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Rooney Mara’s Newest Role: The Girl Who Modeled for Calvin Klein? 27 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
When we weren’t paying attention, Rooney Mara became the face of Calvin Klein’s new perfume, “Downtown,” as well as the muse of Brazilian fashion designer Francisco Costa, who has dressed her for the ...
Books on the Boob Tube: 10 New Fall Shows Based on Books 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Looks like television scriptwriters have been hitting the books: this fall, plenty of new dramas and comedies on both network and cable have literary roots. Network executives are notoriously risk-ave...
Full ‘Divergent’ Trailer Starring Shailene Woodley Thrills MTV Audiences 27 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
Viewers enjoying the MTV Video Music Awards show Sunday night got their first solid look at “Divergent,” a movie starring Shailene Woodley, directed by Neil Burger and based on author Veronica Roth’s ...
Infamous ‘Black Dahlia’ Murder Case Has a New Suspect 26 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
The infamous Black Dahlia murder case — the subject of James Ellroy’s 1987 novel, which was adapted to film by Brian De Palma — may have just been re-opened. A California man has reported that he beli...
Angelina Jolie’s ‘Unbroken’ Finds Its Survivors 23 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
With filming scheduled to begin next month, director Angelina Jolie is pulling together the main cast for her adaptation of Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 bestseller Unbroken: A World War ...
ImageMovers Acquires Elizabeth L. Silver’s ‘The Execution Of Noa P. Singleton’ 23 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
The film rights to first-time author Elizabeth L. Silver’s best-selling murder mystery The Execution of Noa P. Singleton have been acquired by producer/director Robert Zemeckis’ studio, ImageMovers. ...
Steve Martin and Kermit the Frog Play ‘Dueling Banjos’ 23 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
It’s the 21st century and you think you’ve seen everything, but what you haven’t seen is Steve Martin challenging Kermit the Frog to the “Dueling Banjos” duet immortalized in the film version of James...
Ma Sharona: Golden Globe Winner Sharon Stone Still Revolutionary 22 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
In 1997, Rachel Whiteread, the first female artist to snatch Britain’s prestigious Turner prize, cast the undersides of one hundred chairs in dusty pastel resin as her contribution to Charles Saatchi’...
Marion Cotillard Replaces Natalie Portman in ‘Macbeth’ 22 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
I was never crazy about the idea of Natalie Portman playing opposite Michael Fassbender in the new “Macbeth” film, but on the heels of “Black Swan” I was interested to see what the performance might b...
From the Vault: ‘Angels and Insects’ by A.S. Byatt, Starring Mark Rylance 22 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
A.S. Byatt’s Angels and Insects is split into two novellas, Morpho Eugina and The Conjugal Angel. Set in the mid-nineteenth century Victorian era, the two interconnecting stories focus on the physical...
