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...need to dry-clean your tuxes, George and Denzel. Thanks to the Hollywood writers' strike, Sunday's Golden Globe Awards has shrunk from the usual celebrity bacchanal of red carpet, dinner, ceremony and after-parties to a one-hour news conference broadcast on NBC. The highly-rated Globes is the first awards show to fall victim to the strike, and February's Academy Awards may be next...
...Monday, NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), Globes producer Dick Clark Productions and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) feverishly tried to cut a deal that would have allowed the Globes to go forward without forcing actors to cross picket lines to make their acceptance speeches. But talks broke down over NBC's plan to supplement the press conference with a clips reel, a special episode of Dateline using already taped actors' interviews and an Access Hollywood-style broadcast from the after-parties with casual acceptance speeches from the revelers...
...edokko, the natives of Tokyo, have a special gift: an ability to push the envelope, to innovate, to pioneer. That was certainly true of Shu Uemura, who went from being the only man in his Tokyo beauty school class to Hollywood makeup legend to international entrepreneur. In convention-worshiping Japan, he defied convention - and made his name and fortune by doing...
Heading for Hollywood to hone his skills, he found himself filling the archetypal role of the understudy who becomes a star. The head makeup artist on the film My Geisha wasn't available and Uemura had to step in and do Shirley MacLaine's face for the movie, transforming her Caucasian features into those of a Japanese courtesan. He soon became a favorite makeup artist among Hollywood stars, including such male celebrities as Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson...
OLIVER STONE, Hollywood director, who has joined a mission led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to retrieve three hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, the nation's largest guerrilla army...