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DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitchcock's Psycho; of vasculitis; in Beverly Hills, Calif. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots...
...crews swarming into the Carrousel du Louvre, where Nicole Kidman sat with her favorite director, Baz Luhrmann. They had come to promote the Chanel No. 5 commercial they had made together, which will debut in theaters and on TV before Christmas. As a tribute to the Chanel-Hollywood hookup, the runway was covered in--big surprise--a red carpet. At either end, banks of paparazzi strained to snap a precious photo of the star, seated in the front row in a black couture jacket, a white satin scarf tied coyly around her neck...
...movie-star son George has helped raise money, but could Nick Clooney's celebrity be as much a liability as an asset in the race for Kentucky's conservative Fourth District? "[It's] Hollywood vs. the Heartland," business consultant Geoff Davis bellows on the stump. The charge of being an outsider doesn't stick easily to former newscaster Clooney, whose family has lived in the area for five generations. But if Davis brands him as too liberal on social issues, Clooney may feel like an outsider come Election...
More Wal-Mart than Tinseltown, Sinclair (headquartered on Beaver Dam Road in Hunt Valley, Maryland) hardly provides the conservative answer to Hollywood. It is however, a solidly Republican media conglomerate: its executives have given generously to GOP candidates, and one of its vice presidents doubles as a conservative on-air commentator. Its airing of Stolen Honor, produced by the former Washington Times reporter Carlton Sherwood, may be subject to federal regulations requiring networks to provide candidates with equal time...
...that,” Stone says. “It’s one of those things that was never intended to be funny, but now is really funny so it was kind of watching Thunderbirds and then kind of combining that with wanting to make fun of big Hollywood movies, big event movies, big action movies, big Bruckheimer movies...