ENTERTAINMENT AS A WAY OF LIFE
MOVIELINE
July/August 2003
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The Night Was Young
Mix today's hottest young stars with Hollywood's biggest headliners and you get one rockin' awards show and after party.
Lindsay Lohan
Hollywood being fraught with sybaritic, drug-addled teen actors as it is, it's refreshing to find an earthy charmer like singer/actress Lindsay Lohan, who first garnered notice with both critics and audiences for her dual role in the 1998 remake The Parent Trap.
Shane West: Go West
Some actors fall in love embarrassingly easy when on set, romancing one costar after another. Shane West's career to date, however, has brought him beauties of a different sort. "I love and appreciate seeing beautiful cars," says West, star of this summer's comic-book actioner The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
London Calling
It was the sixties. Fashion, films and sexual attitudes were changing. Antonioni made Blow Up, but who took these recently discovered photographs?
<a href="http://www.movieline.com/2003/08/when-great-beginnings-end.php">When Great Beginnings End
Precisely thirty-nine minutes and 12 seconds into the very bad, very long, but mostly very bad 3000 Miles to Graceland, Kevin Costner whips out an unmistakably phallic, nickel-plated six-shooter and blows away Christian Slater. The shockingly greasy, oafishly duck-tailed honcho of a cabal of unlikely Elvis impersonators who have just knocked over a casino in Vegas, Costner had taken exception to several thoughtless remarks Slater had made about Costner's fixation on the King.
Angelina Jolie: The Education of Angelina Jolie
The passion for Billy Bob Thornton is history, and the glitz is gone. The Oscar-winning star of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life has only one man in her life now, her adopted son, and she worries more about the hunger of refugees in Africa and the danger of tigers in Cambodia than about the lost souls or carnivorous predators of Hollywood.
To Live & Divorce in L.A.
Marital breakups are hellish no matter where they take place. But in L.A., the stakes are sky-high, the fallout is brutal, the publicity is nasty and all too often one or both of the spouses can act.
<a href="http://www.movieline.com/2003/08/gerard-butler-the-butler-did-it.php">Gerard Butler: The Butler Did It
Not so long ago, Scottish lawyer turned actor Gerard Butler was a stellar (and stellar-looking) actor in need of a worthy project, now, including the starring role in The Phantom of the Opera, he has three.
Fred Segal: Legends of the Cutting Edge
Nicole Kidman, Ben Affleck, Winona Ryder, Leonardo Dicaprio, Meg Ryan. The list of stars who go there is longer than the list of those who don't. Fred Segal is the source for fashion and the primo incubator of next big things.
<a href="http://www.movieline.com/2003/08/the-final-stretch.php">The Final Stretch
Back in the '30s, Hollywood stars gathered to watch the great thoroughbred Seabiscuit fly down the stretch at Santa Anita. Now director Gary Ross reteams with his Pleasantville star Tobey Maguire to bring Hollywood back to racing in this summer's Seabiscuit