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Don't stink up Ashley Judd's stylistic air

NEW YORK -- Ashley Judd might have raised eyebrows with her flapper-influenced outfit at last month's Academy Awards, but she wasn't looking for feedback from the likes of style hound Joan Rivers.

"I have my own ideas about what I think is chic, and I don't need to have my standards corroborated by somebody's opinion," Judd, 32, tells Harper's Bazaar magazine in its April issue.

Judd, who currently stars in "Someone Like You," says she tries to avoid people who offer unsolicited -- and sometimes cruel -- feedback.

"The whole culture of commentary is so detached from any organic process of creation that I just try not to go there," she says. "It's an air I just really don't want to breathe."

Shannon Elizabeth: The Chihuahua stole my job

NEW YORK -- Not long before Shannon Elizabeth was a rising star and sex symbol of Hollywood comedies, she was a model willing to do small-time work in order to make it big.

Elizabeth, currently starring in "Tomcats," recalls some of those moments in the May issue of Gear. She says she once appeared on the back cover of a Midol booklet that ran inside magazines for teenage girls.

"I looked kind of miserable. I did it because I was just happy to get a job," she says. "It was like, 'Look, I'm in Teen. I have cramps!' "

She also did a Taco Bell commercial.

"I just sort of bopped around eating a taco," she said. "No money for that -- we got paid in burritos. Then that Chihuahua came along and stole all our jobs."

Elizabeth's willingness to take the modest roles has apparently paid off. Along with "Tomcats" and previous work in "American Pie" and "Scary Movie," she has three movies scheduled for release later this year: "American Pie II," "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," and "13 Ghosts."

'Scary' thought: Brando spoofing it up

LOS ANGELES, California -- Marlon Brando in a spoof movie?

According to Variety's Dish column, the godfather of actors has been offered $1 million for a cameo in the upcoming sequel to "Scary Movie," the comedy that mocked the recent spate of slasher films and their sequels.

Dimension, the studio producing the film, wouldn't comment on the report, and neither would representatives of Brando. But the actor's schedule is apparently open.

He just finished work with Robert De Niro and Edward Norton on "The Score."

Brando has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning two best actor honors for "On the Waterfront" (1954) and "The Godfather" (1973).

Broadway producer Arthur Cantor dead at 81

NEW YORK -- Arthur Cantor, the play producer who presented more than 100 productions in New York, London and Paris, died Sunday of a heart attack at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, Variety reports. He was 81.

Among the work that blossomed under Cantor's guidance: "A Thousand Clowns," "On Golden Pond," and "Dylan Thomas Growing Up."

Born in Boston and educated at Harvard, Cantor had made a career in the theater since 1946, first as a publicist.

The first play he produced was Paddy Chayefsky's "The Tenth Man," which opened on Broadway in 1959.

Cantor is survived by a daughter and a son. Another son died in 1991. His wife died in 1970.