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Why Nicolas Cage Changed His Name Last Year

Why Nicolas Cage Changed His Name Last Year

Published by Sam Flores

Born Nicolas Kim Coppola, the actor known Nicolas Cage famously attended his earliest auditions under that pseudonym, telling Vanity Fair “I wanted to create a kind of wild and artistic and bizarre image,” one separate from his internationally famous uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola. The Oscar-winning actor, who is currently starring in Amazon Prime series Spider Noir, finally made that name change official last year, the 62-year-old said in a new interview, after a long life with a double identity. Speaking with Variety, the newly-minted official Cage said “I am Nick Cage. I changed my name legally last year. I’m Nick Cage in life, and I’m Nick Cage on camera.” “‘Tis better to be the patriarch of my own little family than the clown cousin on the margins of someone else’s,” the self-aware star said. “So I decided I’m going to bring it on and be ‘Cage.’” Though he’s gone by the “Cage” last name since his role as Randy in 1983’s Valley Girl, the actor was still eager to explain how he chose his …

Sofia Coppola taps the whimsy of ’90s Marc Jacobs

Sofia Coppola taps the whimsy of ’90s Marc Jacobs

Published by Sam Flores

Slumped into folding chairs inside his New York studio, renowned designer Marc Jacobs and his brand’s creative director, Joseph Carter, ponder the mood of Jacobs’ Spring 2024 ready-to-wear collection. Jacobs and Carter had spent days stacking wigs onto more wigs, playing with cartoonishly large shapes from head to toe, trying to see what beauty and accessories might look best with the collections’ oversized garments. Behind the camera, Jacobs’ friend and occasional creative collaborator, Sofia Coppola, asks whether they’re favoring a serious look, or something more eccentric — in line with Jacobs’ reputation. “We’re leaning towards entertainment,” Jacobs says, before a wry smile creeps onto his face. “And joy.” Fusing couture-level spectacle with crowd-pleasing performance has long been Jacobs’ M.O. Since his early days designing for Perry Ellis, fresh off a winning showcase at the Parsons School of Design’s end-of-term fashion show, Jacobs has relished throwing a wrench in the system. In the early ’90s, a distinct penchant for mischief and a grittily glamorous New York edge quickly earned Jacobs the moniker of fashion’s bad boy. …

Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola on Their Shared Punk Ethos and What Really Happened After His Perry Ellis Grunge Collection

Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola on Their Shared Punk Ethos and What Really Happened After His Perry Ellis Grunge Collection

Published by Sam Flores

Marc, having followed your career and having seen the documentary, I would consider you to be quite a forward-looking person. What was it like to have to step back and do a kind of retrospective of your own career at this point? Coppola: I do consider you to be a forward-looking person—or present, right? Jacobs: I try to be. It wasn’t intentional, but seeing the movie, I realized, through this last process of the last show, how inspired and how excited I was by the past and how it does come up for me repeatedly in whatever my present is. It was great to see them, especially the ’90s, like the X-Girl show. Coppola: I hadn’t thought about that time, so it was fun to revisit. Jacobs: It just took me back to that moment, how different life was then, and there were no smartphones. Coppola: It was just kind of looser and you’d run into people. Jacobs: Just being reminded of those memories feels kind of nice. Marc, there’s a point in the documentary …

Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas: The toxic friendship that built modern Hollywood

Spielberg, Coppola and Lucas: The toxic friendship that built modern Hollywood

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter George Lucas should have died. It was 1962; the 17-year-old had just crashed his yellow Autobianchi convertible into a walnut tree, in Modesto, California. The car rolled, bounced and came to rest – it was “beyond mangled, flipped upside down and twisted like a crushed Coke can against the tree”, writes Paul Fischer in his new book, The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema. When the teenager woke in hospital two weeks later, his heart having nearly stopped, he had a new philosophy: “Maybe there’s a reason I survived this accident that nobody should have survived.” If Lucas’s near-death experience shaped everything that followed, the other protagonists in Fischer’s rollicking, well-researched book – Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg – arrived in Hollywood just as bruised. Coppola’s childhood polio left him …

Sofia Coppola twins with mini-me daughter at glamorous NYC event

Sofia Coppola twins with mini-me daughter at glamorous NYC event

Published by Daniella Wilson

Sofia Coppola’s daughter Cosima was the spitting image of her famous mom as the pair stepped out in New York at the Marc Jacobs runway show.  The Oscar-winning director looked chic in a black and white striped shirt, baggy black pants and a black coat over the top, while her 15-year-old daughter opted for a blue knit sweater, white linen pants and a black jacket to ward off the cold. Cosima accessorized with an off-white handbag and black shoes, and wore her long brunette locks straight down past her shoulders. She stood at the same height as Sofia, with the pair looking like twins at the fashion show. © Getty Images for Marc JacobsCosima looked just like her famous mom at the NYC show Sofia shares a close friendship with Marc and even directed his 2025 documentary Marc by Sofia. Her eldest daughter, Romy, appeared in a 2020 Marc Jacobs campaign at 13 years old, with the famed designer sharing how meaningful it was to collaborate with her. “I met you, Romy, shortly after you …

Sofia Coppola: Not just for girls

Sofia Coppola: Not just for girls

Published by Sam Flores

It’s fitting that Sofia Coppola’s new movie is called “Somewhere,” an apt title for a filmmaker whose works are grounded in a sense of place and yet feel as if they’re taking place in their own hermetically sealed world. The same qualities that got “Lost in Translation” lauded for its dreamy atmosphere prompted attacks on “Marie Antoinette” for being cosseted and self-indulgent, which had more to do with critics’ sympathies toward the former’s melancholy May-December romance and their hostility to the feminine frippery of the latter than any profound shift between the two. (Anthony Lane’s New Yorker review of “Marie Antoinette” remains one of the most sexist pieces of criticism I’ve ever read.) A few of the same brickbats have been lobbed at “Somewhere,” but in the main the story of divorced action-movie star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) bottoming out at the Chateau Marmont has met with a warmer reception, winning the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. As he sleepily watches twin strippers gyrate in his hotel room and cops a fake smile …