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...Says Mann: "I wanted to insert you into the stream of this man's life, orient you without doing it in a blatant way with exposition." Ali is pleased with Mann's approach. "It was better than I thought it would be," he said after attending the movie's Hollywood premiere...
...implicit, populist message to viewers: Fox News doesn't think it's better than you (unless you're the competition). It is not handing down news on tablets; it is not ashamed to look like Access Hollywood. Its on-air talent is colloquial--"Slammed on the floor!" said a reporter describing Janet Reno's public fainting spell last week, as if she had been upended by The Rock--with less patrician polish than traditional newscasts. It's a far cry from William F. Buckley--a conservative haven that appeals to social-class resentment. O'Reilly, the highest-rated host...
...later success as a singer in musicals and as an author; in Berlin. Perhaps best known for her role in Germany's first movie after the war, Die M?rder Sind Unter Uns (The Murderers Are Among Us), the versatile blond leading lady went by the name Hildegard Neff in Hollywood, where she starred with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, internationally renowned Swedish author of more than 70 children's books, including the now classic Pippi Longstocking; in Stockholm. Lindgren originally conceived the tale of the feisty red-haired heroine...
...sections of the film fall flat and stay on the surface of the issue that is at the heart of his filmmaking: exploitation. Storytelling is a misstep for Solondz, but even on his off days, he is still a more provocative and fascinating filmmaker than any of the hacks Hollywood has to offer. Hopefully his concern with the critical reception of his work rather than the work itself will be flushed out his system. But hope is something we shouldn’t anticipate in a future Solondz movie...
...Like in Hollywood, notoriety is often synonymous with popularity in our skewed social scene. We love to despise, and the despised revel in the glory of their infamy. And, so, Pomey and Gomes may have triumphed after all: they tainted our noble institution, a la Monica Lewinsky, they skirted the law, a la Heidi Fleiss, and they arrogantly believed that they could get away with it, a la O.J. Simpson, to become genuine household—or at least dormitory—names. They’re not just “almost famous” anymore, and the trial...