Cecil B. DeMille News
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Time Warner Inc.’s “Argo” won Golden Globes for best drama and best director, beating “Lincoln” and shaking up the competition for next month’s Academy Awards.
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In 1907, Bonito, Italy, 9-year-old Salvatore Ferragamo could often be found intently watching the town cobbler tan leather skins, cut patterns, shape them around a wooden foot-shaped “last” and stitch the pieces together.
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“I lived with my mother intimately for 22 years and never saw the furniture. On every piece of furniture was a sheet to keep the dust off.”
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Had Cecil B. DeMille been a painter, his canvases would look like those of Jean-Leon Gerome . The French artist’s gladiator fights and scenes of Roman decadence could be straight out of epic films such as “Cleopatra” and “The Sign of the Cross.”
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Hell is a city much like London, as the poet Shelley famously claimed.
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Davy Jones, the accidental pop-music star who lent his voice to songs such as “Daydream Believer” as a singer of the made-for-television band the Monkees, has died. He was 66.
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In “ Cleopatra: A Life ,” Stacy Schiff handles the politics of the ancient world from 48 to 30 BC with the immediacy she might bring to a book about the Clinton or Bush administrations.
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This year’s Oscar nominations featured the usual surplus of snubs. The most-commented upon was the absence of Christopher Nolan (“Inception”) from the quintet of anointed directors.
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“The Artist” won three Golden Globes, boosting the financial prospects for Weinstein Co.’s silent, black-and-white movie and its chances to win at next month’s Academy Awards.
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