Factotum fun for author's fans Sep 9, 2006
Dillon has the funny, deadpan delivery of a man trying to function in an out-of-focus world, and indie queen Lili Taylor has some good moments as Jan, the alcoholic soul mate Henry picks up in a bar and lives with intermittently ... Cast: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Fisher Stevens. (The Miami Herald)
Bukowski in the flesh Sep 8, 2006
"Yeah, uh, in my spare time, I construct statues of pumas out of old VHS tape." Matt Dillon lies to Lili Taylor in "Factotum." ... Starring: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens, Marisa Tomei and James Cada ... He shacks up with an equally depressive woman named Jan (Lili Taylor). (Daily Utah Chronicle, UT)
Lyric foments Revolution in '1776' Sep 8, 2006
Hare product ions Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will present a staged reading on Monday of David Hare's ``Stuff Happens," a political commentary on how and why we went to war in Iraq. The fund-raiser, which features WHAT regulars as well as Gloria Reuben, Avery Corman, Lili Taylor, and John Rothman, among other celebs, will be held at Town Hall in Provincetown. Tick-ets: $30, $50; 508-349- 9428 , . . . . Hare's ``Via Dolorosa," starring Jonathan Epstein, will take a break from its run at the... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Matt Dillon looks through the glass starkly Sep 8, 2006
IFC FILMS PICKUP ARTIST: Indie queen Lili Taylor plays Matt Dillon's alcoholic soul mate ... Essentially plotless, Factotum follows Chinaski as he navigates through a series of menial jobs, doing as little work possible along the way, drinking the bulk of his wages and sleeping with a procession of like-minded women (including Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei). (The Miami Herald)
'Factotum' a labor of love for Matt Dillon Sep 4, 2006
Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei play women who fall into Chinaski's turbulent life. It was directed by Norwegian-born Bent Hamer, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jim Stark, a longtime producer of Jim Jarmusch's films. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
"Factotum": A life of the rocks Sep 3, 2006
Matt Dillon plays Charles Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, in "Factotum" with Lili Taylor ... "Factotum," with Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Fisher Stevens, Didier Flamand ... She's brought fiercely to life by Lili Taylor. (Seattle Times)
Interview: 'Factotum' lights up Matt Dillon's smokin' career Sep 1, 2006
ONLINE EXTRAS SITE SERVICES LISTINGS. Friday, Sep 01, 2006 Entertainment Posted on Thu, Aug. 31, 2006. (Pioneer Press -- Entertainment)
<< Bard of the bar Sep 1, 2006
Chris Carlson, Jim Brockhohn, Tony Lyons, Karen Young, Adrienne Shelly, Didier Flamand, Fisher Stevens, Marisa Tomei, Lili Taylor, Matt Dillon. DIRECTOR. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Entertainment)
more » Sep 1, 2006
It gracefully combines the bleak world of the despairing poet and novelist with the droll point of view of Norwegian director Bent Hamer and the distinctly American independent acting sensibility of stars Matt Dillon and Lili Taylor. This may sound ungainly, but the result is a surprisingly satisfying film, true to Bukowski and itself, a work that manages to make the man and his profane world more palatable without compromising on who he was and what he stood for. (CTNow.com)
<< Bang! Bang! Aug 31, 2006
Catch Benicio Del Toro and Lili Taylor in a Warhol-related double feature of "Basquiat" and "I Shot Andy Warhol." ... "I Shot Andy Warhol" tells the life story of feminist Valerie Solanas (played by Lili Taylor), who shot Warhol in 1968. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Entertainment)
Serial Cinephiles Aug 30, 2006
Catch Benicio Del Toro and Lili Taylor in a Warhol-related double feature of "Basquiat" and "I Shot Andy Warhol." 6 and 8 pm Thu, Aug. 31, 2006. San Diego, CA$7-$10. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Entertainment)
Tales of Ordinary Minneapolis Aug 30, 2006
In one short scene from the movie, Chinaski storms into a bar, decks his girlfriend Jan (Lili Taylor, who with nonchalant humor and toughness takes one of Bukowski's cipher-harlots and turns her into a real character), and then shouts, "If anybody here doesn't like what I just did, then say something!" The bar's patrons, including an extra played by Spider John Koerner, mimic Bukowski's cult by remaining silent. Hey, they've got shots to polish off. (City Pages)
Fall Movie Preview Aug 27, 2006
Also stars Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei. R.. (CTNow.com)
Here's to booze, sex and smokes -- but not the work that gets in ... Aug 26, 2006
Starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei ... He meets Jan (Lili Taylor) and moves in with her, and this is all they do: drink, smoke, have sex, talk about drinking, look forward to drinking or talk about sex. (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Factotum' is a too-tidy look at a glorious mess Aug 25, 2006
He only feels at home in the invisible stratum of Los Angeles: the bars, the racetracks, shacked up in a crummy apartment with Jan (the glorious Lili Taylor ), a floozy who welcomes sex ``as if it was a knife that was killing her. "``Factotum" gets a lot of absurdist mileage out of the hero's predicaments -- there's a memorable run-in with a wealthy sot played by Marisa Tomei , who introduces Henry to her lover, an aging Frenchman (Didier Flamand ) with a ramshackle yacht -- and Dillon's... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Matt Dillon boozes it up as Charles Bukowski's alter ego Aug 24, 2006
Dillon is joined by Lili Taylor, who plays Jan, a fellow boozer. The two end up living together, breaking up, and getting back together again. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Interview: Matt Dillon Aug 23, 2006
"I much prefer [smaller films]. It's funny The budget of the Kraft Service on You, Me and Dupree probably was four times as big as the entire budget of Factotum. Dillon's career has seesawed between studio and independent projects since breaking through in the early 80's on films like The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. With movie star good looks, Dillon has noticeably strayed from bigger mainstream releases in the course of his career. Comedies have been an exception, lending an unforgettable toothy... (IGN FilmForce)
People say films like `Factotum' are his comeback, but Matt Dillon doesn't see it that way Aug 20, 2006
Like the book, the film uses the author's alter ego persona of Henry ``Hank" Chinaski as a device to portray him as an impoverished younger man already set in his literary ambitions and alcoholic ways. Lili Taylor plays opposite Dillon as Chinaski's on-again, off-again lover.There is a bright, cheerful confidence in Dillon's voice -- a touch of braggadocio -- as he talks about alcohol. His eyes have a gleam beneath his dark brows. He leans back on the couch in his hotel suite, then pushes... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Dillon Goes For Broke Aug 20, 2006
Dillon laughs when recalling the scene in the film in which he stands butt-naked while co-star Lili Taylor wraps his privates in a bandage before sending him off to a job interview, having given him the aforementioned crabs. Dillon's come a long way from the days when he turned down "The Blue Lagoon" because it required him to take off his pants. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Bukowski deserves better than Factotum Aug 18, 2006
Starring: Matt Dillon, Marisa Tomei, Lili Taylor, Didier Flamand, Karen YoungDirector: Bent HamerRun time: 1 hour, 34 minutesMPAA rating: R ... He wanders from woman to woman, mainly the clingy Jan (Lili Taylor, who looks so grubby and trashy in some scenes shes downright vulgar). (MSNBC -- Movies)
Review: Short Takes on Week's New Films Aug 18, 2006
Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei co-star. R for language and sexual content. (Herald-Tribune)
Factotum turns a lens on Bukowskis dark life Aug 18, 2006
Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei play two of his love interests. One challenge is the lack of dramatic arc in the story, Hamer says. (MSNBC)
JENNIFER MERIN Aug 17, 2006
Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei give flawless performances ... Jim worked before with Lili Taylor. (New York Press)
Movie File: Lindsay Lohan, Nick Cannon, Johnny Depp, Mark Wahlberg, Kristen Bell & More Aug 17, 2006
" "You'll see me in the raw in one scene, which is in a very funny sequence with Lili Taylor where she gives me crabs," Dillon promised, saying he does stop short of pulling a full-on Harvey Keitel. "No, you wouldn't have wanted to see me full-frontal, because I've contracted the crabs in that one, and she ties up a sumo diaper on me. Which I never thought I'd find as amusing in a film as I did. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Even superwoman Uma can't pull this off Aug 5, 2006
We witness Bettie's rise to fame, from an unassuming Tennessee belle in Depression-era Nashville, to the studios of Movie Star News, where photographers Irving and Paula Klaw (Chris Bauer, Lili Taylor) reinvented her as a whip-cracking erotic icon of her time. CSA: Confederate States of America (12A) Faux documentary imagining what might have happened if the British and French had joined forces to defeat the North at Gettysburg, thereby altering the course of American history. (Scotsman)
Mary Harron: The notorious queen of cool Jul 29, 2006
For the film, Harron pulled out all the stylish stops, employing many of the ensemble cast, such as Lili Taylor and Jared Harris, who had worked on her first feature, I Shot Andy Warhol, that told the tale of Valerie Solanis, her Society For Cutting Up Men and her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol in 1968. On its release, I Shot Andy Warhol was the hippest film on the block as it accurately portrayed New York at its most decadent, its most attractive and its most provocative. (Independent)
Worth the drive Jul 28, 2006
Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei also appear. The film screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 92nd St. Y's Steinhardt Building, 35 W. 67th St. in NYC. A discussion between Dillon and David Sterritt, chairman of the National Society of Film Critics, follows the movie. (Times Herald-Record, NY -- Entertainment)
Woods Hole Festival thrives on films with local roots Jul 23, 2006
Movies Restaurants Food Calendar Music Theater/Arts TV Books Celebrity news Games. Sweeney road trip hits Woods Hole. (Boston Globe -- Living)
No short cuts to Carver's truths Jul 19, 2006
The junket was in New York at the New York Film Festival and it teemed with its celebrity cast - everyone from Tim Robbins, Buck Henry and Matthew Modine to Lili Taylor, Annie Ross and Andie MacDowell. It was, in itself, a mini-fame festival, a small, self-congratulatory convocation of the good life in this particular tier (i. (Buffalo News -- Arts)
July 2006: A Calendar of Entertainment Events In The Area Jun 29, 2006
" Chris Bauer and Lili Taylor are the pornographer Irving Klaw and his sister, and David Strathairn plays Sen. Estes Kefauver, whose Senate hearings brought an end to the Klaws' smut mill. Rated R; for nudity, sexual content and some language. 100 min. WHEN: 8 p.m. July 28, 29; 2 p.m. July 30. TICKETS: $6 adults, $4 students/seniors. LOCATION: Polk Theatre. 682-7553.FRIDAY FEST BartowStreet party with music by Taboo, food, children's entertainment. This special event is part of a weekend... (The Ledger)
Bukowski blues Jun 16, 2006
Matt Dillon and Lili Taylor in Factotum ... Bent Hamer's adaptation of Bukowski's 1975 novel Factotum, starring Matt Dillon as the author's alter-ego Henry "Hank" Chinaski, with Lili Taylor (I Shot Andy Warhol) and Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny) as his alcoholic muses, is one of the better attempts at putting the drunken bard on screen ... Stars Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Summer fest s offer distinguished rosters Jun 11, 2006
Those honorees include actress Lili Taylor, who will receive the Excellence in Acting Award on Friday. Four of her films will be shown during the festival, including the new ``Factotum," an adaptation of the Charles Bukowski novel that stars Matt Dillon.Peterson also chose filmmaker Gregg Araki to receive the festival's Filmmaker on the Edge award, which last year went to director Mary Harron (who, coincidentally, directed Taylor in ``The Notorious Bettie Page" and ``I Shot Andy Warhol").... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Arts Entourage's Leading Man After countless indelible but tiny roles, Jeremy Piven is ready to go really big Jun 3, 2006
"I could actually be a lot bigger," he says, crediting his theater work in Chicago, where his parents ran a company that trained such actors as John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Aidan Quinn, Lili Taylor and Lara Flynn Boyle. When he got his job at Second City, the improv group sent out the former high school linebacker in a troupe separate from hyper Saturday Night Live comedian Chris Farley's. (Time.com)
Gretchen Mol pins down role in 'Bettie Page' May 26, 2006
The humor comes from the exuberance Page exudes and matter-of-factness of her employers, Irving and Paula Klaw (Chris Bauer and Lili Taylor). The comedy or tragedy of these good people setting off psychic depth charges in their customers rarely surfaces -- and when it does, it's usually secondhand. (SunSpot.net)
'Notorious' is bound to disappoint fans (2 stars out of 5) May 26, 2006
Cast: Gretchen Mol, David Strathairn, Lili Taylor, John Cullum ... Lili Taylor and Chris Bauer play the New York smut merchants who employ Bettie, always emphasizing the consensual, adult and harmless nature of their postcards, films and magazines and the harmlessness of their clients. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Woodstock Film Festival Summer Benefit & Auction May 25, 2006
Esteemed industry members who have appeared at WFF include Steve Buscemi, David Strathairn, Ethan Hawke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Mira Nair, Peter Gabriel, Lili Taylor, Laura Linney, Parker Posey, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Marcia Gay Harden, Ismail Merchant, Annabella Sciorra, Olympia Dukakis, Tim Robbins, Tim Blake Nelson, Aidan Quinn, Liev Schreiber, Griffin Dunne, Fisher Stevens, Barbara Kopple, Elmer Bernstein, Haskell Wexler, D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, Ron Nyswaner, Rebecca Miller,... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Summer sizzles May 22, 2006
Who's Who: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei. What's What: Bent Hamer's adaptation of the Charles Bukowski novel, in which his alter-ego (Dillon) pursues his writing ambitions despite the lures of wine, women and gambling. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Movie Openings May 20, 2006
" 144 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for intensity.) (Jeff Simon) Opens today in area theaters. THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON. Starring Daniel Johnston. Directed by Jeff Feurzeig. A revealing documentary on indie-rock cult fave Daniel Johnston, who suffers from mental illness. 110 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for drug content, language.) Opens today in the Dipson Market Arcade. See review on Page 6. THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE. Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, David Strathairn and Chris Bauer in Mary Harron's life of... (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Screening Room (May 19, 2006) May 19, 2006
Lili Taylor, David Strathairn and Jared Harris co-star. No Review. (FOX4 Kansas City, MO)
The Da Vinci Code, The Notorious Bettie Page, Over the Hedge May 19, 2006
" It seems they purposely wanted to keep the movie - which, after all, touches on such dark subjects as spousal abuse, gang rape and government censorship - psychologically superficial. Not unlike pornography, in its way, only with a cheeky undercurrent of cultural criticism from a whip-smart, feminist perspective. As for the icon herself, Gretchen Mol looks improbably accurate (the lithe, fair-featured actress and Page don't really resemble one another at all), exhibits no fear (while showing... (Times Herald-Record, NY -- Entertainment)
Garner tears up on 'Good Morning' May 17, 2006
Meanwhile, at the Provincetown International Film Festival, ''Mysterious Skin" director Gregg Araki will receive the Filmmaker on the Edge award, and Lili Taylor the Excellence in Acting honors. Both festivals run from June 14-18.MFA anniversary Museum of Fine Arts director Malcolm Rogers marked the 50th anniversary of the MFA Associates this week by playing ''Happy Birthday" on the piano at a party. And the associates in turn announced they've created an endowment to fund the museum's film and... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Balancing Acts May 10, 2006
Indie queen Lili Taylor flips the script Film - Feb 1, 2006. Bertolucci's 'Conformist' hero stalks normality Film - Dec 7, 2005. (City Pages)
Pinup girl's tale lacks essence May 5, 2006
One of Page's employers, Irving Klaw (Chris Bauer), finds himself under investigation by the United States Senate along with his sister and assistant Paula (Lili Taylor). It's a case where Page's photos are crucial, but Harron glances over it almost casually. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Latest movies releases May 5, 2006
Chris Bauer and Lili Taylor are the pornographer Irving Klaw and his sister. 1 hour, 31 minutes. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Keep on rolling| May 3, 2006
Dennis Quaid, Sam Shepard, Jonathan Demme and actresses Fairuza Balk and Lili Taylor were just a few of the visitors who basked on the luxurious bench seats custom-fitted in Nottinghill black leather. Other accessories include red velvet pillows trimmed with black bead, as well as leopard pillows and matching leopard carpeting. (iAfrica.com)
For the Crisps, Middleton will be home Apr 26, 2006
Today's Globe Opinion Magazine Education Science NECN Special reports Obituaries. It didn't take Sox center fielder Coco Crisp and wife, Maria, long to settle on a new spread. (Boston Globe)
Matt Dillon dishes on 'Factotum's' private parts Apr 26, 2006
In a scene that had even the festival's blase audience agog, the character realizes he's caught crabs from his lover (Lili Taylor) just as he's supposed to leave for work. Ever resourceful, she applies ointment to his private parts and then systematically bandages them up. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Biopic on pinup Page only delves skin deep Apr 22, 2006
CAST: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, David Strathairn, Jared Harris, Sarah Paulson. RUNNING TIME: 91 minutes. (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
'Bettie' is all undressed with nothing to say Apr 21, 2006
From there it's a short step to men's-magazine covers and on to the Klaws, whom Chris Bauer and Lili Taylor play as working stiffs who could be importing grapefruit for all they care. (Taylor, as always, is wonderful as the terse, chain-smoking Paula Klaw. (Boston Globe -- Living)
<< 'Notorious Bettie Page' Apr 21, 2006
Molly Moore, Kevin Carroll, Tara Subkoff, Cara Seymour, David Strathairn, Jonathan M. Woodward, Lili Taylor, Gretchen Mol. DIRECTOR. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Entertainment)
ARMOND WHITE Apr 19, 2006
The Notorious Bettie Page is most facetious when it presumes to show the secret history of pornography: a business also practiced by women (Lili Taylor plays a greedy picture-seller); and outraged hypocritical men (David Strathairn repeats his Ed Murrow glumness, this time as Senator Estes Kefauver). Yet this was the only libidinal outlet for some (then labeled sexual deviants). (New York Press)
Who's That Girl? Apr 19, 2006
The breeziest sections of the film involve her "notorious" bondage shoots with photographer Irving Klaw (Chris Bauer) and his mother-hen sister Paula (Lili Taylor), who provide taboo specialty material to discerning patrons. If Bettie and other impoverished girls can pay the rent by playing dress-up, paddling each other in pantomime before collapsing in a fit of laughter, who's getting hurt. (City Pages)
Film sucks life out of the legend Apr 19, 2006
To her credit, Harron does draw out another memorable performance from Lili Taylor ("I Shot Andy Warhol"), who plays a likable photographer operating an illegal dirty picture business with her husband ... STARRING: Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, Lili Taylor, David Strathairn ... Cast Cara Seymour, David Strathairn, Jonathan M. Woodward, Lili Taylor, Gretchen Mol. (Contra Costa Times -- Entertainment)
Notorious Bettie Page Apr 19, 2006
CastGretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, David Strathairn ... Cast Cara Seymour, David Strathairn, Jonathan M. Woodward, Lili Taylor, Gretchen Mol. (San Jose Mercury News -- Entertainment)
Hilton Als on John Guare Apr 19, 2006
The Signature Theatre Company s uneven yet fascinating revival of Landscape of the Body (at the Peter Norton Space) opens with Betty Yearn (Lili Taylor) sitting on the deck of a ferry, heading to Nantucket. Dressed in a trenchcoat and a bright-colored head scarf, Betty is writing notes and putting them in bottles, which she then drops overboard into the sea. (New Yorker)
Confessions of a Pinup Girl: Apr 19, 2006
For Irving Klaw (Chris Bauer) and his half-sister Paula (Lili Taylor, speaking fluent Brooklynese) she shot the kinky stuff that would get the government's attentionscenes involving spanking, whips, and shoes far less outrageous than the cone-heeled Lanvins that are in this spring. After the Kefauver hearings, the heroine retires, and Harron leaves her having again found God, which isn't the same as redemption, because chaste Page hasn't done anything to be redeemed from. (Slate)
Landscape of the Body Apr 17, 2006
Betty - Lili Taylor Capt. Marvin Holahan - Paul Sparks Rosalie - Sherie Rene Scott Raulito - Bernard White Bert - Stephen Scott Scarpulla Donny - Paul Iacono Joanne - Jill Shackner Margie - Colby Minifie Dope King of Providence - Brian Sgambati Durwood Peach - Jonathan Fried ... Lili Taylor stops the heart as Betty, the anguished mother standing in for Alice Crimmins. (Variety)
EW review: 'Scary Movie,' 4 shame Apr 17, 2006
Harron has a great time staging these scenes as a demented workplace sitcom, with Klaw, a sad lump of a fellow who's always in a sweat, and his sister, Paula (Lili Taylor), catering to the tastes of their clients as if they were selling appliances. If Bettie, in joining up with the Klaws, were simply a dim bulb, her innocence might have come off as a malicious joke. (CNN -- Showbiz)
The original bondage girl Apr 16, 2006
We first meet her, in proper white gloves and a suit, sitting in the hallway outside the 1955 hearings by Senator Estes Kefauver (David Strathairn) on juvenile delinquency, where Page's employer, photographic smut dealer Irving Klaw (Chris Bauer), who runs a mom-and-pop dirty-photo business with his wife (Lili Taylor), is being investigated. A teenaged boy, who had a copy of one of their publications died, apparently while engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation. (Globe and Mail)
'Hard Candy': Pedophile Nightmare, By Kurt Loder Apr 15, 2006
" Bettie Page (it was "Bettie" on her birth certificate, but she was almost always billed as "Betty" in her photo layouts) is a Nashville girl from a religious family who's come to New York by Greyhound bus, fresh from a failed marriage. After knocking around town for a bit, she drifts into the orbit of Irving Klaw (Chris Bauer) and his sister Paula (Lili Taylor), a strangely amiable, middle-aged pair of skin-trade entrepreneurs who run a sort of mom-and-pop mail-order pinup factory. As part of... (MTV.com)
Pinup Girl's Sexless Story; `Kinky Boots' for Sale: Rick Warner on Movies Apr 15, 2006
In addition, Page began posing for Irving Klaw (Chris Bauer) and his sister Paula (Lili Taylor), who distributed S&M photos to private clients through the mail. In that sexually repressed time, the photos of Page wielding whips, tied up in chairs and wrestling with other women became an underground sensation. (Bloomberg -- Euro Index)
Bettie Page wasn't like her image Apr 15, 2006
Starring Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer and Lili Taylor ... The movie omits any mention of a salary for Bettie, but it doesn't take much to figure out that the photographers, including her friends Irving and Paula Klaw (Chris Bauer and Lili Taylor), are making more money than she is. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Notorious Bettie Page is too tame Apr 12, 2006
Starring: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, David Strathairn, Jonathan M. Woodward, Cara Seymour Director: Mary Harron Run time: 1 hour, 31 minutesMPAA rating: R ... Eventually, she lands in the company of Paula Klaw (Lili Taylor, star of I Shot Andy Warhol) and her half-brother, Irving (Chris Bauer), who complete Betties makeover as a star of fetish, bondage and dominatrix movies and photos. (MSNBC -- Movies)