Baz Luhrmann's Elvis movie will be bad because Baz Luhrmann is bad.
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Baz specifically was talking to Kerry about doing this project, and Kerry knew that I shared a very similar aesthetic to them and greatly admired Baz and Catherine Martin.
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Part 1 of Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down debuts Aug.
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Fortunately, Nicole Kidman had director Baz Luhrmann in her corner.
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"We had like 15 people in the basement," Baz said.
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"Mullah Baz Mohammad is very important," the Taliban envoy said.
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"It's like the Ministry of Information in the book ," Baz said.
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He also starred in an H&M film directed by Baz Luhrmann.
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And the back of my brain just never leaves Baz Pitch. Same.
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He gives a grand Baz Luhrmann-y sermon to an empty auditorium.
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His appearance and acting skills obviously impressed director Baz Luhrmann and co.
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Baz Luhrmann is working on an Elvis Presley movie for Warner Bros.
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Additional repoting by Baz Ratner; Editing by Maggie Fick and Patrick Johnston
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Reporting by Baz Ratner; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Duncan Miriri
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Kidman's Moulin Rouge director and friend Baz Luhrmann was also in the stands.
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The bachelor parties would make a Baz Luhrmann remake of The Titanic blush.
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Sara Gabriela Baz Sánchez was appointed director of the Museo Nacional de Arte.
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The gunman, Rashid Baz, said he targeted the van because the group was Jewish.
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Baz Luhrmann is on the hunt for a star in his upcoming Elvis biopic.
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Also appearing in the film is an Egyptian-American scientist named Farouk El-Baz.
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In addition to Zai, a thirtysomething farmer named Baz-Mohamed Seyed-Aghol was killed.
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I've worked with Steven Spielberg, Jim Cameron, Baz Luhrmann, Danny Boyle, and Ang Lee.
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Baz Bagel, running even further with the trend, bakes its babka into bread pudding.
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He is playing the singer's manager Colonel Tom Parker and Baz Luhrmann is directing.
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At the time, Hanks was in Australia filming Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Elvis Presley movie.
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The police arrested the two men, Brusthom Ziamani and Baz Macaulay Hockton, on Monday.
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Reporting by Baz Ratner and John Ndiso; Editing by George Obulutsa and Peter Graff
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Even the hip hop-obsessed drama's Australian, Oscar-nominee creator Baz Luhrmann couldn't save it.
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In numerous religious rulings, the late grand mufti, Abdulaziz Bin Baz, condemned the Shia community.
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One of them's called "The Crown," and the other one is a Baz Luhrmann series.
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FROM PEOPLETV: Nicole Kidman Learned a "Great Life Lesson" from Baz Luhrmann During Her Divorce
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Baz is 6-foot-3 and 190 pounds and will turn 18 on June 17.
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Recently, the Australian film director Baz Luhrmann rented a house on the Macdougal Street side.
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Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman deliver perfect performances in this dazzling musical from Baz Luhrmann.
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Extras include a discussion of the film by the fans Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann.
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He is playing Colonel Tom Parker, Presley's manager, in the film directed by Baz Luhrmann.
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"Her body of work is indisputable," AMAs executive producer Baz Halpin told PEOPLE on Thursday.
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And the first season of Baz Luhrmann's "The Get Down" returns with more disco fever.
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INCARCERATION NATIONS A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World By Baz Dreisinger 325 pp.
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The former penal colony is home to spiders, bigger spiders, Tony Abbott, and Baz Lurhmann's filmmaking.
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Thai director Nattawut "Baz" Poonpiriya, whose credits include Bad Genius, will also help lead the project.
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Fans of Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film will be able to relive the magic with Moulin Rouge!
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Butler's birthday comes weeks after he was cast as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming film.
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"Thank God for Baz and all of Fox, actually, at that time," says the Lion actress.
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On August 228th, the first part of Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down is debuting on Netflix.
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"We were thinking that would be a relative punctuation mark on the whole process," Baz said.
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Raise a glass of absinthe to the Broadway adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 2212 jukebox musical film.
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The two are currently in Australia doing pre-production for Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley film. pic.twitter.
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Raise a glass of absinthe to the Broadway adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 2279 jukebox musical film.
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The miniseries will be directed by Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu and Nattawut "Baz" Poonpiriya.
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There are only 11 episodes and they're all a blast (the first one is peak Baz Luhrmann).
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Alvaro Bautista secured an eighth-placed finish for Aspar Ducati, with Avintia Ducati's Loris Baz ended ninth.
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Netflix's newest series, Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down, is getting split in two for its first season.
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The astronauts were trained in field geology by Leon Silver and Farouk El Baz, two eminent scientists.
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Austin Butler was recently cast as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming untitled drama about the singer.
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For worse and for better, "The Get Down" probably should have just been a Baz Luhrmann film.
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"It was nice to feel like we weren't being attacked, because it feels that way," Baz said.
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In the 1990s, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, Abdul Aziz ibn Baz, issued a fatwa condemning suicide operations.
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Helmand policeman Baz Gul said the air strikes had "changed the picture completely" and morale was high.
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The shot of the actress Alfre Woodard and the director Baz Luhrmann was taken by Marion Curtis/Starpix.
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This would all make him an aesthete, a romantic, an acne-scarred Romeo in a Baz Luhrmann remake.
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If the production company Global Creatures has its way, Baz Luhrmann's cancan will dance-dance to the stage.
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Some young superheroes bring hip-hop to the South Bronx in "The Get Down," created by Baz Luhrmann.
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The ultimate great-day-in-English-class movie, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, celebrated its 20th anniversary this year.
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Production on the film, which is being directed by Baz Luhrmann, is set to begin filming on Monday.
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While filming the upcoming Baz Luhrmann Elvis Presley film (starring Austin Butler) in Australia, someone notified Warner Bros.
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Last week, Islamic State fighters overran all of Darzab, according to the acting district governor, Baz Mohammad Dawar.
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Like Baz Luhrmann's film, it's a witty commentary on the inescapability of pop music in our romantic memories.
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Overseeing this whirlwind is Baz Luhrmann, whose specialty is teen-age lust, teen-age love, and aesthetic overkill.
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"The Great Gatsby" experienced a resurgence of popularity in 2013, when the Baz Luhrmann film adaptation came out.
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"Romeo + Juliet" (1996) film by Baz Lurhmann Chances are you've already seen it but if not, you're missing out.
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She found fame in Baz Luhruman's 2016 Netflix show The Get Down, where she played hopeful songstress Mylene Cruz.
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Which doesn't mean that I don't return to the original Romeo and Juliet, or Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet bonanza.
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As for shows making their Netflix debut, Baz Luhrmann's disco drama The Get Down will premiere on August 12th.
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BAZ LUHRMANN, the director of "The Great Gatsby" and "Moulin Rouge", is known for stylistic rambunctiousness, not artistic reserve.
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"Baz called me 'the boy on the roof,' I called him 'the man on the roof,'" Mr. Carrozzini said.
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The Get Down Baz Luhrmann, the mastermind behind Moulin Rogue, takes on TV with this hip-hop origin story.
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The glittery track is part of the soundtrack from Baz Luhrmann and Nas' new Netflix show, The Get Down.
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Hanks was working on Baz Lurhmann's new Elvis Presley movie in Australia when he got tested for the virus.
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They were in Australia for the pre-production of Baz Luhrmann's currently untitled Elvis Presley film from Warner Bros.
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Two rats had tunneled into the grave of his brother, Baz Mohammed, an Afghan Army soldier killed in battle.
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"The city has been turned into a military zone, people are worried and shops are closed," said resident Baz Mohammad.
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Elvis Presley will be the next musician to get the biopic treatment, in an upcoming movie directed by Baz Luhrmann.
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Romeo + Juliet Setting this scene in a pool may have been the best decision director Baz Luhrmann has ever made.
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The outing came just days after he was cast as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming biopic of the singer.
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Carbon Holdings CEO Basil El-Baz said it would take more than three years to build, according to the statement.
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The show's budget topped even Baz Luhrmann's pricey series, The Get Down, by setting Netflix back about $150 million dollars.
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FROM PEN: Nicole Kidman Learned a 'Great Life Lesson' from Baz Luhrmann During Her Divorce They even got matching tattoos recently.
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The miniseries is expected to be directed by "Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon M. Chu and Thai director Nattawut "Baz" Poonpiriya.
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Then there was Netflix's The Get Down, which has quick hits of brilliance, but often feels too, well, Baz Luhrmann-y.
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But then the Baz Luhrmann version came out and was such a big hit, suddenly we started getting into more theaters.
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I can't say I would never write him again, because the idea of, like, middle-aged Baz is fascinating to me.
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FROM PEN: Nicole Kidman Learned a 'Great Life Lesson' from Baz Luhrmann During Her Divorce As for her relationship with Comrie?
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Butler, 27, was cast as the icon in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming film, also starring Tom Hanks as the rocker's longtime manager.
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"He went from wanting to get married in a backyard to wanting something out of a Baz Lurhman movie," Leatham says.
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Baz was 6-2 with a 0.93 ERA with 96 strikeouts this season for Concordia Lutheran High School in Tomball, Texas.
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Vanessa Hudgens is over the moon after her boyfriend Austin Butler was cast as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming film.
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RHP Shane Baz was selected by the Pirates with the No. 12 pick in the first round of the MLB Draft.
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First, there's Simon Baz, who has been featured in books before, but fans have complained that he was underutilized — until now.
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El-Baz told Reuters last year he saw the project helping to double Egypt's exports within one year of coming online.
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He said that vendors were selling the supplies on the black market, and that Mr. Baz had confiscated illegally sold materials.
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But anyone looking for the slightest touch of reality or historical resonance in "The Get Down" hasn't watched enough Baz Luhrmann.
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Will, the new TNT drama about Shakespeare's life from frequent Baz Luhrmann collaborator Craig Pearce, badly wants to be punk-rock.
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Hanks and Wilson are in Australia for the pre-production of Baz Luhrmann's currently untitled Elvis Presley film from Warner Bros.
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Other characters include the wacky Countess Lily (Caroline O'Connor, of Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge," trying hard), the former mistress of Vlad.
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It&aposs being designed with for mobility, with launcher canisters mounted on the 10-wheel drive military truck chassis BAZ-69096.
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And he's so riddled with self-loathing that he can't even stand to look at Baz, which only makes things worse.
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On Wednesday, a Twitter-user named Baz made the bad mistake of trying to make a joke at the phone company's expense.
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Diggs is also starring in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Netflix drama about the birth of hip-hop in New York, The Get Down.
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In the new documentary Hunt for the Bunker People, VICE's Baz Macdonald goes looking for the bunkers of the rich and powerful.
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Baz was the guy who heads ads and there was this really awkward meeting which was clear that heads would start rolling.
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It's not just Shakespeare that was hibernating, it was Zeffirelli as well, and it was Baz Luhrmann, and it was Leo DiCaprio.
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With Baz, basically, I'm able to contact Joe Conzo directly and... talk to him directly and get photos directly from his archives.
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Baz Luhrmann's lamé and platinum-drenched Netflix drama The Get Down returns for part 2 — not season 2 — on Friday, April 7.
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Baz was a member of the 2016 under-18 U.S. National Team that won a gold medal in the Pan-Am Championships.
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Baz Luhrmann's "The Get Down", six episodes of which were released on Netflix on August 12th, cost roughly the same (see article).
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It's also electrifying and unconventional — not surprising given the music-heavy drama was created by auteur Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge).
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Watch if you like Baz Luhrmann's best and worst impulses, or you're interested in hip-hop or when the Bronx was burning.
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Not long ago I re-watched Baz Luhrmann's take on "Romeo and Juliet" starring a very young Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.
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But in the last 40 years, it was used in numerous films, from Sofia Coppola to The Get Down by Baz Luhrmann.
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Baz Dreisinger, a popular English professor and spirited voice in the prison reform movement, founded the Prison-to-College Pipeline in 2011.
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When Baz arrived, I relied on the same skills I'd developed pre-planning my career in order to handle having an infant.
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But because that's awfully hard to appreciate from the outside, it ofttimes comes couched in the trappings of a Baz Luhrmann movie.
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The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann's musical drama set in the South Bronx in the late 1970s, will not return after its first season.
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Baz Luhrmann's new Netflix series The Get Down is a fantastical bildungsroman set against the backdrop of the Bronx in the late 1970s.
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Netflix's first real teaser for The Get Down is short but colorful and energetic, which is basically what you'd expect from Baz Luhrmann.
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Luckily, Molly Baz is here to remedy that problem: She gives the notoriously complicated treat a try in a new Bon Appétit video.
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Austin Butler is a 27-year-old actor who was just cast as Elvis in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming drama about the famous singer.
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"They actually lived their magical realism," Baz Luhrmann, the show's co-creator and an executive producer, said about the youth of the era.
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There are, perhaps, less likely pairings than Baz Luhrmann and the story of hip-hop's beginnings in the South Bronx in the 1970s.
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Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" (2013) was applauded for its visuals, but the rest of the film appeared to fall flat with viewers.
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Instead of pinning a rose to his lapel, director Baz Luhrmann wore a white rose pin on his black suit jacket with pocket square.
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He recently screen-tested for the role of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming biopic, but lost out on the role to Austin Butler.
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For students slogging through English class, this is a more teacher-approved way to experience Romeo and Juliet than watching the Baz Luhrman movie.
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Part 2 of Baz Luhrmann's platform-shoe-filled Netflix musical has arrived and it picks up one year after the events of part 1.
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The film director Baz Luhrmann, his wife, Catherine Martin, an Academy Award-winning costumer designer, and Mr. Faena conceived the Art Deco fantastical aesthetic.
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Baz Luhrmann's hip-hop origin story, set in the Bronx in the 1970s, has a messy pilot but pulls itself together in subsequent episodes.
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Part of this is the influence of the creator Baz Luhrmann, who has never met a subject he wouldn't blast with a glitter cannon.
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Academy Award-nominated director Baz Lurhmann created an opulent ad for H&M's new collection with London-based fashion label Erdem, out Nov. 2.
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Production on the film, which is being directed by Baz Luhrmann and does not yet have a title, is set to begin on Monday.
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In the spring, Netflix wrapped up "The Get Down," Baz Luhrmann's big-budget look at the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx.
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Baz Zeru, 22 Dallas Favorite Friend: Chandler The first time I watched it, I thought it was going to be boring or really cheesy.
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Ghazni Hospital Director Dr. Baz Mohammad Hemat said the death toll is between 120 and 160 people and includes both military and civilian casualties.
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One success for Haibatullah, sources said, was in naming Baz Mohammad as shadow governor for Wardak province, located to the west of the capital.
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There's Riri Williams as Iron Man, Miles Morales as Spider-Man, Jessica Cruz fighting alongside Baz as Green Lantern, Amadeus Cho as the New Hulk.
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Baz Rizk, who owns the Friendly Grocer just outside Brisbane, fought back against an assailant on June 28 in a confrontation captured on surveillance video.
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Reporting by Baz Ratner and Tiksa Nigeri; Additional reporting by Kumerra Gumechu, Katharine Houreld and Maggie Fick; Writing by Maggie Fick; Editing by Jon Boyle
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The new series, helmed by Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann, is the one of the priciest productions in the streaming service's history, according to Variety.
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He's starring in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Netflix series The Get Down, and he's currently working on a new album with his hip hop group, Clipping.
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H&M has really whet our appetites for its upcoming Erdem collaboration — launching next on November 2 — with a captivating film directed by Baz Luhrmann.
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In 2001, director Baz Luhrmann's Oscar-winning movie musical about the bohemian romance of two doomed lovers, played by Kidman and Ewan McGregor, dazzled audiences.
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FROM PEN: Nicole Kidman Learned a 'Great Life Lesson' from Baz Luhrmann During Her Divorce His twin brother, Cole, stars on the TV hit Riverdale.
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This year, the platform released Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down, which reportedly cost $10 million per episode making it Netflix's most expensive show to date.
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Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Netflix series The Get Down is set in the South Bronx in 1977, and that's mostly what its latest teaser focuses on.
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Get on the bandwagon with Baz Luhrmann's genesis story of hip-hop, when some teenagers brought something to the disco era while fighting gang culture.
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Per Deadline, the couple are currently there preparing for Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Elvis Presley film, in which Hanks will play Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker.
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Production on Baz Lurhmann's Elvis Presley-focused film was halted after star Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson were confirmed to have the coronavirus.
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They were in Australia because Hanks is portraying Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in a biopic about the musician's life directed by Baz Luhrmann.
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This week, Taliban fighters killed nine pro-government militia members, including a district commander, Baz Mohammad, in the Jawzjan province in the north, officials said.
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Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann's longtime writing partner and the creator of "Will," explains the punk-rock mode as an analogy for theater in Shakespeare's day.
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"Rent: Live" was directed by Michael Greif, who oversaw the original Broadway production, and Alex Rudzinski, but they both seemed to be channeling Baz Luhrmann.
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President of the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ), Charity Jinya, told CNN that banks are working on a solution to reduce the heavy reliance on cash.
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Styles recently screen-tested for the role of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming biopic, but the singer lost out on the role to Austin Butler.
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"Walker, who is currently shooting Baz Luhrman's Elvis Presley biopic, told Insider that she believes the film will be such a success because it is "real.
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Another series from director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet) called The Get Down will follow teens in the South Bronx during the disco era.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm in a club with the 20 people who love Baz the most, and on Sundays I'm the president, but not always.
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No one is going to lie to you here: The Get Down is a bit of a mess, which is a given considering Baz Luhrmann's output.
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"The Get Down" is a new series from the "Moulin Rouge!" director Baz Luhrmann about hip-hop's origins, set in New York City in the 1970s.
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It's not like I have 20 scripts in front of me and I think, O.K., do you want to work with Baz Luhrmann or Steven Spielberg?
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My most vivid Shakespeare-related memory comes from Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet in 1996, where Leonardo DiCaprio's exquisite face can be seen through a fish tank.
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The pair are currently isolated at Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland, Australia, where they had been doing pre-production on Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley biopic.
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Currently, the couple is in Australia, where Hanks is filming Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Elvis Presley movie, and both got tested after they began feeling slightly ill.
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"The Get Down," a Netflix series about the early days of hip-hop from the filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, was canceled on Wednesday after only one season.
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Then, we read the majority of "Romeo and Juliet" together in class and analyzed different film adaptations, including Baz Luhrmann's 1996 and Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 versions.
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Every single episode of The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis's Netflix series about the early days of hip-hop, feels like a season finale.
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Co-creator Baz Luhrmann infuses The Get Down with his trademark sense of operatic spectacle, and the music — which is largely background soundtrack — is a critical component.
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Ashraf Al-Qidra, spokesman for Gaza's health ministry, said 17-year-old Muntaser al-Baz died in hospital from being shot in the head by Israeli troops.
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He also recently screen-tested for the role of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming biopic, but the singer lost out on the role to Austin Butler.
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Willis, 27, starred in the theater's tribute to Baz Luhrmann, Tarantino (based on Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino), as well as the production of Dear John Hughes.
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The show also marked the TV debut of Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann, who posted a lengthy note about the cancelation on Facebook.
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We got the "Drake & Josh" star in New York City after news broke Austin got the nod to play EP in Baz Luhrmann's movie about the icon.
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On the small screen, Baz Luhrmann's Netflix series "The Get Down" revels as only he can in the Bronx of the '70s, the dawn of hip-hop.
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Styles also recently screen-tested for the role of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming biopic, but the singer lost out on the role to Austin Butler.
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The couple was treated in isolation for coronavirus at the Queensland Hospital in Australia, where Hanks was in pre-production for Baz Luhrmann's new Elvis Presley film.
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Hanks and Wilson are currently on Australia's Gold Coast in Queensland where he is shooting a movie with director Baz Luhrmann about the life of Elvis Presley.
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Baz Mohammed, a headmaster at a school in Shajoy, said the Taliban had been attacking police posts in the Chino area for two nights in a row.
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A group of South Bronx teenagers brings something new to the disco era while fighting gang culture in this genesis story of hip-hop from Baz Luhrmann.
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That's the director Baz Luhrmann's sprawling take on the Bronx's nascent 1970s hip-hop scene, as seen through the eyes of aspiring D.J.s, rappers and graffiti artists.
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As Wayward Son begins, Simon and Baz, together at last, have begun a life of not-so-blissful domesticity, along with Simon's Hermione-esque best friend Penelope.
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The only other Netflix originals to be canceled so early are Hemlock Grove, Marco Polo, Richie Rich, and, recently, the extraordinarily expensive Baz Luhrmann joint The Get Down.
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Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down, a $120 million musical series chronicling the rise of disco and rap in the Bronx in 1970s, was canceled after its first season.
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"I am just profoundly honored that Baz has invited me on this journey with him," he told Entertainment Tonight at the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood premiere.
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Working with Baz is a real privilege as a costume designer, because it's not often about just doing the clothes—it's really creating an image for each character.
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Now, at 29, Mr. Abdul-Mateen has a key role in a big-budget Netflix production, "The Get Down," from the over-the-top Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann.
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Our sources say G and Baz spent some time in NYC last month, and Eazy made his pitch to show Luhrmann how serious he was about portraying Presley.
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Reynolds, Baz, and Everett felt helpless at times throughout the process, but they don't fault any specific person for denying their application or sending them on a runaround.
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Before Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, or his trippy take on The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrman concocted a crazy colorful world about ballroom dancing, forbidden love, and inner beauty.
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On April 15, "they beheaded a 12-year-old child on an allegation of cooperating with local police," said Baz Mohammad Dawar, 32, also a refugee from Darzab.
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On Grand Street, the Banh Mi Saigon Vietnamese sandwich shop sits just past the Baz Bagel and Restaurant, which serves $220 bagels with Nova and scallion cream cheese.
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Baz Luhrmann's "The Get Down," about 1970s New York City and the birth of hip-hop, reportedly cost $120 million to make and was canceled after one season.
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The 62-year-old Oscar winner is in talks to portray Elvis Presley's iconic manager Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's new biopic on the singer for Warner Bros.
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Herizen "Social Jungle" If you recognize Herizen from Baz Luhrman's The Get Down, then you'll go into this track with some notion of what to expect from her vocally.
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I can tweet all day long about my next book and nobody cares, but if I tweet about Baz and Simon it's different because people care about them already.
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He basically saw this marriage between us and how I could offer an understanding of how to create something beautiful and something Baz-worthy, but on a television platform.
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Hollywood newcomer Austin Butler has landed the role of Elvis Presley in Baz Lurhmann's upcoming untitled biopic, beating out big-name rivals Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, and Harry Styles.
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" "People (will) notice if you are doing something just for business purposes," he adds, saying the Instagram content is still Bin Baz, but "with a touch of the brand.
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Hanks last week announced that both he and his wife, Rita Wilson, had contracted COVID-19 while he was in Australia filming Baz Luhrmann's coming movie about Elvis Presley.
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In Baz Luhrmann's Netflix show The Get Down, which premiered in August, Diggs played a Nas-like rapper whose performances serve as a framing device for the show's narrative.
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The couple traveled to Australia's Gold Coast in late January to shoot a film; Hanks has been cast as Elvis Presley's manager in a biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann.
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His performance in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet spoke to an entire generation of young women, but many men discount the importance of that since it didn't speak to them.
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Wayward Son is pretty close to being Harry Potter fanfiction, and Simon and Baz are pretty close to being Harry and Draco, but they're not exactly the same people.
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The sign also appeared in Cold Chisel's 1984 music video, "Saturday Night" (about 3:16 in the clip) and it was given a touching tribute in Baz Lurhman's Strictly Ballroom.
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"There will always be a discussion of the results because all sides will be discussing to say, 'No, that can't be, I saw a million people myself,'" said El-Baz.
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America Ferrera couldn't be prouder of how fast her 10-month-old son Sebastian "Baz" Piers is growing — but not every milestone her baby boy reaches is without its complications.
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When Sher Baz, a police officer based in Ghazni, travels to Kabul to see his family, he often hides his identification card to avoid being targeted should he be stopped.
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Film director Baz Luhrmann and his wife, Catherine Martin, decorated the Faena Hotel in Miami Beach — but it's also known for housing one of the country's most expensive hotel rooms.
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Baz Luhrmann would not have been my first, third, or tenth choice to direct a show about how hip-hop, disco, and Ed Koch all handled New York in 1977.
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While working on "King Kong," Ms. Pavlovic heard that Baz Luhrmann, the visionary Australian director and writer, was looking to sell the stage rights to some of his film titles.
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A musical drama from co-creators Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis, this single season spectacular released to underwhelmed audiences in 2016 who dismissed it as more style than substance.
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Baz Luhrmann has been trying to recreate the success of Romeo + Juliet for the past two decades, and each subsequent attempt is more gratuitous and brain-bleedingly extravagant than the last.
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One of the top attractions is Rani Roopmati's palace,which is an ode to the tragic love story between a Hindu singer and the Muslim ruler at the time, Baz Bahadur.
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It's modestly entertaining in junior varsity Baz Luhrmann fashion, but not much more so than the endless parade of live musicals that network TV has produced over the past few years.
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So here's the deal, outside of Mad Max: Fury Road and Baz Lurhman's seminal ode to ranching, Australia, the land from Down Under has given this world of ours basically nothing.
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After releasing a sizzle reel for royal drama The Crown, the streaming service premiered a similar piece of footage for Baz Luhrmann and Shawn Ryan's '70s musical drama The Get Down.
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Zimbabwe Newspapers, which runs some of the country's biggest newspapers and several radio stations, said on Wednesday it had been issued a TV license by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ).
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Fresh off the success of her second album, "Hopeless Fountain Kingdom," whose tone splits the difference between Rihanna and Shakespeare via Baz Luhrmann, Halsey is headlining Barclays Center at 7 p.m.
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Netflix said in April it had signed a deal to make a miniseries about the rescue, to be directed by "Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon M. Chu and Nattawut "Baz" Poonpiriya.
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Twitter user Allan Xia tried the app, taking over DiCaprio's face in scenes from films such as Titanic and Baz Lurhmann's Romeo + Juliet, and more, all reportedly generated within eight seconds.
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Instead, she has to build the rapport between Simon and Baz from scratch and then she has to earn readers' investment by putting them into one life-threatening situation after another.
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To a degree, this is typical for Baz Luhrmann, the mad genius Australian film director who shepherded The Get Down to the small screen (though he directs only the first episode).
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From Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet) and The Shield's Shawn Ryan, the series follows a group of Bronx teenagers diving headfirst into the burgeoning hip-hop and punk scenes amidst chaotic social change.
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" Netflix chief Ted Sarandos told THR that "for every Baz Luhrmann [The Get Down] or every David Fincher [House of Cards], the exciting part is when there's a Duffer brothers that emerges.
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"I think all that enables incarcerated people to function in post-prison life is vital, including internet usage," added Dr. Baz Dreisinger, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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Mr. Hanks is in Australia shooting a film about Elvis Presley with the Australian director Baz Luhrmann; there were reports that at least one other person on the set had tested positive.
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"A life lived in fear is a life half lived," declares a character in the 1992 Australian film "Strictly Ballroom," the line attributed to the film's director and co-writer, Baz Luhrmann.
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A stage musical adaptation of "Moulin Rouge," Baz Luhrmann's lush dreamscape film that infused a 19th-century love story with contemporary pop music, will get a first production in Boston next summer.
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Luckily, Baz Luhrmann — The Get Down's critically acclaimed director — is the right person for the job, capable of weaving a rich visual tapestry that unearths beauty from decay, and glitter from the rubble.
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Additional reporting by Duncan Miriri, Hereward Holland, David Lewis, John Ndiso and Baz Ratner in Nairobi and Giulia Segreti in Rome; Writing by Maggie Fick; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Janet Lawrence
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For Reuters photographer Baz Ratner, who took the image, "the main challenge is how to cover the story when the protests are moving very fast in a few different focal points around Nairobi".
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This marks Netflix's second major series cancelation in as many weeks, with Baz Luhrmann's incredibly expensive musical drama The Get Down (season 1 had an estimated budget of $120 million) canceled last week.
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Baz Luhrmann, the Australian film director known for his more-is-more aesthetic, sat in a Manhattan recording studio one recent Tuesday afternoon, at a table strewn with sheet music and water bottles.
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Up first was a '20s Gatsby-esque glamour, all embellishment and feathered hems, which was fitting considering the second piece of music was featured in Baz Luhrmann's 2013 film adaptation of the novel.
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For the past 15 months, he served as an associate producer on the director Baz Luhrmann's "The Get Down," a new Netflix series that features an actor playing Mr. Saddler as a teenager.
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So far, Baz hasn't revealed who he's leaning toward casting for the part, but 5 big names -- Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Harry Styles and Austin Butler -- have tested for it.
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On March 11, one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Tom Hanks, announced that he and his wife Rita Wilson had contracted the novel coronavirus while shooting Baz Luhrmann's untitled Elvis Presley film in Australia.
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In another part of the house, the director Baz Luhrmann told Ansel Elgort, the 23-year-old actor and son of the fashion photographer Arthur Elgort, about his recent trip to Disney World.
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Guirgis's last play, Between Riverside and Crazy, won the Pulitzer in 2015, and in 2016 he and Baz Luhrmann co-created the Netflix show The Get Down, about the birth of hip-hop.
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"Of course it happens here," said a local police commander in Marja, Baz Gul, who oversees a few dozen men and was one of the residents who first took up arms against the Taliban.
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"Leo is never easy about deciding to do anything," Baz Luhrmann, who directed the Oscar-winner in 1996's Romeo + Juliet and 2013's The Great Gatsby, recently told Elvis Duran on iHeart Radio.
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In keeping with the style of its co-creator, "Moulin Rouge" director Baz Luhrmann, it's also a bit of a mess, although its infectious energy, young talent and period setting provide plenty of upside.
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Additional reporting by Maggie Fick, David Lewis and John Ndiso in Nairobi, Noor Ali in Isiolo and Baz Ratner in Kisumu; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Richard Balmforth, Robin Pomeroy and Diane Craft
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Following in the flapper footsteps of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), Hello Giggles reports that the streaming service is releasing The Last Tycoon, a nine-part series based on an unfinished Fitzgerald novel.
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Israel had suspended deliveries on April 4 after accusing Emad al-Baz, an official in Gaza's economic ministry, of diverting the supplies away from the work they were earmarked for: rebuilding private citizens' homes.
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This is my own private sexy brain time, and like that little angelic child sang in Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo & Juliet, everybody's free, everybody's free, everybody's free, to feel good, to feel good.
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While his father worked for Mr. Murdoch in Dublin, Mr. Rice was on the rise in the mogul's Los Angeles operation, helping to reel in talented up-and-comers like the director Baz Luhrmann.
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Fletcher sometimes overreaches, with respect to both spectacle and storytelling — the choreography can be as confusing as the timeline — but when it's working "Rocketman" has the earnest, extravagant energy of a Baz Luhrmann movie.
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Baz Mohammad Hemat, the director of the Ghazni Hospital, said by telephone that 13 bodies had been taken to the hospital, along with 21 people who had been wounded, most of them in uniform.
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Recently announced projects include director Baz Luhrmann's announced biography of Elvis Presley (already immortalized in multiple projects), this time starring Austin Butler as the young singer and Tom Hanks as his imperious manager, Col.
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Its 93-minute, Baz Luhrmann–directed pilot episode was a slog, and the show kept up a snail's pace until finally getting good in the last episode—if audiences even made it that far.
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Director Baz Luhrmann, who famously creates visually opulent films like Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby, has fittingly been tapped to create a scripted mini-movie that will bring the collection to life on screen.
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If she had the chance, Hosein would want to further study the representation of Muslim men, who are often depicted as violent and uncivilised—though there are some exceptions, like the Green Lantern Simon Baz.
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Reporting by Giulia Paravicini and Fiston Mahamba; Additional reporting by Stanis Bujakera, Baz Ratner, Sabiti Djaffar, Juliette Jabkhiro and Gavin Jones; Writing by Aaron Ross and Alessandra Prentice; Editing by William Maclean and Alison Williams
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A group of South Bronx teenagers, circa 1977, bring something new to the disco era while fighting gang culture in this genesis story of hip-hop with Baz Luhrmann as a creator and executive producer.
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In 2012, Simon Baz appeared in comics as a Muslim Green Lantern; depending on who you ask, the current Robin in DC Comics is from the Middle East (the son of Batman and Talia Al-Ghul).
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Farouk El-Baz, a researcher at the Boston University Remote Sensing lab, analyzed the crowds using aerial photographs at the Million Man March and concluded that between 669,000 and one million people participated in the march.
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On the professional front, Crowe told FOX News at the pre-Globes Vanity Fair party that he and fellow Aussie Nicole Kidman will costar together in an epic to be directed by Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge).
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It looks like the decision to find instances of the word "km" and replace them with "kilometres" now means that according to the game, it was the actor Hugh Jackilometresan who starred in Baz Luhrmann's Australia.
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But as I learned in speaking with Farouk El-Baz, the researcher responsible for settling the crowd dispute between the Million Man March organizers and the NPS, crowd counting is an intensely political — and costly — endeavor.
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The rapper's not among the reported top names up for consideration to play The King in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming biopic, but sources close to the project tell TMZ ... he's making a strong push to join them.
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Entering a secluded, sanctum-like section of the main gallery, which feels like a Sofia Coppola or Baz Luhrmann movie, we witness the legacy of the French royal court in fashion and fashion-adjacent visual culture.
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The Superstore star, 34, "swore off scales" well before her pregnancy, but now, five months after giving birth to her first child, son Sebastian (nicknamed Baz), she's making an extra effort to be kind to her body.
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FROM PEN: Nicole Kidman Learned a 'Great Life Lesson' from Baz Luhrmann During Her Divorce Krupa, 38, wed Zago in June 2013 in front of 150 guests, including former RHOM cast mates Adriana DeMoura and Alexia Echevarria.
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For example, when Baz Luhrman wanted to color the Verona Beach of his Romeo+Juliet as a Latino neighborhood, he placed an image of the sacred heart on Tybalt's t-shirt and another on Romeo's Hawaiian shirt.
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On this trip, he is visiting a frontline clinic in the border town of Beni with Reuters photographer Baz Ratner and reporter Alessandra Prentice to record the full impact of Ebola and gather data on its spread.
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FROM PEN:Nicole Kidman Learned a 'Great Life Lesson' from Baz Luhrmann During Her Divorce The pair first split briefly in November 2015 and later faced turmoil when Jenner's brother Rob Kardashian began dating Tyga's ex-fiancée Blac Chyna.
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Whether you're a parent or simply someone with faint high school memories, 'tis the season for inspiring commencement speeches, wishing the young graduates in your life well (with a cash gift), and digging up that Baz Luhrmann song.
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" He issued a statement on Twitter declaring his commitment to publication laws, "if they are not contrary to the Quran, the Sunna, or statements made by senior scholars Bin Baz, Bin Uthaymin or the Council of Senior Scholars.
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I wanted the fantasy In the books, music, and films that informed my early conceptions of what desire should look like, there were plenty of external obstacles (think Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet) but seemingly no internal ones.
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She's not the only celebrity being roped into the conspiracy theory, either: Tom Hanks, currently recovering from coronavirus in Australia where he was previously filming Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley film, was also "arrested," according to the conspiracy theorists.
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There is no stare quite like the one DiCaprio gives us than the one in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, wherein, as he is looking through the fish tank at Claire Danes' Juliet, we all collectively collapse into ourselves.
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The highest Saudi religious authority of the day — Abdelaziz bin Baz, a legendary blind cleric whose vision of Islam was no less medieval than that of the ayatollah's — extracted a high price for blessing the French commando operations.
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Season 13, Netflix, June 23 Period dramas about pop-culture scenes have generally come attached to men with big swinging reputations: Baz Luhrmann ("The Get Down"), Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger ("Vinyl"), Jim Carrey ("I'm Dying Up Here").
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Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie was a pop-fuelled fantasia set in a Belle Époque Paris that was mostly constructed on soundstages in Australia; theatrical artifice was the substance of its aesthetic and the thrust of its minimal plot.
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However, much of it is offset by its clever, if-Sorkin-had-a-Tumblr dialogue and its grand set and costume designs, which take equal cues from the excess of Baz Luhrman and the meticulousness of Wes Anderson.
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One of our reporters, Fahim Abed, got through on the phone to the director of Ghazni Hospital, Baz Mohammad Hemat, who spoke from a hospital floor awash in blood, bodies stacked in storerooms because the morgue was full.
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And doing dumb shit like gazing at each other under the sheets as the sunlight filters through a la that scene in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet seems like a totally acceptable way to spend 20 minutes in the morning?
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Loanne Parker tells TMZ ... Hanks is the perfect actor to play her late husband -- who was Elvis' longtime manager and helped him rise to superstardom -- in the Baz Luhrmann film, and she trusts him to portray the Colonel fairly.
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The overnight attack in the southeastern city of Ghazni, the capital of a province with the same name, also wounded at least 20 members of the security forces, said Baz Mohammad Hemat, the administrator of the Ghazni city hospital.
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Examples abound, from "My Mutant Brain," a musical comedy that Spike Jonze directed to promote the August 22004 debut of Kenzo World, to "The One That I Want," a 221 romantic drama by Baz Luhrmann for Chanel No. 21991.
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Coalition forces have used extensive airstrikes in Faryab and in neighboring Jowzjan Province, according to Afghan officials, including B-52 bombers, a hallmark of the early years of the American-led invasion, the district governor, Baz Mohammed Dawar, said.
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On Sunday, the director of the hospital in Ghazni, Baz Mohammad Hemat, said that 113 bodies had been brought there over the three days since the fighting started, mostly uniformed members of security forces, as well as 142 wounded.
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CUDDLE UP Iris, the dogs and I get into bed and cuddle up to catch up on all the Netflix series we're into like "The Get Down," Baz Luhrmann's show about musicians in the South Bronx in the 1970s.
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Directed by Baz Lurmann — the cinematic genius behind such films as The Great Gatsby, Romeo + Juliet, and Moulin Rouge — The Get Down centers on the stories of characters trying to get out of the Bronx and chase down their dreams.
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The series, executive produced by Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) and rapper Nas, will follow a group of kids living in the South Bronx as they ditch Disco in favor of a new genre of music on the rise: Hip-hop.
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A famous quote from the film, "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return," comes from Nat King Cole's song "Nature Boy," which was also used by director Baz Luhrmann in the film.
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When Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet came out, I sat in the hot damp of a small-town cinema, breath stuck in my throat, clawing the seat like a woman with rabies, as the silhouetted figure of Leonardo DiCaprio came on screen.
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When I ran into John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Baz Dreisinger in the lobby, she emphasized that the way governments think about drugs needs a complete overhaul, focusing less on prosecuting individuals and more on fixing a broken system.
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Austin's always kinda had the Elvis look going for him ... and now that he's been tabbed by director Baz Luhrmann to bring the icon to life on the big screen, Vanessa Hudgens' boyfriend somehow looks even more like a hound dog.
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This kind of attention to detail is what drives Baz Luhrmann's exuberant, lopsided, and lavish Netflix series, The Get Down, which can't possibly fall down every musical rabbit hole that New York in the '70s had to offer, but certainly tries.
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He teamed up with the movie director Baz Luhrmann and the actress Nicole Kidman to make short promotional films; Mr. Lagerfeld later directed the actresses Cara Delevingne and Kristen Stewart and the singer Pharrell Williams in his own minifeatures about Chanel.
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There were celebrated filmmakers (Baz Luhrmann, Kenneth Lonergan, Griffin Dunne, Darren Aronofsky, Whit Stillman and Paul Schrader), actors (Justin Theroux, Tavi Gevinson, John Turturro, Sienna Miller, Isabelle Huppert) and musicians (Marky Ramone and Jack Antonoff, who became famous 30 years apart).
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" FROM PEN: Nicole Kidman Learned a 'Great Life Lesson' from Baz Luhrmann During Her Divorce On Thursday, a rep for the Shahs star released a follow-up statement to PEOPLE: "GG just wants to move on and put this mistake behind her.
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FROM PEN: Nicole Kidman Learned a 'Great Life Lesson' from Baz Luhrmann During Her Divorce Most recently, Kelly, 37, sparked romance rumors last fall after being spotted in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with Wilmer Valderrama, to whom she was briefly linked in 2012.
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We'll also be checking in on Netflix's The Get Down musical drama created by Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis; AMC's Fear the Walking Dead post-apocalyptic TV series; and Halt and Catch Fire's third season which made an early premiere last night.
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As an artist who is known for her outspoken interviews and over-the-top music videos (her "Now or Never" video was a nod to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet), she has a quality suggestion for the social media team over at Planned Parenthood.
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Fresh off the success of her second album, "Hopeless Fountain Kingdom," whose tone splits the difference between Rihanna and Shakespeare via Baz Luhrmann, Halsey is headlining Barclays Center with support from PartyNextDoor and Charli XCX, two pop royals in the making themselves.
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In a short amount of time, Mr. Abdul-Mateen, 32, has made his mark as a charismatic actor, most notably in "The Get Down," a 2016 Netflix series directed by Baz Luhrmann in which he played a disco-dancing gangster named Cadillac.
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With this series, the Coens will join other big-screen directors who have recently dipped their toes into TV, including Woody Allen ("Crisis in Six Scenes"), Baz Luhrmann ("The Get Down") and David O. Russell, who is developing a drama series for Amazon.
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The first follows Leone, Saffitz, Molly Baz, Carla Lalli Music, Andy Baraghani, and Chris Morocco trying to make the perfect pizza by examining each part in detail — the sauce, the crust, the cheese — before putting it all back together for the perfect pie.
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When Baz Luhrmann trotted out Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in a romantic, visually explosive musical where they sang pop-rock covers like Elton John's "Your Song" in a stylized, refreshing way, the people were smitten, even if critics had mixed feelings.
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It makes sense that TV-makers have begun to explore this material, with the excellent second season of "Fargo" and new projects due from Baz Luhrmann (South Bronx, disco, black and Latino) and David Simon (Times Square, porn, James Franco playing twins).
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When 20th Century Fox was selling Baz Luhrmann's hit "Moulin Rouge!" in 2001, the studio was so afraid that people would stay home if they knew it was a musical that the trailer rather awkwardly tried to avoid singing at all costs.
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Per the aesthetic of Baz Luhrmann ("Moulin Rouge"), who directed the first episode and produced the other five, every detail pops — every glistening thigh in tight short shorts, every half-empty soda bottle making a just-so clink, every gaudy print on every polyester collar.
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It would be a lie to say that the legacy of humanity's most famous playwright has remained untouched since then—countless directors and writers, including auteurs as idiosyncratic as Baz Luhrmann and Derek Jarman, have attempted to put their own spin on his works.
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"The truth is that there was a lot of motivation, a lot of enthusiasm to see this game in Mexico," said Sergio Baz Ferreira, the president of the Bufalos de Toluca football team and the president of the American Football Hall of Fame of Mexico.
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To get a better understanding of why counting crowds on the National Mall is particularly fraught, I spoke with Farouk El-Baz, the academic responsible for settling the crowd dispute between the Million Man march organizers and the National Park Service (NPS) in 1995.
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He was wearing the same outfit in all of the videos I watched (one of those silky Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet shirts and an orange trilby) and spoke with the kind of chipper, inoffensive, Scrappy Doo-esque intonation that doesn't really exist in the physical realm.
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Even so, the suspension was not lifted until the Gaza government had given back the supplies it was accused of diverting and had removed Mr. Baz from his post, according to a statement by the Israeli government agency that deals with civil affairs in the Palestinian territories.
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By the end of this smart, shameless and extravagantly entertaining production, adapted from Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie, you'll think you've heard fragments of every Top 40 song of lust and longing that has been whispered, screamed or crooned into your ear during the past several decades.
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It's a little bit Cirque du Soleil, a little bit Kit Kat Klub (with Lea DeLaria in the Joel Grey M.C. role), all with a naughty-high-school-drama vibe, as if Baz Luhrmann and David Lynch had collaborated on an after-hours club inside a Walmart.
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Of course, all of that said, the concept of original soundtracks is by no means new to Fifty Shades; numerous similar projects have happened in recent years, including the Twilight franchise, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, and blockbusters Snow White and the Huntsman and Tron: Legacy.
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This isn't the first blockbuster to have a soundtrack produced by a pop star — Lorde curated the soundtrack for The Hunger Games, Jay-Z did Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby — but it is the first time that Marvel has hired one or commissioned original songs for a film.
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The rooms are part of the installation "The Writing on the Wall," a collaboration between the conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, the English professor Baz Dreisinger, the design studio Openbox and the architectural firm MASS Design Group to draw attention to the estimated 11 million people in prison worldwide.
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Shakespeare's devastating play may never have been quite as lush and surreal as it was in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 take, which depicted the star-crossed lovers (here played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes) trying desperately to make things work between their families in modern day Venice, California.
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The Musical, Danny Burstein, Tam Mutu, Sahr Ngaujah, Karen Olivo & Aaron Tveit, principal soloists; Justin Levine, Baz Luhrmann, Matt Stine & Alex Timbers, producers (Original Broadway Cast) The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – In Four Contemporary Suites, Imogen Heap, producer; Imogen Heap, composer (Imogen Heap) Oklahoma!
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Based on Baz Luhrmann's film of the same title, this hedonist's delight of an extravaganza, set in a fin-de-siècle show palace, goes over the top and stays there, in some giddy ether where it feels as if every pop song you ever heard is played in perpetuity.
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Headed up by Baz Luhrmann, The Get Down is a Bronx fairy tale about the birth of hip-hop and the zenith of disco; a story about young street poets trying to get by as the borough burns around them and the world slowly conspires to smother their dreams.
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Simon begins the book pining for blonde Agatha, whom he believes to be his happy ending, but as he keeps getting distracted from her by thinking about how much he hates his school rival Baz (who is maybe a vampire!), it becomes clear that Simon's true interests lie elsewhere.
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He's also got his hyperactive visuals on lock; highlights included a gaudy, gold, art-deco "Aoki" that looked like an ad for Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby, as well as a questionably tasteful graphic that rendered a pack of animated Aokis into a mariachi band (accompanying a vaguely Latin-sounding beat, natch).
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"'Emo… but do it on TikTok' is the new definitive Gen Z subculture," Ryan Bassil reports: If this is all new to you, here's an e-boy primer, starting with how they look: their hair is styled like Leonardo DiCaprio's as Baz Luhrmann's Romeo, via Michael Pitt in The Dreamers.
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From Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids (being turned into a TV miniseries), to Rachel Kushner's 21973 novel The Flamethrowers, set in part in the 21973s Soho art scene, to Baz Luhrmann's upcoming TV series about 2297s New York music scenes, plenty of current media looks back on this era with reverence.
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The Baz Luhrmann-created (and partially directed) musical epic chronicled the last days of disco and the rise of rap through the lives of several teenagers growing up in the Bronx at the end of the '70s, and the costumes, music, and casting were clearly too good for this world to support.
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This bombastic, enchanting and altogether magical Broadway musical, based on the Oscar-nominated 2001 film of the same name by Baz Lurhmann, is a love letter to love, most especially the all-consuming, desperate kind of love that songwriters have been trying to put into words over and over again for centuries.
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Baz really does her homework here, speaking with a food scientist as well as Darren Wong, the man who popularized the raindrop cake in the U.S. She ends up with a "visually stunning" PB&J-flavored creation all her own, which seems to taste about as delicious as a raindrop cake can taste.
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Baz Luhrmann and Nelson George (Saturday) Mr. Luhrmann, the imaginative director of "Moulin Rouge" and "The Great Gatsby," speaks with Mr. George, an author and director of the Misty Copeland documentary "A Ballerina's Tale," to discuss their coming Netflix series "The Get Down" as part of the Tribeca Film Festival's discussion series.
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The centerpiece of this luxury-porn buffet is a wedding so ostentatiously over-the-top that Baz Luhrmann would probably describe it as "a bit much" – and yet instead of laughing out loud at the sheer ridiculousness of it all, I found myself tearing up over an intense look shared between Nick and Rachel.
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The only songs I remember hearing on the speakers were the Lana Del Rey song from the soundtrack of Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby, the Talking Heads song that is on the 201 Going on 53 soundtrack, and Harry Belafonte's "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)," which is from a critical scene in Beetlejuice.
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Wenger is a suave, sophisticated economics graduate who gets invited to debonair fashion shoots and high-society soirées, while Dyche looks like he probably has a best mate called 'Baz' and that his idea of the perfect night is going to get a chicken jalfrezi with the lads before necking seven pints of Ruddles Best.
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A young William Shakespeare (Laurie Davidson) is transported from sleepy Stratford-upon-Avon into a punk-rock theater scene in 16th-century London, where he falls in with the Burbage family — father James (Colm Meaney), daughter Alice (Olivia DeJonge) and son Richard (Mattias Inwood) — in this creation from Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann's longtime writing partner.
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The Get Down traces the coming of age of five teenagers and the birth of hip hop in the late 1970s in the Bronx, as director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, among others) brings his signature collage filmmaking style to a project that perhaps tries to do too much but always feels deeply, deeply human.
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The new Stars Hollow is revealed as a backlot facade when Rory and Logan decide to stand on top of one of the fake roofs during a incredibly long, Baz Luhrmann-y steampunk musical sequence soundtracked by The Beatles "With a Little Help From My Friends," the rights to which must have cost a small fortune.
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While a show's budget doesn't guarantee great results—Baz Luhrmann's The Getdown allegedly cost a record-breaking $120 million, but was canceled after one season—it might explain the increase in shows that feel more haphazard and made-for-TV, like the campy Chilling Adventures of Sabrina or reality-style shows like Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.
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The actor Tom Hanks (whose "A Hologram for the King" is on the festival schedule) will speak with the television host John Oliver; the filmmaker and actress Jodie Foster will sit down with the director Julie Taymor; and Baz Luhrmann, creator of the coming Netflix series "The Get Down," will talk with the writer Nelson George.
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"The Transmigration of Bodies," by Yuri Herrera, is a slim and potent novel about an unnamed city emptied out by plague, and one character's desperate scramble to unite two warring clans (think Baz Luhrmann's film "Romeo and Juliet," but set in the landscape of "Children of Men" and written in the jagged-glass prose of James Cain).
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In episode five of The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann's six hour series which premiered on Netflix in early August, we meet a 22-year-old Kool Herc on a fictional version of that legendary night on Sedgwick Ave; he's now a fly American young man with a full beard and fro, decked out in 70s grandpa glasses, tan suit, and a gold medallion around his neck.
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I can't even begin to describe the vibe of this movie, but it's sort of like director Sion Sono tried to adapt The Warriors into a West Side Story-esque musical, filmed it in the style of Baz Lurhman's Romeo + Juliet, made it so violent and sexual that it would never be able to be theatrically released in America, and had all of the actors rap their lines.
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The scandal comes amid a renewed mainstream interest in old-school hip-hop and the genre's roots, fueled partly by the success of Baz Luhrmann's new Netflix series, The Get Down, the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, and a slew of documentaries, including Ice-T's Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap and Shan Nicholson's chronicle of gang culture in the Bronx, Rubble Kings, in which Bambaataa plays a prominent role.
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We all know that "Hopeless Fountain Kingdom" was a concept album based on "Romeo and Juliet" — Halsey hammered the inspiration in every interview she did about the project, and all her visuals and music videos from that era played off of Baz Luhrmann's 1996 adaptation — so to introduce the album by literally reading the prologue of Shakespeare's play was just unnecessary and, dare I say, a little eye roll inducing.
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There are three great exhibitions on view: Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, broken into four sections and downright breathtaking; The Writing on the Wall: Hank Willis Thomas and Dr. Baz Dreisinger, a presentation of letters, stories, and notes written by individuals in prison all over the world (they were collected by Professor Dreisinger while teaching in various prisons); and Connectivity: Selections from the Collection of the Frost Art Museum.
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