Costume News Archive - 29-Feb-2008
Based on a novel built on historical fact, The Other Boleyn Girl is more overwrought soap opera than serious costume drama, but nobody involved in making the film seems to understand this. With murder, adultery, excommunication, stillbirths, incest, beheadings and some truly astonishing headgear all playing large roles, this film should be, if nothing else, campy, giggly fun, despite its ...
From a new noir, to a galaxy quest and, finally, a long and lean silhouette.
WASHINGTON: US leaders trot the globe putting on native garb ? a form of costume diplomacy that?s like kissing babies at home.
Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman admit to boot-dancing in costume on the set of "The Other Boleyn Girl." They also talk about Scarlett's upcoming album.
Phoenix police say officers got in a gun fight with a man Thursday afternoon after he shot at another man wearing a Statue of Liberty costume. Sgt. Joel Trantor, a police spokesman, says the shooting began as one of the men drove his truck by a strip mall in west Phoenix. Trantor says the truck driver slowed down, pointed a firearm out of the vehicle and shot at a man in a costume, who was not ...
When convicted murderer Stephen Grant was wheeled out of a northern Michigan hospital following his arrest last March, he was wearing Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel's Halloween costume -- a black-and-white prison getup Hackel had planned to wear to a party.
PHOENIX (AP) - Phoenix police said officers got in a gun fight with a man Thursday afternoon after he shot at another man wearing a Statue of Liberty costume.
The 20th annual Ostrich Festival is March 7-9, but first the event kicks off Saturday with a 5K fun run, an ''ostrich drop,'' costume contest and a health fair.
I have to admit a weakness for political chicanery and another weakness for opulent costume dramas - and "The Other Boleyn Girl," a combination of 16th-century soap opera and palace intrigue, delivers plenty of both.
Holland Area Newcomers is again sponsoring the annual Dutch costume Resale, providing the opportunity to purchase new or used costumes for Tulip Time. The event is scheduled 5 to 8 p.m. March 11 at the Civic Center, 150 W. Eighth St.
