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...Hollywood decides to love its rebels when they've either died or outlasted most of their enemies. Altman managed to stick around long enough, and return investments to enough small businesses in Tinseltown, to get his tribute at the Academy Awards ceremony this March. Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin introduced him with a beautifully executed double monologue, overlapping their lines in the fashion Altman had made famous in most of his 42 feature films - most notably MASH, the 1970 war comedy that spawned the (much more domesticated and liberal) TV series M*A*S*H, and remains the film that...
Assess your celebrity intelligence quotient with this week's assortment of Tinseltown testosterone and other offscreen exploits...
...everywhere, yet again.Just take a quick look at “Raising Malawi,” Madonna’s latest project. Every aspect has been carefully tailored to provoke discussion, disagreement, and comment—in short, media attention. Soon enough, it will be the talk of Tinseltown, with its very own “Livestrong”-style bracelet.The keystone of “Raising Malawi” is the creation of an “orphan care center” meant to provide 4,000 children with the bare essentials of life, i.e. healthy food, a proper...
...something where we lead the way in terms of where the film industry is going," says Cruise's producing partner Paula Wagner. The private-equity model has suffered some high-profile failures, like this year's big-budget flop Poseidon, but new investors continue to rush to Tinseltown. In September, Flyboys, at $60 million one of the most financially ambitious and risky films funded entirely by private investors, lands in theaters. With expensive period sets and complex aerial battle scenes, the producers kept the film about World War I flying aces on budget by scrimping on one thing: the movie...
...show sends up the usual Tinseltown types, but Kightlinger thoroughly rounds out Jackie, giving her the kind of drawling feminist sarcasm rarely seen since Roseanne left sitcomdom. Cynical yet principled, bitter but still ambitious, Jackie wants to conquer Hollywood yet not be of it. (She refuses, for instance, to drive.) She's the kind of tough, tart 21st century broad you would expect to idolize a '30s Derby queen: she's armed with a Billy Wilder wit and unafraid to throw elbows. And it's refreshing to see a sitcom about a woman past her 20s who is obsessed with...