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Harsh Read On Nude Kate
1 December 2008 10:37 AM, PST
Does "The Reader" trivialize the Holocaust? The upcoming Weinstein Co. movie, directed by Stephen Daldry, stars Kate Winslet as a Nazi concentration camp guard accused of incinerating 300 Jews, and is being pushed for Oscar consideration. But the images that will stick in some viewers' memories will be full-frontal sex scenes. After a recent screening for such intellectuals as John Guare, Frank McCourt and Bartle Bull, Daldry subjected himself to a Q&A, during which art critic Charlie Finch said,
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Fabulous Lady Stands Behind Sexiest Man
30 November 2008 11:28 PM, PST
The wife of the "sexiest man alive" Hugh Jackman on his new title: "Thank God the secret is finally out." On her husband's leaner years and first big break with "X-Men," she said: "He was even sexy then."
Her dress? "From an Australian designer named Alex Perry." Black feathered cocktail bag? "Given to me free at the Academy Awards years ago."
Actress Deborra-Lee Furness Jackman is a larger-than-life blonde. Cleavage, big; hugs to Aussie pals, big; black dress with oversize stand-up collar - big statement. A passerby snapped her photo.
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By CINDY ADAMS
Director Acts Like A Dope
30 November 2008 11:21 PM, PST
Director David Fincher is not helping his movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" with his imperious ways. "We are working our asses off trying to get Oscar nominations, and he is so abusive that it's crushing," said an insider at Paramount. "Whatever we do, it's not enough." After an La screening, Fincher was rude to John Goldwyn, who was running Paramount in the early '90s when the movie, based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first in development. After Goldwyn congratulated Fincher,
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Buckleys Loved And Loathed
30 November 2008 11:21 PM, PST
Christopher Buckley - whose famous parents, William F. and Pat Buckley, died within months of each other after 57 years of marriage - is coming out with a book about them, "Losing Mom and Pop," in May - and it isn't going to be all sweetness and light.
"Writing this book may have been simply a way of spending more time with my parents before finally letting them go," Buckley, 56, tells Vanity Fair's Bob Colacello in the magazine's January issue.
"I honestly had no intention of writing about them.
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