Virtual Newsstand: Movieline, May/June 2003

ENTERTAINMENT AS A WAY OF LIFE
MOVIELINE
May/June 2003

FEATURES

Chasing Light in Venice
Cinematographer Wally Pfister shares the journal he kept while filming the summer's megaremake The Italian Job in Venice.

Kelly Hu
We catch up with X2 star Kelly Hu on her 35th birthday as she gets ready for the opera.

Hollywood's Greatest Catfight
The world has relished the evil verbal warfare between Sharon Stone and Madonna, Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth. But nothing beats the lashings Joan Crawford and Bette Davis gave each other.

Lisa Kudrow: Everything Good
LIsa Kudrow is the first to admit her world is "everything good," thanks to the enormous success of "Friends." But here she reveals the more intimate details of her life -- the alienation she felt in high school, the anti-semitism she faced in college, the one thing she fights about with her husband and the special off-camera bond she shared with Courteney Cox Arquette and Jennifer Aniston.

<a href="http://www.movieline.com/2003/06/gretchen-mol-mol-or-nothing.php">Gretchen Mol: Mol or Nothing
Auteur Neil Labute has directed Renee Zellweger and Gwyneth Paltrow, but for both the stage and screen versions of his critically acclaimed play The Shape of Things, he wanted Hollywood hype survivor Gretchen Mol.

James Marsden: He Puts the X in Sexy
Among the famous faces in the X-Men franchise--Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen. Anna Paquin--there is one that has yet to reveal its full potential. Now that James Marsden has more to bite on in the sequel, will his days of anonymity be far behind?

Hollywood's Secret Hideout
If Johnny Depp were a hotel, he'd be Chateau Marmont. The two are so alike. The classic bones, the low-key glamour, the romantic decadence, the natural discretion, the streak of rebellion, the modern spirit that can cloak itself convincingly in period disguise--few hotels in the world have so much presence and promise so much enigmatic pleasure.

The Sirens of Summer
These actresses have long been seducing us with their talent and charisma. Now they're the main attractions of this year's hot-weather entertainment. Michael Atkinson explains what makes them worth skipping a day at the beach for.