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...with her collapse. "It was the flu," she states, flatly. "My assistant was sick before me, so there was something going around. And I really didn't do a lot of partying. I went out one night with the dancers and there was this nice get-together for Planet Hollywood. But what do you do when you party? You sit there having hors d'oeuvres for an hour and then leave. It wasn't wild or anything." Maybe she's right. Perhaps it was merely a bug. But it's not hard to imagine a relapse - if not another...
...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...
Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to both Tokyo and transitory friendship with her newest film, Lost in Translation. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Suntory whiskey to the natives. There he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer who spends much of her day staring out her window in hopes of somehow finding herself within the city’s skyline. The pair are soon discovering Tokyo culture and a profundity in their friendship...
...instituted similar programs, but it has only recently made significant headway. The arrival this fall of Assistant Professor J.D. Connor ’92 and his two film theory courses, English 164, “Literature and Visuality in America” and VES 195, “Contemporary Hollywood Cinema” strengthen the case for a concentration track. Since 2000, students have been able to obtain a brochure that lists the numerous film courses—spread across various departments—offered at Harvard. The sheer number and diversity of courses that are present in this guide...
...star-studded birthday bash for the wife of a Hollywood producer at a ski resort in Vermont last week, Vito Giuliani Mussolini ’04, Eldrick Tiger Patel ’04 and Bailey C. Gonzalez ’04 chatted up Brooke Shields and her infant child. Shields pointed out her baby’s uncanny lack of facial given expressions — due perhaps to the underdeveloped musculature of her 10-month old face — speculating that “it must be due to the baby botox.” The polite giggle...