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Budd Schulberg, Writer

Pareene · 08/06/09 10:43AM

Screenwriter and novelist Budd Schulberg died Wednesday. He was among the first generation to be born Hollywood royalty, and he wrote what is probably the only classic movie business novel to have never been adapted for the screen.

New Book Dives Inside Actors' Trousers To Reveal The 'Donkey'd,' The Perv And The 'Biggest Ever Seen'

Molly Friedman · 05/16/08 11:00AM

Like it or not, nerd-turned-comedy-mogul Judd Apatow has tapped the fleshy center of the zeitgeist once again by unleashing Jason Segel’s manhood unto the world. And now, it looks like there’s a very hard hardcover release to look forward to in which Hollywood’s most legendary male assets are celebrated and outed — and we’re not talking shockers like Milton Berle. Among the nuggets revealed in Hollywood Babylon: It’s Back include the actor that's been called “donkey’d” by his female co-stars, the 1950s poster boy’s package was well-known in the prepubescent boy community, and who once posed nude for artists, earning himself the whisper, “It was the biggest I've ever seen. It made me drop my charcoal pencil.”

Chloe Sevigny and friends

Gawker · 03/21/03 10:36AM

The NYT's Joyce Wadler discovers celebrity hipsters at Chloe Sevigny's screening of Elia Kazan's America, America at the Tribeca Grand: "Pouring into the TriBeCa Grand's plush screening room to watch the film...were an invited crowd of socialites. Also attending were Ms. Sevigny's personal guests, who favored an urban biker look and had apparently never been coached by their mothers about looking pleased to be invited, even if you are not." The appearance of disaffectation and rugged urbanity (as opposed to rugged urbaneness) are actually part of The Look.
In Greece, apparently, no history of screenings [NYT]