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The growing list of filmdom personalities who have questioned Chauhan's merit have included actors Ranbir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui,

Shamitabh, releasing Friday, also stars Dhanush and marks the debut of Akshara Haasan in filmdom.

LeCompte and company--she's joined by filmdom's Frances McDormand, performers Cynthia Hedstrom and Suzzy Roche (of the Roches), and, in the second half, Bebe Miller and some male dancing partners--start out stock still and formal, but eventually succumb to a kind of religious ecstasy as they anticipate the Second Coming: "I'll be reeling, turning, twisting, shake out all the starch and stiffening," one refrain goes.

We may be only three weeks from the close of Oscar voting's first phase, but there are two more months of vetting the races and swooning at the stars in their finery before the Dolby Theatre is filled with filmdom's finest and the races in this Guide are filled with answers instead of questions.

Synopsis: In this lively memoir of one of TV and filmdom's most memorable actors, readers are taken on a sixty-plus-year journey that continues to this day.

Known as the company that gave local filmdom its biggest and highly-celebrated youth-oriented classic "Bagets" in the '80s, Viva Films now gives moviegoers "Diary ng Panget," a teen movie that aims to launch a new breed of fresh, young actors to stardom.

Filmdom is at the moment infected by'100-crore-bug', with Hindi cinema fast losing its charm and being merely reduced to a money minting machine.

Beaty suggests that "Waugh obliquely indicates what he believes to be the essential similarity between the mortuary dream and the products of filmdom," and acknowledges that the American death industry shares "a close philosophical connection with the Hollywood of the moviemakers, which is also portrayed as a dream factory where mere shadows of reality are passed off as the genuine article" (172).

Once labelled box office poison, the fiery star rose to become one of filmdom's most feted actresses.

It takes filmdom's most beloved deus ex machina, Morgan Freeman, to clue Jack in.

That day led to one of filmdom's greatest scenes, the scene that actually makes the most masculine of men feel squeamish.

As an annual grand festival in Chinese filmdom, it is a nationwide large-scale cultural activity which includes film appraisal, award presentation, Chinese and foreign film screening, academic discussion, film marketing, international cultural communication and artistic performance.

ONE of filmdom's most beloved trios - Ice Age's Manny, Diego, and Sid - embark upon their greatest adventure in Ice Age 4: Continental Drift, after a cataclysm sets an entire continent adrift.