Word: hollywoodism
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...outsize personality, had revitalized the moribund Vanity Fair and given the tweedy weekly New Yorker a pop-culture makeover. But doubt swirled around Talk from early on. In the era of niche media, many doubted whether readers wanted another major general-interest magazine, particularly one whose mix of Hollywood froth and high-minded reportage largely resembled Vanity Fair's. Its editorial vision--vaguely alluded to as starting a national "conversation"--seemed unfocused. "Tina never really talked in terms of who her audience was," said a senior staffer. "She believed that the readers would find her, rather than that she would...
...occupational hazard in Hollywood: make a film based on real-life events and, predictably, you're going to have people grousing over inaccuracies. So it is with the latest crop of fact-based dramas. A bigger mystery: what Tolkien fans did before they had Peter Jackson's movie to pick apart...
...through the fashion spread, I could see myself—a person who prefers solids to floral prints and comfy pants to full ankle-length skirts—running through the fields with Dusty, our love child hanging in a hemp sling across my chest. After seven pages of Hollywood style, this-could-be-your-life type insanity, I wanted my rocky mountain high! Yes, Dusty, this land is your land, this land is my land too….this land was made for you and me (and little Leaf). Somewhere in the same part of my brain that enjoys...
...sound like the plotline of a hackneyed Hollywood thriller, but hundreds of thousands of Americans may have already been victims of identity theft. Last year alone, the Federal Trade Commission logged more than 85,000 complaints from people whose identities had been pirated. That may only be the tip of the iceberg; some consumer advocates suggest as many as 750,000 identities are stolen each year...
...provide opportunities for their gifted son. Indeed it did. Virtually ever since, Hirschfeld has been drawing in his adopted hometown, and his caricatures of Broadway stars have become synonymous with the style and urbanity of the Big Apple. Two lustrous new books, Hirschfeld's New York and Hirschfeld's Hollywood, have just been published by Abrams. TIME recently visited Hirschfeld, 98, at his Manhattan brownstone...