贝蒂戴维斯(苏珊·萨兰登 Susan Sarandon 饰)和琼克劳馥(杰西卡·兰格 Jessica Lange 饰)都是曾以她们耀耀生辉的星光照亮过影史的女演员们,两人事业和感情上的冲突造成了她们彼此之间深深的矛盾,这段复杂纠葛的恩怨情仇在好莱坞早就不是什么秘密了。
然而好莱坞是健忘的,随着年岁的增长,琼发现自己在不知不觉中已经成为了过气演员,不甘心就此销声匿迹的她决定放手一搏。琼选定了一本名为《宝贝简到底怎么了》的惊悚小说,热情邀请导演罗伯特(阿尔弗雷德·莫里纳Alfred Molina 饰)执导,之后又亲自拜访贝蒂,此时的贝蒂事业亦是百般不顺,面对琼抛来的橄榄枝动了心。就这样,在机缘汇聚之下,贝蒂和琼这对冤家再度聚首,在戏里戏外均上演着一幕幕不见鲜血和硝烟的战争。
This show is quite possibly the biggest waste of videotape, electricity, and RF bandwidth in the 70+ year history of television. It's nothing but 60 minutes of some of the worst bile that can come out of human beings, male or female. Basically, it's nothing but pure bitchy, catty, c*nty, vile harpiness among the contestants, judges, and the fashionistas (or should I say fashionazis). Typically a lot of insulting, backbiting, and bitchy, unnecessarily anal-retentive criticism.
The thing that gets me about the show is how much the judges and fashionazis (and the pretentious & shallow fashion industry in general) nit-pick against the equally bitchy contestants about little, petty, trivial, frivolous, anal-retentive things about their appearance, personality, etc. Things that the *REAL* people in this world (which the fashion industry lacks, thankfully) wouldn't give rat's ass number 1 about. (Myself included.)
Crap like: "Oh, your left eyebrow is a yoctometer off center. That isn't gonna fly, and nobody will take you seriously in this industry because of it!" Or, "You're breathing wrong. Good luck with winning this competition." I'm just kidding here, but they usually end up saying things almost exactly like this on this show.
If getting into the fashion industry is this hard, painful, bitchy, insulting, nit-picky, catty, backstabbing, and anal-retentive as this show tries to portray, than thank the good Lord that He made me all fat, balding, hairy, and dumpy-frumpy-dowdy-frowsy-geeky-lookin', because I would never want to be required to have the caustic bitchiness and anal, pretentious attitude of any model or fashionazi (or any fashion industry worker), namely the people on this show.
And Janice Dickinson, mercy, do not get me started on her...
This show needs to die. It's this show (and many other "reality" shows like it) that proves that competitiveness (and the fashion industry) is truly the devil's tool...
故事发生在古希腊的雅典,赫米拉(奥利维娅·德哈维兰 Olivia de Havilland 饰)和拉山德(迪克·鲍威尔 Dick Powell 饰)深深的爱慕着彼此,可是两人的恋情却遭到了赫米拉家人的强烈反对,因为他们早已经给女儿相中了名为狄米特律斯(罗斯·亚历山大 Ross Alexander 饰)的男子作为夫婿。为此,赫米拉和拉山德决定私奔,并且逃到了一片森林之中。之后,赫米拉的好友海伦娜(琼·缪尔 Jean Muir 饰)带着狄米特律斯也来到了森林之中。 森林里居住着一群调皮可爱的精灵们,此时,仙王(Hobart Cavanaugh 饰)和仙后(Verree Teasdale 饰)正在闹别扭,于是,仙王决定好好的捉弄一下误闯森林的这些男男女女们。
Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale
Documentary narrated by Kate Winslet, telling the intimate story of an emperor penguin chick's first precarious months on the ice, growing up in the world's most extreme nursery.