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...downtown Beirut has the look of an old-time movie palace, which seemed appropriate on Tuesday as a steady stream of armored black luxury cars disgorged the country's politicians, who walked up the steps through a gauntlet of journalists as if they were actors at a high-security red-carpet ceremony. As it happened, however, the show was a dud. Meeting for the first time in over nine months, Lebanon's parliament opened today for a special session to elect a president of the republic, and then almost immediately shut down without a vote. Lebanon's political crisis continues...
What began nearly two decades ago as a tiny shop bearing her name on Madison Avenue has become Vera Wang the corporation. Her name is synonymous with fashionable brides' and bridesmaids' dresses. Her evening gowns are red-carpet staples. After an early venture into ready-to-wear proved a critical and commercial disappointment in 2001, she made a risky second dive in with great success?she was named Womenswear Designer of the Year by the CFDA in 2005. She has since launched a younger, secondary line, Lavender, and this fall teams up with Kohl's to launch a mass-market...
...that red-carpet glamour, and the hope of a first look at next year's Oscar finalists, attracts audiences to the big-ticket galas and special presentations. It also lures a sizable number of other power brokers: Hollywood execs, for whom Toronto has become a crucial harbinger of the movie-award season, and U.S. film critics, avid to see grown-up pictures after a fast-food summer diet of action epics with numerals...
...giving the world an unblinking, and often unflattering, view of celebrity shenanigans. "We report things as soon as we learn them and can confirm them," the website's general manager, Alan Citron, says. "I think that and the unvarnished nature of our coverage, which isn't the standard red-carpet grip-and-grin, has made us stand out in the crowd...
...watching the stars at Cannes has made you long for a red-carpet experience of your own, you don't have to fly to the South of France. The number of homegrown film festivals has exploded over the past decade, from about 100 in the early 1990s to more than 600 today. --By Lisa McLaughlin...