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Think Chewbacca’s luxurious brown mane is wash-and-go? Guess again. 'Allure' beauty writer Jenna Rosenstein recently interviewed Maria Cork, the Jedi Master—ahem, supervisor—of the hair department in creature effects on 'The Force Awakens.'

Kirstin Fawcett


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Baltimore-born filmmaker John Waters has been shocking audiences with his transgressive cult films for the past 50 years.

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Loosely based on the unlikely true story of the Jamaican bobsled team that participated in the 1988 Winter Olympics, Jon Turteltaub's 'Cool Runnings’s legacy endures more than two decades years later.

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Sean Connery helped guide Terry Gilliam through the beginning—and the ending—of the children's (sort of) classic.

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Few franchises have had the cultural impact of the various 'Star Trek' television series and movies, and nowhere is that more evident than in the snippets of dialogue that have become a part of the American vernacular.

Rick Marshall