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...show opens with grainy home movies projected on the façade of a suburban brick house. Out walks a grownup version of the kid in the films: Billy Crystal. For the next two hours and 20 minutes, he reminisces about that house where he grew up, learned how to hit a curveball, discovered masturbation, entertained his relatives with off-color jokes stolen from the Catskills and spent 700 Sundays with his father--the approximate number the two had together, he figures, before his dad died of a heart attack at the bowling alley when Billy was just...
Sometimes it can be a total, like, downer to be a superfamous millionaire college kid with your own clothing line. New York University frosh MARY-KATE and ASHLEY OLSEN were probably looking forward to their inaugural protest march--but not to having it directed at them. The National Labor Committee took the twins to task over maternity leave-- or, rather, the lack of it--for the women in Bangladesh who sew their Wal-Mart clothing line. The school newspaper suggested the student government censure the celebs, and a march was organized. When presented with a pledge guaranteeing pregnant women time...
...this suits him to play Howard Hughes, who was an enigma even more than he was a tycoon. A pampered rich kid, Hughes made millions in the aviation and hotel industries. As Hollywood's longest resident outsider, he directed the terrific aerial epic Hell's Angels and produced two films that defined their genres for decades: the newspaper comedy The Front Page and the gangster saga Scarface. When he wasn't flying planes, and crashing them, he was wooing glamour gals Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. Best of all, Hughes was a full-time eccentric who finally achieved a madness...
...ideas with people, giving the movie time to breathe--that's like complete heaven for me." He spent plenty of time preparing to play Hughes. "I don't know what he's talking about with this 10 seconds of focus stuff," says Scorsese, and laughs. "Don't let him kid you--he's incredibly thorough." DiCaprio read thousands of pages of Hughes biographies, watched old newsreel footage and spent days with obsessive-compulsive-disorder expert Dr. Jeffrey Schwarz, but is so conditioned to tamp down interest in himself that he is reluctant to discuss it. "Trust me, dawg," he says...
Director Dan Harris is 25. Was it odd taking orders from a kid...