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Anne Hathaway slid her enviably svelte frame into a colorful Versace suit as she swung by the Today show this week.The 39-year-old opted for an outfit that offered a psychedelic take on the classic 1930s skirt suit pioneered by Coco Chanel.She posted a snap of the look to her Instagram page and quoted the 1995 camp classic movie Showgirls: 'It's Versayse.' 'It's Versayse':Anne Hathaway slid her enviably svelte frame into a colorful Versace suit as she swung by the Today show this weekThe line is uttered by Elizabeth Berkley's character Nomi Malone, who starts off as a low-paid stripper and rises to become a Las Vegas star.In one scene Nomi proudly flounces into an office and is complimented on her new dress, prompting her to chirp: 'Thanks! I bought it at Versayse!' The people in the office look at her blankly until she adds: 'In the Forum?' meaning the famous shopping drag in Caesars Palace.While some characters humor her by going along with her mispronunciation, her love interest played byKyle MacLachlan eventually puts her right.

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Zack Sharf With the 94th Academy Awards set for later this month on March 27, it couldn’t be better timing for some of the biggest nominees to hit streaming platforms in March. Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” boasts 10 Oscar nominations, the second most-nominated movie of the year, and it’s finally returning to HBO Max this month to stream after originally debuting on the streamer for 31 days last fall.

Sharon Stone is spilling details about the infamous white dress she wore in "Basic Instinct." The actress revealed in an InStyle essay she was part curator of her wardrobe for the film, handpicking the number she wore for a scene in the 1992 film in which she sits cross-legged on a couch while smoking a cigarette. "The costume designer, Ellen Mirojnick, took me to Rodeo Drive and said, ‘You can pick out any one thing that you want for your character,'" Stone wrote in the magazine’s latest issue.

Killer fashion! Sharon Stone had a fair share of “memorable” looks in Basic Instinct (read: that white dress) — and she made a point to keep each and every outfit after filming wrapped. 

Sharon Stone has looked back at her time on the 1992 film Basic Instinct.The star commented to InStyle's March issue about how she kept all the clothes from the thriller because she wasn't paid much - $500K does not seem like a small amount but it was when compared to her costar Michael Douglas' $14million.And the blonde bombshell also said she had a hand in selecting the white mini dress with matching coat during the interrogation scene where she famously opened her legs. She helped this scene: Sharon Stone has looked back at her time on the 1992 film Basic Instinct.

A fledgling Lanarkshire filmmaker is "living the dream" after his first full-length feature was selected to premiere at next month's Glasgow Film Festival.

Glasgow Film Festival has unveiled the full line-up for its 2022 edition, which runs March 2-13.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticEven admirers of the movie “Showgirls” can concede that it was not a movie with its star’s best interests in mind.The 1995 box-office bomb was, in its moment, pilloried for its indulgent taste for sleaze; with some distance, it’s possible to see it as director Paul Verhoeven’s lovingly manic embrace of American trash culture.

They say there is no such thing as bad publicity, and a recent group of protesters have proven this age-old adage to be true when they picketed the New York Film Festival Premiere of Benedetta earlier this week, describing it as a “blasphemous lesbian movie”.Benedetta, is the work of director Paul Verhoeven and is based on the book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith Brown.

his latest film Benedetta.Speaking after critics questioned some of the scenes, including one where an effigy of the Virgin Mary is used as a sex toy, Verhoeven said (per Variety): “I don’t really understand how you can really blaspheme about something that happened, even in 1625.“You cannot change history, you cannot change things that happened, and I based it on the things that happened. So I think the word blasphemy in this case is stupid.”In response to another question about a new “hysteria” regarding nudity, the director responded: “Don’t forget, in general, people, when they have sex, they take their clothes off,” he said.

tricked into removing her underwear for the infamous scene in 1992’s “Basic Instinct.” The now-63-year-old actress wrote in her recent memoir that she was under the impression that no frontal nudity of her would appear in the film’s final cut. Verhoeven, however, finds this inconceivable. “She knew exactly what we were doing,” the 82-year-old Dutch director told Variety in an interview Wednesday.

“Basic Instinct” director Paul Verhoeven has responded to Sharon Stone’s claims about that famous leg-crossing scene.

The Cannes Film Festival will unveil its Official Selection lineup for the 74th edition on Thursday, June 3 at 11 a.m. Paris time (2 a.m. PT/5 a.m. ET). The press conference will stream live from the UGC Normandie cinema on the Champs-Elysées.

Sharon Stone has claimed that she slapped director Paul Verhoeven after being tricked into removing her underwear on set of 1992’s Basic Instinct.Recalling the unpleasant circumstances while filming her role, the 63-year-old alleged that she was told to remove the item of clothing during her famous interrogation scene because it ‘reflected the light’.In an excerpt from her new memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, obtained by Vanity Fair, the actress, who was 32 at the time of filming, also said that she was promised her private area would not be visible on-screen.Sharon said she realised the agreement wasn’t honoured when she called to see the final version of the film in a ‘room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do

Barrett Foa partner: Is NCIS LA Eric Beale star married?She added: “I had this wash of relief.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Total Recall is 3 decades old! Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rollercoaster ride to Mars holds up pretty well today and is seen as one of his action classics. Back in 1990 however the movie was a gamble, both for Arnie and director Paul Verhoeven.How did it come together? Did the shoot go well? What did people make of Total Recall at the time? And will there ever be a Recall 2? Let’s refresh our memories by taking a trip back to 2084…The source material for Total Recall was a Philip K.