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DIED. Robert Altman, 81, prolific, curmudgeonly, irreplaceable renegade whose movies both defined and mocked the modern American spirit; in Los Angeles. Arriving in Hollywood after copiloting B-24 bombers in World War II, the Kansas City native kicked around the industry for nearly a quarter-century before directing MASH (1970), a ribald Army comedy set in the Korean War but offering a cynical take on U.S. involvement in Vietnam. MASH set the Altman attitude and technique: sprawling frescoes with crawling cameras, dozens of characters, overlapping dialogue, and a belief that life was way too messy and complex for ordinary film...
ROCK 'N ROLL FANTASY CAMP The Hollywood camp that lets weekend crooners rock out with music legends will kick off a February session with Paul Stanley of Kiss and Steve Vai. SINGSTAR ROCKS! Now you can enjoy the fun of karaoke without any public embarrassment. The new PlayStation 2 game measures your tone and beat while you sing along to music videos. SINGSTAR ROCKS! Now you can enjoy the fun of karaoke without any public embarrassment. The new PlayStation 2 game measures your tone and beat while you sing along to music videos...
...serious turn with Little Children, Todd Field's tale of suburban suffocation, she's dipping her foot into her first big commercial movie since Titanic, Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday. Winslet plays Iris, a retiring English wallflower who swaps houses for Christmas with Cameron Diaz's overachieving Hollywood type. This is the first film in which Winslet has ever played who she actually is, a modern young British woman. But Iris is Winslet too. "You, I can tell, are a leading lady," the completely irresistible 90-year-old Eli Wallach chides her. "But for some reason, you're behaving...
...Your character is a hard-boiled mercenary and diamond smuggler. I saw glimpses of Steve McQueen and even a bit of Gable in your portrayal. Was it my imagination, or did anything from long-ago Hollywood inform your character in this film...
...Hollywood's sudden interest in Africa - aside from Blood Diamond, there's been recent movies including Catch a Fire, The Constant Gardener and The Last King of Scotland as well as the whole Brangelina birth...