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PHOTOS: Celebrating John Lautner's 100th Birthday

Posted 09.22.2011

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July 16, 2011 marked what would have been John Lautner's 100th birthday. In honor of this event, MAK CENTER and the John Lautner Foundation have organ...

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A Single Man Draws From Tom Ford's Relationship, Family Suicide

Katy Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

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For all of Ford's carnally provocative fashion campaigns (he once created a campaign that showcased his fragrance in between the shiny legs of naked women), A Single Man is void of sexual mechanics, which may make it more inclusive.

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Golden Globe Nominee Colin Firth Refines The King's Speech

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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In The King's Speech, Firth plays Bertie, a life-long stutterer on a quest to find his voice, especially since he suddenly becomes crowned King George VI of England in 1936.

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Making Another Movie?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Designer Tom Ford is gearing up for another film, Moviefone reports. The clothier-turned-cineaste directed last year's "A Single Man," which was nomin...

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A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist's Model: My Sessions With Don Bachardy

Lisa Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Out of the blue I was contacted by the model booking agent for Don Bachardy, to sit for none other than the venerable portrait master himself--a man w...

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Bryan Batt Talks Sal's 'Mad Men' Fate, Hollywood's Gay Problem

Katy Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

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"If you are openly gay, the masses can be asses and sometimes can't get past the fact that that's how someone lives their private life," said Batt, who has been with his partner, Tom Cianfichi, for 21 years. "Some actors have to make a choice."

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Oscar Nominations: The Books Behind The Movies (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt and Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

The Oscars are just around the corner, and out of the ten movies nominated for Best Picture, four are based on books. This isn't the first year that...

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Baffled by the BAFTAs

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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The ratings for award shows this season are up. Entertainment Weekly reports that Emmy viewership was up 9% and the Golden Globes were up 14%. Why? Simple. My recaps of them here.

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A Single Man: The Cinema of Beautiful Death

Dan Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Too bad A Single Man was overlooked as an Oscar best picture contender. This movie deserves your viewing for Firth's magnificent performance in a wrenching yet life affirming story of love and loss.

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The Forgotscars: Honoring the Oscar Snubs

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the Oscar nominations were announced this morning there were several key omissions. No Julianne Moore? No Samantha Morton?

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Colin Firth: I'm Part Of Hollywood's Gay Problem

Posted 05.25.2011

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Colin Firth received a best actor Oscar nod for his role as a grieving gay professor in Tom Ford's 'A Single Man,' but he acknowledges that his perfor...

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Leaving Sundance 2010: Parting Thoughts

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

The roots of Sundance were acres of granola-flavored films about people in small towns or women in crisis or something that was equally high-minded but was consistently bemoaned as not being particularly commercial.

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What I Think of Tom Ford's A Single Man... and Personal Style in General

Louis Licari | Posted 05.25.2011

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The film made it clear that great style has nothing to do with the latest frock or hairstyle. People with true style understand what suits them best and they stay within certain fashion parameters.

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Madonna Wears Her Sunglasses At Night (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Madonna wore her big sunglasses and a fur coat to a screening of "A Single Man" in New York Sunday night. She clutched the fur coat around herself ...

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Nicholas Hoult of A Single Man: About a Boy Who's Become a Man -- With Oscar Prospects!

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

For most of us in America it's startling not only to see the physical change to manhood in Nicholas Hoult, but to remark how intriguing and comparable his roles are in About A Boy and A Single Man.

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Tom Ford's A Single Man Up For Three Golden Globes

Posted 05.25.2011

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Forget Gucci! The fashion house's former Creative Director Tom Ford might be on his way to earning a Golden Globe for his film "A Single Man". The oe...

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Colin Firth Got A Trainer When Tom Ford Called Him Fat

Posted 05.25.2011

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Colin Firth is the leading man in Tom Ford's directorial debut "A Single Man," and he's looking fitter than ever after his director called him fat. ...

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Tom Ford's A Single Man: Gay, Straight AND Other

David Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Single Man isn't a film that demands you take to the streets -- or to the ranch. Instead, with its focus on love and loss, the film draws you inward to a place of contemplation rather than confrontation.

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Tom Ford Explains How A Candy Bar Commercial Made Him Want To Direct (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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When fashion designer turned director Tom Ford appeared on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on Tuesday, he immediately mentioned he grew up in Texas. "A...

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California Literary Review's Top 10 Movies of 2009

Zorianna Kit | Posted 05.25.2011

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There was no better action film this year than Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker. By far the best Iraq war movie to date, it follows an elite team of soldiers whose sole job is to diffuse IED's on the streets of Baghdad.

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AFI Top-10 List Of 2009 Movies

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — The dramas "Precious" and "The Hurt Locker," the comedies "Up in the Air" and "The Hangover" and the animated tales "Up" and "Cora...

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Tom Ford On 'A Single Man': 'I Didn't Care About The Style'

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Fashion designer Tom Ford has made a seamless transition to filmmaker with "A Single Man," the soulful, immaculately styled story of a ...

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Tom Ford, Julianne Moore & Colin Firth At 'A Single Man' Premiere (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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AP text: VENICE, Italy -- Tom Ford switched from the catwalk to the red carpet on Friday, presenting his directorial debut -- an intimate movie about...

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