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...think we're obsessed with celebrities? - Jerome Cleary, West Hollywood, Calif. I think being fascinated by others is just who we are; we're curious creatures. Hollywood is a lot like high school. Everyone was interested in what the head cheerleader was doing and what the captain of the football team was doing and if they were dating each other...
...actually played yourself in another Hollywood movie about the contest, Akeelah...
...Sure, Paul Newman made it all look easy. But as Levy reveals, his ascension up the Hollywood hierarchy was anything but. Though blessed with good luck and good looks, Newman also relied on a rigorous work ethic and a determination to overcome savage criticism. In a typically revealing aside, Levy, a film critic for the Oregonian, recalls a slap the young actor suffered early in his career. In January 1953, after being promoted from understudy to the lead role in the hit Broadway play Picnic, Newman's director told the blue-eyed actor, "You don't carry any sexual threat...
...devoted himself to philanthropy before it was fashionable, turned his back on the Oscars after being snubbed repeatedly (he went so far as to boycott a ceremony at which he was given an honorary award) and remained married to his second wife for half a century, an aberration among Hollywood couples. His was a Tinseltown success story that began strangely - with an accidental admission to an acting school Newman never applied to - and culminated in a legacy as steeped in salad dressing as it is in indelible performances. (See TIME's photo-essay "Paul Newman: His Life in Photographs...
...Classified Cheese Room: Hong Kong's Classified Cheese Room, www.classifiedfoodshops.com.hk, is tucked away on Hollywood Road outside the city's SoHo eat streets, but that doesn't stop it from luring plenty of custom with its walk-in cheese facility stocked with 40 artisanal varieties. The cheeses can be served at the Cheese Room's parent operation, the Press Room restaurant next door, or in situ - choose from casual deli tables, or a wine cellar that functions as a private dining room...