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Why I Hate Hollywood
Jamie Lee Curtis, Nick Nolte, Roseanne Barr, Jessica Lange, and Paul Newman tell Movieline what they hate the most about Hollywood.
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Greta Scacchi: This Year's Import
She's sleek, she's fast, she's high performance, but will Americans buy her? History suggests European-made Greta Scacchi's got a tough road ahead of her.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Total Control
Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't get where he is by accident. And he sure as hell isn't going to let any accidents happen now.
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Whatever happened to...
If the Tinseltown axiom "You're only as good as your last picture" is true, then where are you now if your last picture was Next of Kin? The following four actors were all once-promising talents who, in coming months, have new movies coming out. But we're wondering--can it possibly make a difference?
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Sean Young: Dancing on the Edge
She taps, she talks, she refuses to play it safe. Sean Young is hell-bent on having her say on James Woods, Warren Beatty and almost everyone else she's worked with...
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Screenwriters: 20/20 Vision
We asked 20 top screenwriters, from Robert Benton and William Goldman to Cameron Crowe and Daniel Waters, to name a favorite screenplay
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Ernest Lehman: The Reluctant Screenwriter
The man who wrote West Side Story, North by Northwest, and The Sounds of Music has rebuffed all screenwriting offers for 13 years. Has Earnest Lehman become the J. D, Salinger of Hollywood?
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Warren Beatty: Dick Does Tinseltown
It only took Warren Beatty 15 years, 10 directors, 4 studios, and 1 lawsuit--not to mention over $30 million-- to bring his version of Dick Tracy to the screen. Here's how it happened:
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Bad Movies We Love: Portrait in Black
Lana Turner churned out nothing but celluloid cheese after the scandal over her daughter Cheryl's stabbing to death Mom's gangster lover in 1958--and Portrait In Black is Lana's four-course Velveeta banquet.
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Johnny Depp: Johnny Handsome
Can Johnny Depp, TV's tattooed teen idol with the best cheekbones since Gene Tierney, make the leap to the big time with outré movies like Cry-Baby and Edward Scissorhands--or is this just his 15 minutes of fame?
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Greg Gorman: Prints of Darkness
Greg Gorman's moody portraits of Ryder, Beatty, Dillon, Basinger, and Rourke capture the mixed blessings of beauty.
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Easy Rider: Dancin' in the Streets
"If these production members of the film Easy Rider were to go into their dance on any other street in the world, they might be considered crazy," reads the caption on the back of this shot taken at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1969, "but here at Cannes, onlookers realize they are 'acting out' the spirit of things that prevails during the International Film Festival now taking place."
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Bio-Musicals: Interrupted Melodies
At long last, Hollywood is filming both the Jim Morrison and Josephine Baker bio-musicals, and more are in the works: Bobby Darin, Otis Redding, Libby Holman, Tina Turner, Rodgers & Hart. While hoping for the best, can we be blamed for fearing tie worst?
