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  • Big, beautiful and not white

    Are curvy women of color exempt from Hollywood's traditional beauty standards?
    By Tracy Clark-Flory February 16, 2007

  • Sad, but true, Hollywood story

    Rupert Everett's autobiography serves up plenty of Hollywood dish -- but even the the tastiest bits can't cover the bitterness of a fading career.
    By Sean Kennedy February 1, 2007

  • Reproduction of the rich and famous

    Forget golden statuettes. In the new, family-friendly Hollywood, the real status symbols are sonograms and diamond solitaires.
    By Daniel Harris November 20, 2006

  • Life before Mickey

    In an excerpt from Neal Gabler's massive biography of Walt Disney, the young animator arrives in Hollywood -- and gets his break.
    By Neal Gabler October 31, 2006

  • "The Return of the Player"

    In Michael Tolkin's follow-up to "The Player," Griffin Mill leaves the movie business behind -- but he's still out for blood.
    By Allen Barra October 26, 2006

  • Hollywood's coolest chicks

    Entertainment Weekly's annual look at the gentler sex turns up some good stuff.
    By Rebecca Traister October 3, 2006

  • "Hollywoodland"

    Ben Affleck plumps up and adds weight to this picture about the mysterious demise of "Superman" star George Reeves.
    By Stephanie Zacharek September 8, 2006

  • Head in the stars

    Recently it occurred to me that I know more about the celebrities I interview than I do about my own family. But admit it -- don't you, too?
    By Jancee Dunn August 22, 2006

  • What's so damn great about aging?

    Crackling good writer and "Sleepless in Seattle" director Nora Ephron gets serious about sagging necks and wrinkles, transforming her family life into fiction, and why her movies aren't as stupid or schmaltzy as people say.
    By Rebecca Traister August 8, 2006

  • What Muslim women want

    Hint: It isn't Western culture.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory June 9, 2006

  • "Invisible in Hollywood: Jewish women"

    A women's studies prof can't recall the last time she saw a richly textured Jewish female character onscreen.
    By Lynn Harris January 18, 2006

  • Katie: Better off with Tom?

    In an interview with Elle, Katie Holmes' ex reveals his inner Neanderthal.
    By Hillary Frey November 16, 2005

  • Giving "chick flicks" flack

    An L.A. Times story tackles the problematic labeling of "chick flicks."
    By Rebecca Traister November 13, 2005

  • Right Hook

    Bernadette Malone rips New York Mayor Bloomberg for coddling "mice-releasing, AIDS-spreading junior terrorists." Mark Steyn deems Elton John and Hollywood Dems "deranged." Plus: Why Buchanan loves Nader.
    By Mark Follman August 25, 2004

  • Hollywood celebs speak out in Boston

    Rob Reiner blasts Nader, while "The West Wing's" Richard Schiff says it was a mistake for the show to veer to the right.
    By Tim Grieve July 28, 2004

  • Harpooning Hollywood

    Peter Biskind talks about Harvey Weinstein, Robert Redford, his new book, "Down and Dirty Pictures," and the wild stories he can't tell about '70s Hollywood.
    By David Bowman February 2, 2004

  • Will Jake and Heath shatter Hollywood's taboo against gay sex?

    Director Ang Lee is set to cast Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain," a story of two cowboys in love. But are studios -- and audiences -- ready for a passionate big-screen kiss between men?
    By Rebecca Traister January 14, 2004

  • The suffering buzzocracy

    For movie execs used to sending beribboned boxes of the latest Christmas movies to 500 of their closest Botox artists, dog walkers and Kabbalah gurus, the pre-Oscar "screener ban" is torture.
    By Tina Brown October 23, 2003

  • DVDs are for losers

    Good movies are like good sex -- and resale-happy Hollywood has long since gone frigid.
    By Bill Maher August 28, 2003

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    When the "Seabiscuit" violins fade, these sports movies will provide hours of schmaltz-free entertainment.
    July 30, 2003

  • "Why are movies bad and how do women get dead?"

    Film critic-turned-crime writer Helen Knode on her first novel, the soul-crushing deadness of Hollywood, the greatness of "Titanic" and her relationship with husband James Ellroy.
    By Barbara O'Dair April 2, 2003

  • Out of the past

    It's easy to laugh at classic Hollywood movies. It's harder to grasp that they're America's truest and most necessary cultural heritage -- and wicked, brazen, unsentimental fun besides.
    By Charles Taylor March 25, 2003

  • Why blockbuster flicks suck

    A new documentary on the Trio cable network sums up 30 years of big budgets, blitzkrieg marketing, bad scripts and Kevin Costner.
    By Heather Havrilesky March 15, 2003

  • Hollyblog

    Are movie bloggers part of weblogging's natural evolution, or just a sign that another cool Net thing has been co-opted?
    By Alisa Weinstein February 24, 2003

  • Confessions of a celebrity lover

    They're gorgeous and they bring us endless pleasure. So why is bashing movie stars our national sport?
    By Stephanie Zacharek February 1, 2003
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