Hollywood

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A federal grand jury on Friday indicted a Hollywood director who had withdrawn a guilty plea to a charge accusing him of lying to federal agents investigating a celebrity wiretapping case.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An adviser to Iran’s president on Sunday demanded an apology from a team of visiting Hollywood actors and movie industry officials, including Annette Bening, saying films such as “300” and “The Wrestler” were “insulting” to Iranians.

Baz Lurhmann’s first film in almost a decade is wrapped in the veneer of an epic. It’s old Hollywood through and through with touches of “Gone with the Wind”, “Giant”, “From Here to Eternity”, and “Red River” along with a heavy helping of “The Wizard of Oz”. And yet this mixture of influences from Hollywood’s first Golden Age all feels distinctly hollow because Luhrmann can’t combine it into something original nor does he use it as a mean of telling an original story.