Word: bikini
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Running in Heels, a D.C.-based political-action committee, is trying to politicize the Sex and the City set by signing up voters at singles parties and offering bikini waxes and yoga classes...
...like at "2004," but it won't get you any closer to working out if Brisbane painter Paul Wrigley's airbrushed Ashton, 2003-4, is smiling with or at the cult of celebrity. As Gold Coast artist Scott Redford likes to say (when not videotaping bikini-clad models sawing surfboards in half in a Palazzo Versace hotel suite): "I aim to adopt a strategy of immersion rather than critique. We are participants (in popular culture) rather than spectators...
...more sensitive, with networks still cowering from the FCC's decency crusade. Just ask Casino executive producer Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice), who ran into interference from Fox's censors for, among other things, a scene in the show's debut featuring a stripper in a whipped-cream bikini. "If you don't have an accurate portrayal of what really goes on there," Burnett says, "it's hard to know where to turn. I'm not even allowed to put a naked body with blurs on it, which is what we do on Survivor...
...with female leads (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). But casting men doesn't automatically mean attracting men. Clubhouse is a mostly male sports story, but it's also a coming-of-age tale that looks several notches too sentimental for the Punk'd generation. Likewise with NBC's action-and-bikini-heavy cop show Hawaii. Guys these days are used to video games in which they can orchestrate their own car chases, crashes and shoot-outs, with the violence--and even sex--rendered with cinematic accuracy. To them, even a slick action show in its safe-for-network version may seem...
...been in training since the age of 8, when she joined the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney. There she was talent-spotted by the producers of Dallas Doll, her feature film debut opposite American comedienne Sandra Bernhard in 1994. Five years later, with blond streaks and a bikini, her career was launched as Heath Ledger's love interest in Gregor Jordan's King's Cross crime caper Two Hands. Another five years on, she's the first to admit that Troy "is not much to do with the women." It's all about Brad. "He's really actually...