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...also clear that the tastes of the HFPA are those of official Hollywood. The films they nominated this year reflect the taste of the movie elite and their publicists. These are the pictures the industry wants to be remembered by. Until now, you hadn't seen Kate Winslet's name in this story, because she didn't win any of the critics' awards. (Though some magazine reviewer named her Best Actress of 2008.) Well, she snagged a Globe nomination for Actress - Drama in Revolutionary Road and Supporting Actress in her other December drama, The Reader; both were among the five...
...Bettie Page was the Garbo of bondage movies. Granted, Greta Garbo played Camille and Anna Karenina, while Bettie played Bettie - or, as it was usually spelled then, Betty - in five-minute, 8 mm epics with titles like Betty's Clown Dance and Dominant Betty Dances With Whip. Garbo, in Hollywood, had Irving Thalberg, the prince of MGM, as her boss and protector. Bettie had Irving Klaw. Calling himself the "King of the Pinups," Irving and his sister Paula ran a seedy Manhattan emporium called Movie Star News, which peddled celebrity glamour shots to the public and specialized photos and loops...
...team, appeared in theatricals and co-edited the literary magazine. Her grades (second highest average in the class) earned her salutatorian status on graduation day. She married Billy Neal, a good-looking football player from another school; she attended and graduated from George Peabody Teachers College, then headed for Hollywood, where in 1945 she landed a screen test at 20th Century...
...biopic, The Notorious Bettie Page, begins and ends in religious fervor. The film climaxes with its heroine being born again as a proselytizing Christian. It's an old-fashioned Hollywood resolution that couldn't be further from the sordid truth...
...Currently located on Hong Kong's Hollywood Road, Dysemevas has been showcasing the likes of clothier Yang Du (whose work is pictured) and jewelry designer Winnie Lui. Shoppers sip free cocktails while a DJ works the decks. "I wanted [Dysemevas] to be very high impact and high energy," says Poon...