...
...Aside from new and improved special effects, what Hollywood seems to have been producing lately is noise, noise that we don’t need. In light of everything threatening the fabric of this country, what is the point of a place like that? Lane’s question, albeit in an altered form, deserves an answer...
...award was correct when they gave it to me, but not so much now' doesn't speak well of their sense of collegiality." Carlos Javier Trejo, a bullfighting critic based in Seville, agrees. "I think José Tomás had a little flare-up of vanity, like a Hollywood actor who returns an Oscar because he doesn't like the person who wins it the year after him. But it's very unfortunate, because it hurts bullfighting as a whole," Trejo says...