Which underscores the point that Baz Luhrmann and Jay-Z (not to be confused with Jay Gatsby) picked the wrong literary giant to mess with when they saturated the soundtrack of the latest filming of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (1925) with rap and hip-hop.
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Now, the star of "The Great Gatsby" has asked Christie's to help him pull off an auction of his own to raise money for the environment.
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If the pattern holds, The Great Gatsby is doomed.
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Warner Bros. already had its Oscar contender in Argo and star Leonardo DiCaprio had a shot at an Oscar nomination for Django Unchained, which was originally to open on the same day as The Great Gatsby.
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Travellers looking for a glamorous Hollywood nightlife experience in Los Angeles should head to the newly opened Emerson Theater for a glimpse of the debaucherous, decadent days of the Great Gatsby era.
One reason they haven't cashed in is that the Fitzgerald estate owns the U.S. copyright on "The Great Gatsby" until 2021.
In 2013 he will share screen space with Leonardo DiCaprio in the latest movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
Scott Fitzgerald is enjoying a posthumous revival with the latest film remake of "The Great Gatsby, " opening Friday.
Scott Fitzgerald is enjoying a posthumous revival with the latest film remake of "The Great Gatsby, " opening today.
But it will face several formidable competitors in the next few weeks, including "The Great Gatsby, " starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and sequels "Star Trek: Into Darkness, " "Fast and Furious Six" and "The Hangover Part III, " all of which are generating healthy amounts of prerelease interest.
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Both Olsens are major collectors of vintage fashion (friend and client Carey Mulligan won the role of Daisy in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby wearing one of Ashley's 1930s dresses), and are equally well-acquainted with the non- vintage luxury market.
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This dreadful film even derogates the artistry of Fitzgerald, who wrote "The Great Gatsby" while living on Long Island and in Europe.
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For Rap Genius, doing the same for the internet will mean pulling in large swaths of text from outside the music world, as the site has already started to do, hosting annotated versions of public domain books like The Great Gatsby and court cases like Plessy v.
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" By no means a gamer, the elder Mr. Smith needed a month to get through "The Great Gatsby for NES, " calling it "hypnotically fascinating.
My wife and I were getting the opportunity not just to try the Gatsby cocktail but also to stay at the newly opened Fitzgerald Suite and decorated by Catherine Martin, "The Great Gatsby's" Academy Award winning production designer ("Moulin Rouge"), and Mr. Luhrmann's wife.
If history is any indication, The Great Gatsby will bomb rather hard next weekend.
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The Great Gatsby is that rare thing, a genuine star-driven character drama playing like a blockbuster.
Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby, will open the festival on 15 May.
It was Gatsby, who went on to be a rather remarkable character in The Great Gatsby.
Reportedly she turned down lead roles in The Great Gatsby and Bonnie and Clyde during this period.
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Plus, they give a nod to The Great Gatsby, one of the lasting symbols of the American Dream.
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It can be as simple as trying to justify Fitzgerald's reference to a pink suit in The Great Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby has faded into a fuzzy memory only to be revived by the new Leonardo DiCaprio movie.
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Some claim it inspired Tom and Daisy Buchanan's home in The Great Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby was scripted by Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce, who worked together eight-time Oscar nominated film, Moulin Rouge!
Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" will endure this indignity as surely as it outlasted previous versions with Alan Ladd and Robert Redford.
The Great Gatsby features songs by Jack White and rapper Jay-Z - who is also due to attend the opening at Cannes.
There are no two ways about it: "The Great Gatsby" is misconceived and misjudged, a crude burlesque on what's probably American literature's most precious jewel.
The Great Gatsby author kept records of his publications, income and key events in a ledger, which has been put online by the University of South Carolina.
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