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...perhaps above all is the need to rationalize the weirdness of celebrity. Fame is like a superpower, conferred near instantly on once ordinary people, unless you're a royal or a Minnelli. Celebrities can make us pay good money to watch movies based on TV shows we wouldn't watch for free in reruns. They change our clothes and haircuts. They even get us to buy--God help us--puggles. You should be grateful that Sharon Stone and Tom Hanks merely ask you to join the fight against AIDS. They could just as easily command you to build a pair...
...Indian films are like no other: a churning blend of epic conflict and cootchy choreography, of Sergio Leone and Vincente Minnelli ... This is the world's busiest movie industry. IN BOMBAY THEY CALL IT BOLLYWOOD, AND IT PUTS HOLLYWOOD TO SHAME: MORE THAN 700 FILMS A YEAR (ROUGHLY THREE TIMES THE NUMBER PRODUCED BY THE MAJOR HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS) in the nation's 16 official languages ... Western viewers expecting the delicate art films of Satyajit Ray will be in for a pleasant shock. Most Indian films are closer to the populist energy and intimate audience connection of Hong Kong films...
...because, although his office building off the highway in Austin, Texas, is lined with framed posters of French auteur Jean-Luc Godard movies, Richard Linklater is not a film snob. He just likes to make movies. "I would have loved to have been a '40s studio director like Vincente Minnelli. You ended up with a real diverse career," says Linklater. "Now you don't get a call from Darryl Zanuck saying, 'Come do this movie on Monday.' So you have to do it on your own." He has already checked off teen flick (Dazed and Confused), western (The Newton Boys...
...LIZA MINNELLI was sued by former bodyguard M'Hammed Soumayah. HE SAYS she beat him and coerced him into sex. In a countersuit, SHE SAYS he's in breach of contract and fiduciary duty...
...Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb, who died this past month [MILESTONES, Sept. 27], collaborated with composer John Kander on a remarkable string of theatrical successes. They first teamed up on Broadway with the 1965 musical Flora, the Red Menace, starring Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland's daughter. In a cover story on Liza, TIME described Ebb's musical connection with...