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...Sunday afternoon in Hollywood, black limos will arrive one after another for the 82nd Academy Awards, their glamorous passengers spilling out into a rich and stunning celeb parade. It is so rich and stunning that mere mortals have to be corralled along a separate, parallel red carpet - and even these also-rans must be prodded along by security to avoid carpet gawkers...
...like so many aspects of modern life, the red carpet industry away from Oscar Sunday is struggling to find its niche in a changing world marked by media fragmentation and oversaturation. Once an iconic symbol, the carpet has lost several shades of its crimson hue in a town that now sees about four red-carpet events a night. "It used to be a rare thing and people used to get excited about the red carpet, but now the mystique is gone," says Hollywood publicist Ben Russo, of EMC/Bowery, a player on the Hollywood party scene. "It's way too oversaturated...
...sheer numbers of carpets - West Hollywood even features a yogurt store with a full-time red carpet decoration near the toppings section - is just one of the problems facing the once regal red. A bigger issue is that the celebrity rules have changed, and these rules are being played out on the red carpet frontier...
...miniseries is based on two evocative World War II memoirs, Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed and Robert Leckie's Helmet for My Pillow, but the imaginative energy comes straight from novels like Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones' The Thin Red Line. The result is like Herman Wouk's The Winds of War (both the novel and the made-for-TV movie) on steroids. Hanks and fellow executive producers Spielberg and Gary Goetzman are wrestling with age-old - and current - questions about the barbarity of war: How can Americans ask our young...
...even get to that point, the Crimson will still have to take care of business against the Golden Knights and either the Big Red or the Engineers. Neither game will be easy—two are top-10 teams in the country, the other is coming off a five-overtime win over Quinnipiac in the longest NCAA women’s hockey game in history...