Word: luhrmann
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KIDMAN: I'm actually used to working this way. On Moulin Rouge! we didn't have a script. We had a picture book. That's what Baz [Luhrmann] presents to you, and then he writes and rewrites, and every weekend is choreographing something. Birth was like that too. I'd get the pages in the morning and shoot in the afternoon...
Directed by Moulin Rouge helmer Baz Luhrmann in a two-minute film first aired on TV last week, a Chanel-couture-clad Nicole Kidman plays--here's a stretch--a star fleeing the paparazzi...
...swirls, and an orchestra assaults the eardrums. Amid the chaos, Schumacher appears relaxed, even louche, as he watches the action through his monitor. He's having a good time. And he's just one of many directors out to revive the movie musical - a trend that began when Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge squeaked out a small profit in 2001, and gathered steam a year later when Rob Marshall's Chicago grossed over $170 million in the U.S. and bagged six Oscars. "Movie musicals went out of fashion for a long time," says Schumacher, "but finally it looks like they...
...atmosphere easily rivaled the show-biz frenzy of Oscar night, with hundreds of photographers and TV crews swarming into the Carrousel du Louvre, where Nicole Kidman sat with her favorite director, Baz Luhrmann. They had come to promote the Chanel No. 5 commercial they had made together, which will debut in theaters and on TV before Christmas. As a tribute to the Chanel-Hollywood hookup, the runway was covered in--big surprise--a red carpet. At either end, banks of paparazzi strained to snap a precious photo of the star, seated in the front row in a black couture jacket...
...very nice, but it felt inevitable. This is a fashion season in which commerce has triumphed over art, directors like Luhrmann and Robert Altman are making fragrance commercials, and celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Mick Jagger, Sofia Coppola and the Presley family (Priscilla, Lisa Marie and her daughter Riley Keogh) are mingling with the press at private dinner parties in Milan and Paris. The clothes--fabulous as many of them are--often seemed secondary to the loud whir of the celebrity p.r. machine...