Agent 99 gets tough in ‘Get Smart’
She got to wear great clothes and be the kick-ass funny girl on the set. So what more could a girl want?
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Anna Stewart
Downey Jr. gets his shot at heroism
It's not like Hollywood was knocking on Robert Downey Jr.'s door saying, "We want to ride millions on you. Here's the Golden Ticket. Please be our Iron Man."
Dapper suits make red carpet studs
When it comes to tuxes, men no longer have to look like monkeys in monkey suits. Finally they are getting fashionable and this is the year when it all comes together.
Costume designers tart up the past
That quick-on-the-draw demon barber of Fleet Street kept his trusty razor in a Western-style holster. Virgin queen Elizabeth ruled and raced through England's castle corridors in Balenciaga-inspired…
The Price of Sugar
Thousands of dispossessed Haitians toil in Dominican Republic sugarcane fields under the watch of armed guards. The pic tracks the travails of Spanish priest Hartley as he attempts to organize these…
The Rape of Europa
Based on Lynn Nicholas' book of the same name, the film lays out the theft and destruction -- and hard-won survival -- of some of Europe's art treasures during the Third Reich and World War II…
Actors sound off on playing real people
Actors sound off on where their imagination, or someone else's, came into play.
Even TV dramas need comedy
Comedy is hard. Tragedy is easy. Especially when it comes to casting. When those jokes fall flat, they fall flat. It's deadly. Simply put, finding the right comedic actor for a television comedy…
Film, TV casting directors talk talent
When a top film-casting director, Joseph Middleton ("Mr. & Mrs. Smith," "The Heartbreak Kid"), gets together with a top television casting director, Rick Millikan ("Shark," "Bones"), what do they…
An ‘Idol’ who wows critics, auds
What Broadway tuners did Fantasia absolutely love before she was approached to star in 'The Color Purple'? "She had never seen a Broadway show or a musical or any theater in her entire life until we…
Black-tie fete for top gun Tom Cruise
Sumner Redstone probably won't be there. But everyone else will. Tom Cruise will be honored tonight by the Museum of the Moving Image at its annual black-tie salute, to be held this time at…
