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Kristin Cavallari faced a frightening stalker named David Berkowitz who even slashed her tire to try to make contact with her. Despite confronting her stalker, Cavallari obtained a restraining order to ensure her safety. The fact that her stalker shared a name with a notorious killer added even more fear to Kristin Cavallari's terrifying ordeal.

Even though filming Laguna Beach made Kristin Cavallari uncomfortable as a teen, she went on to star in other reality shows, including The Hills. Cavallari's personal life has also been in the spotlight for many years due to her marriage to Jay Cutler.

Thanks to Cavallari's years under the spotlight, there have been headlines about her relationship with Lauren Conrad and her dating a much younger man. What many fans don't know about Cavallari, however, is that she reportedly had a stalker named David Berkowitz.

This article will reveal what Kristin Cavallari said about hiding...

It’s a pretty rare occasion when the director of a superhero movie sits down with the composer to talk about music and neither of them ever uses the word “action” or even “superhero.”

Instead, “Black Widow” director Cate Shortland and composer Lorne Balfe talked about the backstory of Natasha Romanoff and her sister, Yelena Belova. “Every conversation we had, right from the beginning, was about Natasha’s and Yelena’s heritage,” Balfe tells Variety.

“I wanted to write the music that Natasha and Yelena listened to when they were children. Russian folk music was their original soundtrack — what their parents would have sung to them, what they would have absorbed as children.”

So, in what may be the year’s most ambitious film score to date, Balfe enlisted a 118-piece London orchestra and a 60-voice choir singing Russian lyrics. And not just any made-up Russian words: Balfe adapted the...

Sergei Paradjanov made some of the most beautiful films ever seen, writes Elif Batuman. His reward was to be sent to the gulag for 'surrealist tendencies'

Between his abandonment of socialist realism in 1964 and his death from lung cancer in 1990, Sergei Paradjanov made four of the weirdest and most beautiful movies ever seen. An ethnic Armenian, Paradjanov was born in Soviet Georgia in 1924. His mother was "very artistic": she "used to adorn herself with Christmas tree decorations and curtains and join her friends on the roof to enact legends". In 1947, Paradjanov spent a brief stint in a Georgian prison for committing "homosexual acts" (which were illegal under Soviet law) – with, of all people, a Kgb officer. He later disavowed the seven films he shot in the 1950s and early 1960s. In 1962, he saw Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood and completely changed his artistic method, which had previously been quite normal.

The...