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...knew that pictures were at least as important as words. One reason the Kennedy legacy is so durable is that much of it is pictorial--perfectly suited to the postliterate age. As a part-time Hollywood producer, Joe hired some of the world's finest photographers and technicians to capture his children on film. The stills and motion pictures--of sailing excursions off Cape Cod, touch-football games on windswept lawns--were inventoried, scene by scene, and warehoused against the day when they would prove useful...
This is a war waged block by block, house by house. If it is too much to try to battle the forces of Hollywood or Madison Avenue or the Nintendo Corp., at least you can resolve that just because the kids down the street watch unlimited TV doesn't mean your kids should too. You can enforce a curfew, assign some chores and try hard to have dinner together regularly. And then hope that the experts are right when they say that what kids mainly need is time and attention and love, none of which takes American Express...
Certainly that is what many parents are starting to do. "I had one over-the-top birthday party for my child, and I'll never do it again," says Carrie Fisher, daughter of Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds and now the mother of nine-year-old Billie. "She got an elephant, and that's all I'll have to say. It will never happen again. I felt like the biggest ass." Fisher had her epiphany when she heard her daughter bragging to a friend, "My swimming pool is bigger than yours." That prompted some new rules. Among other things, Billie...
...written by Israel Horovitz and directed by Mark Rydell: celeb struggles to overcome childhood demons, audience struggles to find the remote. It's worth seeing, though, because James Franco uncannily channels the sulky, sexy, short-lived heartthrob. Franco recalls not just Dean's recklessness and (cue E! True Hollywood Story music) his icy relationship with his father (Michael Moriarty), but also the acting craft of a phenom who lived hard and left a good-looking memory...
...supposed to happen. For my first month in India, I had avoided any contact or reference to “Bollywood,” the Indian entertainment industry based out of Bombay. At first mention you might think, “Bollywood. Very cute. A cheap imitation of Hollywood.” That is, until you realized that Bollywood churns out hundreds more movies, songs, and music videos per year than its American counterpart and runs circles around Tinseltown in terms of gross revenues. Hindi movies constantly sell out theatres, and their soundtracks are the chart-toppers at music stores...