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Winslet's
Oscar Bid
Battered by
Nazi Furor

Feb 15, 2009 8:37 AM CST

Winslet's Oscar Bid Battered by Nazi Furor

'Nazi porn' asks use to 'empathize with mass murderer'

(Newser) - Mounting criticism of The Reader as an apologia for the Nazis is seriously undermining Kate Winslet's chances for an Oscar, reports the Telegraph. Critics have blasted the film as "Nazi porn," and the author of a book on Hitler charged in a recent article in Slate that it...

Hathaway Tries On Her New Life

GLOSSIES

Dec 18, 2008 3:15 PM CST

Hathaway Tries On Her New Life

Single after much-covered breakup with fraud, star faces new roles in life, on film

(Newser) - After a split with her jail-bound boyfriend, Anne Hathaway is trying on new outfits in both her personal and professional lives, she tells Sally Singer in Vogue. A London shopping trip may find the star a bit uncertain, but colleagues don’t mince words in praising her on-screen growth: She’...

Hopeless Is Hot in Hollywood

OPINION

Nov 30, 2008 7:57 AM CST

Hopeless Is Hot in Hollywood

Movies and viewers love to get miserable

(Newser) - Bleak is the new chic in Tinseltown, writes Dan Zak in the Washington Post. Cloverfield's crowd-trampling monster, the psycho serial killer of No Country for Old Men, and the twisted oil entrepreneur of There Will Be Blood (need we mention the Dark Knight?) highlight the "raw misery of the...

On Movie Set, Jolie Filmed Naked With Married Pitt

Nov 23, 2008 9:06 AM CST

On Movie Set, Jolie Filmed Naked With Married Pitt

'We all remember that,' says witness

(Newser) - Angelie Jolie so aggressively flirted with married co-star Brad Pitt that she climbed into bed with him naked for a scene in Mr and Mrs Smith, Us reports. "In a main love scene, Brad and Angelina would both wear flesh-colored underwear," said a source on the 2004 set ...