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| Lake of fire and luxurious lambskin at Milan fashion week Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 01:10 PM PST  By Isla Binnie MILAN (Reuters) - Models stalked around a fiery lake at Roberto Cavalli and were swathed in luxurious lambskin at Bottega Veneta in Milan on Saturday for the city's biannual women's fashion week. A pattern of scarlet flames licked around the hem of a black evening gown and beaded flapper dresses reflected blue spotlights and the glow of real fire at Cavalli's show. Bottega Veneta chose powdery pink, grey and beige for shearling coats, linear crepe dresses and pleated skirts, adding the occasional flash of purple, emerald green and red. Italy's national chamber of fashion (CNMI) expects the industry to make 62.5 billion euros ($85.91 billion) in revenue in 2014, returning to sales growth after two years in decline. Full Story | Top |
| Trip Tips: And the winner is... Hollywood, home of the Oscars Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 10:53 AM PST  By Piya Sinha-Roy HOLLYWOOD (Reuters) - When Hollywood was its own little town at the start of the 20th century, it banned movie theatres and liquor, except for medicinal purposes (wink, wink). Today, Hollywood is at the crossroads of creativity and business, generating $35 billion a year at the global film box office and drawing 40 million tourists annually. It's not all debauchery and late-night clubbing in Hollywood, although there is a lot of that. Whether you are hip and gorgeous or trying to get there, an aspiring actor or couch-bound film critic, here are tips to experience Hollywood from Reuters, whose 2,600 journalists around the world offer visitors the best local insights. Full Story | Top |
| Oscar hopefuls shake different money trees on way to screen Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 09:50 AM PST  By Ronald Grover LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joe Newcomb, a failed minor league baseball player who struck it rich as a Texas chemical trader, will be among those crossing their fingers in the Dolby Theatre audience on March 2 when the Academy Awards are handed out. Newcomb financed scrappy best picture Oscar contender "Dallas Buyers Club." In the category of film financiers, he'll be joined by Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison's daughter Megan, who provided funds for "American Hustle" and "Her," by "12 Years a Slave" backer Bill Pohlad, whose family owns the Minnesota Twins baseball team, and financiers who assembled investors in Asia and the Middle East to back "The Wolf of Wall Street." There have always been oil men and others eager to invest in Hollywood, the last few years indicate they are playing an increasingly important role in financing Oscar contenders. Five of the nine films nominated for best picture this year made it to the big screen with the help of investors who are outside the Hollywood studios. Full Story | Top |
| Lawyer sues over portrayal as degenerate 'Rugrat' in 'Wolf of Wall Street' Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 09:50 AM PST By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer has sued Paramount Pictures and the makers of "The Wolf of Wall Street" for $25 million in damages, saying he is portrayed as a toupee-wearing, degenerate drug user in the Oscar-nominated film. Andrew Greene, of New York, also wants the film based on the memoir of stock swindler Jordan Belfort, to be removed from theaters. Greene claims the character of Nicky "Rugrat" Koskoff in the movie directed by Martin Scorsese was repeatedly ridiculed about his toupee and is shown as a person having no moral or ethical values. Viacom Inc-owned Paramount Pictures said it had no comment when contacted about the lawsuit. Full Story | Top |
| David O. Russell weaves Oscar pattern from his own reinvention Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 09:49 AM PST  By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the aspiring actor and actress who sits at home during awards season fantasizing that they too could be feted as an Oscar nominee or Golden Globe winner there is a simple recipe: get cast in a film by David O. Russell. The director of romance "Silver Linings Playbook" and boxing drama "The Fighter" has helped the likes of Jennifer Lawrence and Christian Bale score some of Hollywood's biggest prizes, and this year has coaxed performances worthy of four Oscar nods from the stars of his crime caper "American Hustle." If an "American Hustle" actor - which could be Lawrence, Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper - takes home a statuette on March 2, it would be the third consecutive Russell film to have an actor win Hollywood's top honors. Full Story | Top |
| Movie academy's 1st black chief sees films building diversity Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 09:43 AM PST  By Mary Milliken BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - When Cheryl Boone Isaacs presides over the Oscars on March 2, her mere presence will convey a statement on diversity in Hollywood as the first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its third woman in its 86 years. But as the head of a body that takes knocks every year at Oscar voting time for a 6,000-plus membership that is overwhelmingly white, mostly male and older, Boone Isaacs offers no quick fixes for diversifying the academy or the industry. "I believe very strongly that the entertainment and motion picture business is going to be more open and aware of different voices," Boone Isaacs told Reuters in an interview at the academy's headquarters, a large golden Oscar statuette looming in the background. She prefers to talk about voices in storytelling, rather than gender or race, and steers the conversation on diversity back to the films competing this year for Hollywood's highest honors. Full Story | Top |
| A nod to past glory, Italy's 'The Great Beauty' vies for Oscar Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 09:32 AM PST  By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As Oscar voting enters the homestretch, "The Great Beauty" gives an historical nod to the Italian films that have made the nation the most successful winner of best foreign-language film. The ambitious and visually stunning drama directed by Paolo Sorrentino recalls the likes of Federico Fellini's half-century old "La Dolce Vita" and "8 1/2" in its portrayal of Rome's high society and an artist's existential dread. "Fellini was undoubtedly a great influence on me," Sorrentino said through an interpreter from Rome before his departure for the March 2 Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Full Story | Top |
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