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...Burbank, Calif. As a jazz-obsessed high school student, she ignored her teachers' insistence that girls should stick to the violin and piano and took sax lessons from a local musician. Gilbert upped her national profile in 1937, when her all-girl band opened the Second Hollywood Swing Concert at Los Angeles' storied Palomar Ballroom, sharing billing with fellow bandleaders Benny Goodman and Louis Prima. A year later she wrote a famous, widely hailed response to a Down Beat magazine article that had detailed the inferiority of the fairer sex. Her commentary cemented her reputation as an influential advocate...
Video résumés have long tickled imaginations in Hollywood (can a blond legally apply to Harvard via VHS?) without making much of a dent in the real world. Enter Aleksey Vayner. The Yale student submitted his video résumé, titled Impossible Is Nothing, to investment bank UBS last fall. It became a YouTube classic, while its karate-chopping, tennis-acing, deep-thought-having star became the joke of Wall Street. But another funny thing happened: Vayner's vanity creation awakened recruiters and job seekers to the possibilities of marrying the video CV to the Internet--and that may just...
...three “American Pie” films, as well as creating the “Project Greenlight” television series with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Moore didn’t study film at Harvard, but he cites it as an important launchpad for his Hollywood career. “I got into television production when I was at Harvard. Harvard was very important in that I met most of my contacts who gave me my first jobs and who I now work with,” Moore says.It was also at Harvard that Moore first...
...Little Children” should have been nominated for Best Picture over the overwrought “Babel,” and “Letters” star Ken Watanabe’s Best Actor snub is a terrible omission, especially in a year when Hollywood is pretending to care about international films. The Academy ignored many critics’ international favorites as well. Where is French writer-directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Palm d’Or winner “L’Enfant” nomination? Where is Romanian director Cristi Puiu?...
...very similar scene played out this week in real-life Hollywood, a place where Democratic politics is a very high-stakes business. For more than a decade, the entertainment industry's elite has been in the thrall of Bill and Hillary Clinton, pouring millions into their campaigns. But now there's a new "it" pol on the scene. Senator Barack Obama had his Tinseltown premiere Tuesday night at a glittering $1.3 million fund raiser thrown by DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Moneymen who brought in at least $46,000 got a "private" dinner with the candidate...