Issue: August 24, 2006   (Archive)
Friday, September 10, 2010   

Position impossible, says studio
Tom Cruise's rift with Paramount reveals tensions tied to high-priced talent, writes Claire Hoffman

Movie infidelity arouses passions
In the Technicolor world of Bollywood, Indian women and men lip-sync to mushy music, dance in lush locales, and endure a few painful moments before finding undying love.


Cold streak hits Warner Bros
It may have been a bad movie summer but it's not game over yet, Alan Horn tells Claudia Eller

Film critics put to the sword
Old-style reviewers are losing their clout in the era of Internet blogs, writes Patrick Goldstein

Never the last tango for Paris
Mass-marketing maven and hotel heiress Paris Hilton continues to defy predictions of a rapidly expiring shelf life as she readies to release her self-titled debut music album while hawking products from perfumes to purses.

`Snakes on a Plane' all set to strike
To hear some punsters tell it, it's time for Hollywood to "kick asp."

Lee lets New Orleans do talking
Filmmaker Spike Lee usually says what he thinks and lets the chips fall where they may. But he grew shy the other day, telling reporters that his latest work must speak for itself.

Author tells of shame at joining SS
German Nobel prize-winning author Guenter Grass spoke of his "shame" in his first television interview since revealing that he served in the Nazis' notorious Waffen SS in the final months of World War II.

Movie stalwart Bruno Kirby dies at 57
Bruno Kirby, a veteran character actor known for playing the best friend in two of Billy Crystal's biggest comedies When Harry Met Sally and City Slickers, has died. He was 57.

Monster movie grips South Korea
A rare monster film is blazing a trail in South Korea's cinema history, drawing record audiences and bolstering a local movie industry being weaned from decades of a protective screen quota.

             


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