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1999 Stories by Peter Braunstein

• King of the Earth

  published December 7, 1999

  Faced with smoldering accusations that Fox studios destroyed a pristine Thai island while filming his upcoming feature, 'The Beach,' Leonardo... More >>

• 'Access' Denied

  published November 16, 1999

  NBC's entertainment newsmagazine Access Hollywood thought it was being hip when... More >>

• Defining Deviancy Down

  published August 24, 1999

  The NC-17 rating is approaching its ninth birthday, but some people are calling for a funeral instead. In a recent manifesto published in... More >>

• Web Witchcraft

  published July 13, 1999

  Take the promotional hook from Last House on the Left ("Keep repeating: it's only a movie . . . "), contradict it with the premise behind... More >>

• Secrets and Spies

  published July 6, 1999

  The saturation-bombing approach to promotion taken by this summer's blockbusters Phantom Menace and Austin Powers 2 throws into... More >>

• The Good Fights

  published June 29, 1999

  That David Fincher's reputedly ultraviolent Fight Club has been Buffied (postponed by distributor Fox till the fall) is one sign that... More >>

• Minor Threat

  published June 15, 1999

  It was so obvious that no one thought of it until now. Reacting to Washington's stepped-up scrutiny of Hollywood's contribution to teen violence,... More >>

• Careers in Rehab

  published June 1, 1999

  Maybe it's part of some postimpeachment cycle of sexual amnesty, but the film world this summer is doling out second chances to some of its own... More >>

• Neck and Neck

  published April 20, 1999

  Among today's young starlets, everyone gets to be Audrey Hepburn for 15 minutes. The early front-runner in the race for "next Audrey" was It girl... More >>

• Astral Projections

  published March 16, 1999

  The latest vogue in millennial-chic film journalism is to look at Young Hollywood through a crystal ball and ask: which of today's stars will... More >>

• Life's a Beach

  published January 5, 1999

  Just as the Philippines began healing from Claire Danes's indictment of Manilan society as "ghastly and weird," Young Hollywood's reign of terror... More >>