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The Jersey Shore cast gets even more dramatic.  BLOG POSTED: 03/05/10

The story of Jay-Z’s rise from Brooklyn street hustler to the pinnacle of the music industry is one as old as America itself. But what the artist formerly known as Shawn Carter has done since he’s reached the top has been more about making history than living it down  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/14/10

Is he almost single-handedly keeping alive the spirit of the stylishly international cineaste
auteur? Or do his Quirky, ­Soulful, intricately art-directed films and custom-tailored corduroy suits just make it seem that way?  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/26/09

Sex! Violence! Espionage! Her icy, cool beauty has never failed to turn heads, but with her performance as a German actress-turned-secret agent in Quentin Tarantino’s fantastical new World War II epic Inglourious Basterds, Diane Kruger is opening a lot of eyes.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/01/09

Inglourious Basterd bit-player Paul Rust on Quentin Tarantino, Christoph Waltz, Iowa, and the many kinds of success and failure in Hollywood.  BLOG POSTED: 08/28/09

Mark Hartley's documentary, Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!, takes a gleeful look back at the Australian movement that spawned Mad Max. Prepare for naked women, psycho drifters, half-baked ideas, nearly unkillable stuntmen, and some astoundingly bad special effects.  BLOG POSTED: 07/30/09

Stephen Dorff has spent more than 20 years in Hollywood playing people on the fringe, including a mystical peacemaker, a transgender superstar, and even the fifth Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe. Now he’s ready to be front and center—just in time to take on the role of a burnt-out A-list actor in Sofia Coppola’s next project.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/27/09

French actress Mélanie Laurent was hard at work buying knickers for a porno film when Quentin Tarantino called to confirm that she’d landed a part in his spell-check unfriendly World War II extravaganza Inglourious Basterds.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/08/09