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When Randal Kleiser‘s “The Blue Lagoon” was released in 1981, it was an instant sensation; the beautifully photographed tale of sexual awakening between two teenagers (Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins) set against the backdrop of a tropical island paradise combined prurience and elegance in a potent cocktail that audiences couldn’t get enough of at the time. Its $60-million gross against a $5-million budget couldn’t be ignored — especially by other filmmakers looking to replicate its success.

As was so often the case, Italian filmmakers were particularly aggressive in their plagiarism, with films like the now-forgotten “Due gocce d’acqua salata” blatantly ripping off both the premise and the marketing of “The Blue Lagoon.” But the most well-known “Blue Lagoon” imitator came from an unlikely location for an exotic travelogue centered on sensual exploration: Canada.

“Paradise,” which was released in 1982 by now-defunct distributor Avco-Embassy, was the brainchild of producer Robert Lantos,...

Simply doing a literal red carpet for a red carpet event isn’t enough anymore. Especially when it’s a party as big as the Met Gala.

Each year, the Met Gala rolls out a new carpet design that’s inspired by the theme of the evening.

This year, the star-studded crowd, which includes co-chairs Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth, is walking up steps that are covered in a cream color with mossy green accents along the sides.

The design choice is in keeping with the dress code of the 2024 Met Gala, “The Garden of Time,” which is inspired by a J.G. Ballard story.

Meanwhile, the sides of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s storied steps are lined with greenery-covered barriers between the stars and photographers and reporters, and the walls are painted with forest scenes that look like they could be out of an old masters painting.

Sony has revealed a long list of games coming to PlayStation Plus in December 2022, including epic sci-fi sagas and beloved first-person shooters. The subscription service's tiered structure means that users can choose a plan that fits their needs, giving access to either a small lineup of hits or an enormous roster of new and old games. Between the Essential, Extra and Premium tiers, PlayStation Plus is adding an exciting catalog of new games this December.

The selection of games added to PlayStation Plus in November 2022 was substantial, with last month's additions delivering a wide range of experiences. PlayStation Plus Essential subscribers received access to the intense Soulslike action game Nioh 2, the outer space puzzle game Heavenly Bodies and the magical Lego Harry Potter Collection. Meanwhile, PlayStation Plus Extra received a huge list of games including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, What Remains of Edith Finch and various Kingdom Hearts titles.

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.

New Music Friday – September 12, 2022

Noah Cyrus – “I Just Want A Lover”, plus The Hardest Part (Album)

Jessie Reyez – “Only One”, plus Yessie (Album)

Charlie Puth – “I Don’t Think That I Like Her”

Nct 127 – “질주 (2 Baddies)”

Fletcher – “Serial Heartbreaker”, plus Girl Of My Dreams (Album)

Carly Rae Jepsen – “Talking To Yourself”

Blackpink – “Shut Down”

Other noteworthy artists with releases this week include Daya – “See You In My Dreams”, Maggie Lindemann – “cages”, Rina Sawayama – “Hurricanes”, emlyn – “my best friend’s ex”, The Rose – “Childhood”, Ari Hicks – “Midas”, Ashley Cooke – ” Back In The Saddle”, Sam Short and Deux Twins – “Only Dance We Get”, Maris – “Heavenly Bodies”, easy life – “Antifreeze”, Callista Clark – “Brave Girl”, Kat Leigh – “Criminal”, You Me At Six ft.

Over the Met Gala's almost 75 years, celebs have given fans unforgettable looks in its recent almost 50 years with a star-studded red carpet. In recent years, stars like Beyoncé, Rihanna and Cher have effortlessly embodied themes like "China: Through the Looking Glass" and "Haute Couture." Memorable looks include Rihanna's "Heavenly Bodies" outfit featuring a Maison Margiela coat and a bishop's hat by Stephen Jones, and Lil Nas X's three-part Versace look with a shimmering body suit. For 2022, celebs will strut the Met Gala red carpet dressed for the second part of the "In America" theme: "An Anthology of Fashion."...

Just days after Scarlett Johansson wore a Marchesa dress to the 2018 Met Gala, Anna Wintour appeared on The Late Show and praised the actress for wearing a dress by fashion designer and ex-wife of Harvey Weinstein Georgina Chapman. The Avengers star was the first A-lister to wear Marchesa to a high-profile event since news of the Weinstein scandal broke. While host Stephen Colbert said he didn't think the dress went with the gala's "Heavenly Bodies" theme, he claimed the actress wore the gown as a statement that Chapman "shouldn't be punished for the sins of her husband," referencing the multiple sexual misconduct allegations against the disgraced producer. "I totally agree...

It seems like it’s only a matter of time before digital phenom Liza Koshy graces the cover of Vogue.

After becoming the first digital star to appear in the famed fashion bible’s 73 Questions series on YouTube, Koshy was tapped to host the red carpet pre-show for the Met Gala -- an uber-exclusive fundraising event for the Metropolitan Museum Of Art chaired by former Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour during which top celebs and designers turn up in avant-garde fashions. The event, which is annually held on the first Monday in May, was themed 'Heavenly Bodies' this year, and so attendees wore get-ups inspired by Catholicism.

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The most controversial moment of the Met Gala was not Rihanna's Pope-inspired gown, but rather Kendall Jenner seemingly pushing a security guard out of her way on the red carpet. Kendall, who rocked a white bodysuit by designer Virgil Abloh, was posing for the cameras when she lightly nudged the guard forward — prompting social media to explode into a debate about her ~diva~ behavior. "Hey @KendallJenner, this guy was just doing his job, and yet you thought it was ok to push him out of the way so you could take a photo? Get over yourself," one person tweeted before another added, "Kendall Jenner shows up to the #MetGala in the most bland toilet paper outfit and had the nerve to push one of the handlers out of the way who was just doing his job on the carpet #Rude." Get Out Of My Way #MetGala pic.twitter.com...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed the theme for the 2018 Met Gala on Wednesday, while also announcing Anna Wintour’s co-hosts for the upcoming event. Themed “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” the 2018 gala will be co-hosted by Rihanna, Amal Clooney and Donatella Versace, and will be held on Monday, May 7, 2018. The three women take over for Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady, who co-hosted the fashion spectacle last year. The annual benefit precedes The Met’s Costume Institute exhibition, which will “feature a dialogue between fashion and masterworks of religious art in The Met collection to.

Get ready for the Amal Ball!

On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that the co-chairs at next year's Met Gala will be Amal Clooney, Rihanna, Donatella Versace and, of course, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. The theme of the star-studded soiree -- which is oftentimes referred to as the Fashion Oscars -- will be Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, which is sure to inspire some outlandish outfits come the first Monday in May!

More: Anna Wintour Reveals Who She’d Never Invite Back to the Met Gala

"Fashion and religion have long been intertwined, mutually inspiring and informing one another," says Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, of the theme. "Although this relationship has been complex and sometimes contested, it has produced some of the most inventive and innovative creations in the history of fashion."

This will be Amal's second Met Gala. The 39-year-old civil rights lawyer -- who welcomed...

Vidya Balan is anything but conventional, shattering glass ceilings and breaking stereotypes – She was the first female star from Bollywood to proudly shoulder a woman-centric film and rewrote history with the blockbuster The Dirty Picture.

Having headlined several game changing films for women stars in movies including Ishqya and the Kahaani franchise , the actress who has dared to be different and stuck to her roots, has always been a favorite while studying how the Contemporary Female Star in Bollywood has shaped aspirations for the New Indian Woman.

Tupur Chatterjee of the University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio-Television-Film, United States recently wrote a piece addressing the subject as part of Synoptique, a special selection of texts that addressed questions of “national” Indian cinema within the context of art film circuits and transnational/national/regional film industries,celebrated film cultures and the (re) discovery of forgotten ones.

One such focused...

The actress is mostly remembered for her good looks, but what about her impressive performances?

In Richard Dyer’s book Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society, he writes that Marilyn Monroe was “the most visible star”: an actress whose life was put on display, and remains so over 50 years after her death. She is one of the most iconic Hollywood stars of all time, her face instantly recognizable to even those who have never seen any of her movies. She is a symbol of beauty, glamor, cinema, femininity, blondness, sexuality, and tragedy. While the world speculates about her personal life — who was she romantically involved with? How did she die? What was she really like? — her career as an actress is overshadowed by her fame.

While she may not have been the greatest actress of all time, she certainly had her fair share of talent and intelligence, and always worked incredibly hard to bring her...

Late this summer, a doorway to Guillermo del Toro's imagination will be opened when a new exhibit, "At Home with Monsters", debuts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma). To celebrate the new showcase of what inspires the filmmaker, Insight Editions will release Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters: Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections, a new art book featuring photos of the exhibit, pages from del Toro's journals, and insightful interviews from art experts.

Ahead of its release on August 30th (the same day del Toro's exhibit opens at the Lacma), the Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters art book is teased in preview pages below, and we also have the press release with full details on the hardcover:

Press Release: In 2016, a new exhibit on the work of visionary director Guillermo del Toro will open at the Los Angeles County Museum...

There are roughly 900,000 tribute pieces online this week about the 1985 John Hughes film "The Breakfast Club," and I understand the motivation. If you were the right age when the film was released (I was 15 at the time), that movie felt like a lightning bolt right to the face. Hughes treated teenagers like they were actual people with complex emotional lives worthy of respect, and while that would seem to be a logical approach to writing about any character, it certainly didn't feel average when he did it. He wrote about that secret world of teenagers with what felt like laser accuracy, and he basically created an entire industry of movies that tried to tap into that same audience. So certainly, there is much to celebrate when looking back at that particular film, but when I went to look at a list of the films that came out in 1985, a year...

Most people know about Egypt's pharaohs - great rulers buried in intricate tombs surrounded by their worldly possessions and other riches - but those late leaders weren't the only ones to greet death in style. Art historian Dr. Paul Koudounaris hunted down hidden jewel-encrusted skeletons, once proudly put on display in churches, for his book Heavenly Bodies, according to CNN. Heavenly Bodies documents the journey of these morbid masterpieces, which were first unearthed from Roman catacombs as bare bones in 1578. Excavated by the Catholics, the discoverers assumed the remains were those of Christian martyrs. To demonstrate the glory and glitz...

Most people know about Egypt's pharaohs - great rulers buried in intricate tombs surrounded by their worldly possessions and other riches - but those late leaders weren't the only ones to greet death in style. Art historian Dr. Paul Koudounaris hunted down hidden jewel-encrusted skeletons, once proudly put on display in churches, for his book Heavenly Bodies, according to CNN. Heavenly Bodies documents the journey of these morbid masterpieces, which were first unearthed from Roman catacombs as bare bones in 1578. Excavated by the Catholics, the discoverers assumed the remains were those of Christian martyrs. To demonstrate the glory and glitz...

It’s Day 2 of our Henry Cavill Twitter Watch, and the tweets about his handsomeness have definitely gotten racier. Credit goes to more people having actually now seen him on the big screen as Man of Steel’s Superman, but also to the airing of a Graham Norton Show interview in Britain, which produced so many tweets right as we began our search for inappropriate expressions of affection that we only had the stamina to look through two hours’ worth. Watch a fun Graham Norton clip below in which costar Amy Adams explains how creepy one feels talking about Henry...

"People think Hollywood and fashion are really superficial," Afonso Salcedo says in a phone interview with The Huffington Post. "But they were so affected by the HIV crisis and wanted to help when no one else would."

Salcedo is discussing his upcoming documentary film, "There Was Magic," which chronicles the combined efforts of the entertainment and fashion worlds to fight the AIDS epidemic in 1986.

Inspired by the book Heavenly Bodies: Remembering Hollywood and Fashion’s Favorite AIDS Benefit, the documentary will combine stories, interviews, archival footage and photography to revisit one of the most successful and glamorous benefits in history, where 10 ambitious and historically transformative fashion shows altered the narrative of the HIV/AIDS crisis. As Salcedo says on his Kickstarter page: "The anecdotes are real, sometimes naughty, often heart-wrenching, yet always inspiring and uplifting."

Salcedo worked for Pixar and DreamWorks studios before embarking on this project, and it...

This morning, the National Book Award finalists were announced on Morning Joe. (Nice scooping, Jo-Scarbs.) For fiction we have: Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her; Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King; Louise Erdrich, The Round House; Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk; Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds. For nonfiction: Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956; Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity; Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4; Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas; Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East.For young people's literature: William Alexander, Goblin Secrets; Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach; Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down; Eliot Schrefer, Endangered; Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon. And last but not least,...