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You May Know Me from Such Roles as Terrorist #4
It's Hollywood's ugliest casting problem: Jon Ronson talks to seven Muslim-American actors, a group earning virtually their entire livings pretending to hijack planes and slaughter infidels.
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You May Know These Muslim-American Actors From Such Roles as Terrorist #4
You've heard of actors getting typecast. But there is no group more slighted, more narrowly cast, than the Muslim-American actors who earn virtually their entire livings pretending to hijack planes and slaughter infidels. Jon Ronson embarks on a soul-searching odyssey with the bad guys of Homeland, American Sniper, 24, and every other TV show and movie in which the holy warriors get mowed down before they even get to finish one good “Allahu Akbar!”
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Hullywod Boulevard
“Hollywood lighting” calls to mind dreamy high-contrast glamour shots and unattainably lustrous skin, but the actual light in Hollywood is unforgiving. By Erin Sheehy.
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The Mathematics of Body Shape -- The Secret Lives of Triangles in Hollywood
Are digital human actors going to take over the big screen? What is the technology behind digital bodies? What is body shape? How can we model it? How can we animate it?
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How Lena Horne Escaped Hollywood’s Blacklist
At the height of her career, the beautiful young performer accidentally stumbled into a power struggle between Hollywood communists and McCarthyites. By John Meroney.
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Ingrid Bergman’s Great Sacrifice for Cinematic Art
Bergman went further than did any other actor, before or since, in order to work with a true cinematic artist, Roberto Rossellini.
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Inside the Agent Raid That Changed Hollywood in One Day
When UTA raided CAA, poaching 10 top talent reps in less than 24 hours, it did more than set off a conflict that threatens to draw in every agency in town, it shined a light on a dark truth: Bankable stars, like oil, are a vanishing resource. By Maer Roshan.
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Citizen Kane’s follow-up: The greatest sequel never made?
In honour of Orson Welles’ death 30 years ago, his friend film-maker Henry Jaglom tells the colourful story of their attempt to make a ‘bookend’ to the greatest American film.
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10 Bad People Besides Bill Cosby Whose Stars Will Never Be Removed From the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Ever since it was revealed that beloved sitcom star and fatherly figure Bill Cosby had admitted to giving Quaaludes to women he wanted to have sex with — accusations of which had been floating around for years — his image has been shattered. In its wake, activists are demanding that he be stripped of his official accolades: President Obama has been called upon to revoke Cosby's Presidential Medal of...
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The Radical Courage of Silent Movie Stuntwomen
How the physical feats of silent movie actresses helped make the case for women's liberation. By Molly Gregory.
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The Art of Flying in the Movies
A cinematic history of going airborne. By A. O. Scott.
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Johnny Depp named Hollywood's most overpaid actor
Johnny Depp has been named the most overpaid movie star in Hollywood by Forbes magazine after posting a string of box office turkeys. Depp, one of the highest-paid actors on the planet with estimated annual earnings of $30m (£20m), returned just $1.20 for every $1 he was paid according to the financial magazine’s metric. His poor position is due to the financial failure of movies such as Mortdecai, Transcendence and The Lone Ranger...
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Leonardo Di Caprio: 'I turned down the chance to play Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars'
Leonardo Di Caprio has revealed that he once turned down the chance to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels. The actor confirmed that he met with George Lucas to discuss taking the role in Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith. The part eventually went to Hayden Christensen.
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This Theory Perfectly Explains Why 'The Hobbit' Movies Were So Bad
And it makes a lot of sense.
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Box Office: 'Star Wars: Force Awakens' Tops 'Avatar' to Become No. 1 Film of All Time in North America
It's official: J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the highest-grossing film of all time in North America, not accounting for inflation. On Wednesday, the Disney and Lucasfilm mega-blockbuster will overtake the $760.5 million earned by James Cameron's Avatar. Force Awakens — which grossed $8 million on Tuesday for a domestic total of $758.2 million — will have achieved the milestone in only 20 days in release, a remarkable feat.
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The Big Cigar
How Bert Schneider, a well-heeled Hollywood producer with a coke problem and a soft spot for radical politics, smuggled Huey Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers who was awaiting trial on a murder charge, into Cuba in 1974. By Joshuah Bearman. (Dec. ’12)
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The Mogul of the Middle
In the era of comic-book franchises and shrinking profits, an upstart studio wants to reinvent the movie industry. By Tad Friend.
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Actor Dan Haggerty, TV's 'Grizzly Adams,' dies at 73
Actor Dan Haggerty of “Grizzly Adams” fame died early Friday of cancer, said his longtime friend and manager Terry Bomar. He was 73.
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All Def Digital Rolls Out the Black Carpet
Russell Simmons’s new-media company hosts its own movie-awards show, a D.I.Y. response to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign.
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Where’s Richard Simmons? Twisted mystery has friends concerned
Richard Simmons opened his front door, frail and trembling. Mauro Oliveira, a visual artist who was also Simmons’ masseur and former assistant, greeted him on the front porch, concerned about his friend. After receiving an ominous phone call from Simmons, Oliveira had driven his truck to the Hollywood Hills, past the two metal gates that Simmons had left ajar for him, and into the driveway. He reached the porch through...
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