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Fashion, Art, and Sex

29 September 2009 1:33 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

The Versace show in Milan, September 25. From Wwd. All three very much intertwined during Milan's Fashion Week this season. Last week, I went to the Jil Sander show to see the collection, but found myself distracted by the soft-porn clips from the 1970 film Zabriskie Point playing in loops on screens dispersed around the runway. I was trying to focus on the clothes. I really was. And there were certainly items of interest to look at, but when a second guy joined in the heavy makeout session on the screen (or was it a third? or was that another girl?), I had to give up for a minute. It was funny to see the expression on proper Stefano Tonchi's face when the film caught the New York Times editor's eye. »

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Beyonce Over Britney? Eminem Tops Kanye? Predicting The 2009 Video Music Award Winners

5 August 2009 3:50 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

We try to guess who's going to take home some Moonmen, in Bigger Than the Sound.

By James Montgomery

Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"

Photo: Columbia

Last year, when I was apparently fearless (the economy was better back then, after all), I complained that predicting the winners at the MTV Video Music Awards was impossible. Of course, after spending something like 400 words expressing the futility of trying to guess who will win, I actually nailed 50 percent of my predictions, including my big-money bet that Britney's "Piece of Me" would be named Video of the Year.

So, emboldened by last year's success, I'm putting on my prognostication cap (and cape and striped vest) once again and attempting to predict the winners of the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Nominees were announced Tuesday, and it's shaping up to be a battle of the divas — Vma fave Beyoncé and upstart »

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Jay-z's 'D.O.A.' Video Inspired By '70s Counterculture Movie

30 June 2009 12:57 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

Hov says 1970's 'Zabriskie Point' has the same rebellious feel as Blueprint 3.

By Shaheem Reid

Jay-z in his video for "D.O.A." (Death of Auto-Tune)

Photo: Roc Nation via Bet

Just as Jay-z looked to the past for the soundscapes of his original Blueprint LP, it seems he went retro again for the video for the first single from Blueprint 3, "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)." This time, it was a controversial 1970 film that served as the muse for a portion of the "D.O.A." video, Hov told MTV News.

"The visual for 'D.O.A.' conveys the direction for Blueprint 3 and is inspired, in part, by the film 'Zabriskie Point,' directed by Michelangelo Antonioni," Jay said in an e-mail about his video, which premiered on Sunday, after the Bet Awards. "The film parallels the vision of Blueprint 3. 'Zabriskie Point' represents aspects of a counterculture movement. »

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DVD: Review: Zabriskie Point

26 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

After enjoying the biggest success of his career with 1966’s Blow Up, Michelangelo Antonioni spent two years (and $7 million of Hollywood’s money) making Zabriskie Point, an aloof, unfocused study of American crassness and its corrupting influence. By the time the movie arrived in theaters in 1970, critics and hip moviegoers were growing weary of anti-establishment screeds on the silver screen, so Antonioni got hammered for his already-dated take on hippie revolutionaries, as well as for his insistence on using a cast of inert, mumbly non-professionals. Then in the ensuing decades, Zabriskie Point’s critical standing improved, as »

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'Zabriskie Point' Gets 2Nd Life On DVD

26 May 2009 5:09 AM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

Michelangelo Antonioni's "Zabriskie Point" (1970), one of the most controversial and notorious flops in Hollywood history, is getting another chance on DVD.

The most spectacularly unsuccessful attempt by a studio to cash in on the "youth market" it thought was created by "Easy Rider," this indictment of American society was savaged by critics and returned just $900,000 on MGM's $7 million investment.

Antonioni, an Italian director who had tapped into the zeitgeist with "Blow-Up" to the tune of a (then-huge) $20 million gross, cast a pair of unknowns, Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin, »

- By LOU LUMENICK

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