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...greatest. There’s Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon ’47 is close by, and of course, there’s Marilyn. Sure, they may just be DVD projections on the screen behind the stage at the Brattle Theater. But what matters now is the old-school Hollywood glamour that the Origins makeup representatives are transmitting through brushes and blushes, through powders and poufs, at Tuesday’s “Get Made Up with Marilyn” event...
...there were a dog bites man channel (Slogan: "News of the obvious, 24 hours a day!"), its top stories last week would have been HOLLYWOOD ACCUSED OF LIBERALISM and TV EXECUTIVES CRAVENLY BUCKLE UNDER PRESSURE. CBS canceled The Reagans, a four-hour mini-series, after conservative activists and pundits said it made Ronald Reagan out to be a ninny and a bigot. If one is to judge from selective quotes that made the press, the critics seemed to have a point. (The series reportedly had the President say about gay AIDS victims, "They that live in sin shall...
...York Times--they apparently thought that was more or less what they got. The irony is, they were trying to pander to Reagan's fans; they just proved spectacularly bad at it. But if CBS's executives were not floating in the warm, like-minded liberal womb of Hollywood, it might have occurred to them earlier that The Reagans might crease a few lapels at the Republican National Committee...
Then there's Hollywood, where Ford has a home and a lot of connections. "He's always said he wanted to produce movies," said Burt Tansky, president and CEO of the Neiman Marcus Group. "Arnold Schwarzenegger's old job is open. He could be Tom the Terminator...
...partake in what until recently has been a celebrity best-kept secret. Founded by Dean and David Factor?grandsons of makeup legend Max Factor?SmashBox cosmetics were created specifically to withstand hot lights at the brothers' Los Angeles photography studios. The premises were practically a drop-in center for Hollywood royalty?Johnny Depp, Jodie Foster and Demi Moore have all been photographed there?and for them the brothers devised homemade antishine creams, indelible lip gels and "artificial-light luminizing lotion" (touted by the company as "like having your own personal lighting crew"). It wasn't long before these industry-only...