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Get your ice picks out -- will there be a 'Basic Instinct 3'?
Liz Smith"THERE'S NO smoking in this building, ma'am." "What are you going to do, arrest me for smoking?" So it went between murder suspect Sharon Stone and the detectives grilling her in 1992's "Basic Instinct." Moments later Sharon briefly uncrossed her legs...Tags: Weddings, Cirque du Soleil, Neverland Ranch, Demi Moore, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Good Morning, Cannes: DiCaprio Shines, Spielberg's on Jury Duty, and Everybody Gets Wet
ReutersMay 16 (TheWrap.com) - It rained on Baz Luhrmann's parade as the Cannes Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night, but the heavy showers that fell on the Croisette as luminaries arrived for the opening-night screening of "The Great Gatsby" didn't appear...Tags: Film Festivals, Celebrities, Steven Spielberg, Isla Fisher, Carey Mulligan
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'Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's' Review: Glitzy Doc Gives Label Names the Floor Space
ReutersMay 03 (TheWrap.com) - A documentary so loving and unquestioning of its subject that it could play on permanent loop in the shoe department, "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's" is an unabashed valentine to one of Manhattan's preeminent temples of commerce....Tags: Giorgio Armani S.P.A., Arthur (movie), Proenza Schouler, Marchesa, Isaac Mizrahi
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Tom Hanks a shoo-in for a Tony
Liz Smith"When you start a column, you're in a very creative state; you're building a personality in a piece of writing. It's a strange kind of business. After a while the column becomes a tyrant. You've created a personality that is one aspect of yourself, and it...Tags: Michael Landes, Tom Hanks, Celebrities, NBC (tv network), Pulitzer Prize Awards
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'I'll Eat You Last' chronicles Sue Mengers' old Hollywood
A Hollywood striver in the 1970s would have learned oodles from Sue Mengers — how to woo a client, sass a studio exec, host a dinner party, smoke a joint. And, had she pulled up a seat in Mengers' Beverly Hills living room one particularly gloomy...
Tags: Chinatown (movie), Gladiator (movie), Skyfall (movie), New York City, Hugo (movie)
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...
Tags: Passover, Richard Burton, Amour (movie), Avatar (movie), Steven Spielberg
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The Cinematheque celebrates the beauty of film
The American Cinematheque welcomes 2013 with "Motion Picturesque: Cinema at Its Most Beautiful" festival, which shines the spotlight on the visual splendor of motion pictures. The series opens Thursday at the Egyptian with Fritz Lang's influential...
Tags: Goodfellas (movie), Christopher Nolan, Jean Harlow, Celebrities, Kon-Tiki (movie)
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Remembering a different version of Larry Hagman
The Baltimore SunI wasn't going to write about Larry Hagman, who died Friday in Texas at age 81 from complications of cancer. Even though I had reported on him and reviewed much of his work over the years, as well as doing an interview with him during a party at his...Tags: Henry Fonda, Homeland (tv program), Moscow (Russia), Dallas 2011 (tv program), Larry Hagman
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Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures
In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...
Tags: Film Festivals, Joe Wright, Tom Tykwer, Tom Hanks, Rust and Bone (movie)
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'Argo' director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture
In the last shot of Ben Affleck's "Argo" — relax, there are no spoilers here — the camera pans slowly along the shelves of toys in a young boy's bedroom. The year is 1980; the film spends most of its time on the true story of how a CIA...
Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Celebrities, Circumstance (movie), Kevin Costner, Matt Damon
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Frank Pierson, former AMPAS prexy, dies
VarietyFrank Pierson, the Oscar-winning writer of "Dog Day Afternoon," former president of the Academy of Motion Pictures & Sciences and a consulting producer on "Mad Men" as recently as this past season, died Monday after a short illness in Los Angeles. He...Tags: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Alcoa Incorporated, Phil Alden Robinson, Executive Branch
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Friday Forecaster: Broadway Star Antonique Smith
PIX11.comAntonique Smith is most famous for her starring role of Faith Evans in "Notorious" where she received rave reviews. The LA Times called her "delicious in the role" and Rolling Stone Mag said she was "terrific". She was also praised by critics, including...Tags: Whitney Houston, Taylor Lautner, Nas, Lincoln Center, Culture
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