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...accent so often imitated that the real thing sounds like someone goofing on Ahhnold. He speaks informally-there is no hortatory political baloney to him-but we are not really having a conversation. The Governor of California has his lines, and he recites them, just as he did onscreen, with a knowing, ironic clumsiness. All of which tends to undercut his current message, which is quite radical. After a year of trying to negotiate with his state legislature and succeeding less than he had hoped, Schwarzenegger is going to war against the special interests-especially the public employees' unions-that...
Life on American Idol has been downright off-key lately. First, an onscreen phone-number foul-up forced Fox to give viewers a second chance to vote. Then Idol judge Paula Abdul was fined and placed on probation for a hit-and-run accident (no one was injured) that happened on a California freeway last December. The good news is that Idol is TV's top-rated show, drawing more than 25 million viewers a pop. Maybe Miss Rush, Rush can spring for a limo...
...March 7 episode of the sitcom Two and a Half Men, creator Chuck Lorre inserted a statement, which flashed onscreen for a second, protesting that CBS had made him trim a scene that showed the naked back of a young woman--a common enough sight on crime dramas and, say, shampoo commercials. "My problem," he wrote, "is knowing that I work in an industry, or perhaps I should say a culture, that is more comfortable showing a dead naked body than a live one." Says David Nevins, president of Imagine Entertainment Television, which produces 24 and Arrested Development: "The climate...
Oscar night is the one evening each year when actresses have parity in Hollywood. Now that it's over, female stars can return to playing patient wives or waiting for an agent's call. Or, for real wallowing, seeing a movie from the era when women onscreen were equal or superior to men. Here are six upcoming diva DVDs to glamorize your evenings--and to make every modern actress want to pour herself another vodka hemlock...
...stunted Alexander and kitschy Spider-Man 2, audiences were desperate for a reminder of why they go to movies in the first place. Scorsese delivered, creating lovingly detailed sets, momentous speeches, and an electric dynamic between star Leonardo DiCaprio and scene-stealer Cate Blanchett, who resurrects Katharine Hepburn onscreen...