Approaching the century mark, Al Hirschfeld, master of the celebrity caricature since the Coolidge administration, gets the bicoastal treatment with two new books--and accompanying gallery shows highlighting his work devoted to New York and Hollywood.
Barry Levinson takes a break from Baltimore with the inspired robbers-on-the-run comedy Bandits.
After several seasons of stormy weather and unpleasant headlines, Elizabeth Hurley is refocusing on what she came to Hollywood to do in the first place--make movies.
"I didn't grow up with people who said, 'We're going to be famous theater stars!'" says Desmond Harrington. "We were a bunch of white kids in the Bronx, and my friends that I grew up with now are cops, or firemen, or construction workers, or businessmen."
After years of stealing scenes in films as varied as Clueless and Girl, Interrupted, Brittany Murphy is now being touted as an Oscar contender for her turn in the thriller Don't Say a Word. But she's taking the hype with a grain of salt--and a pound of sugar.
This year Hollywood is getting revved up for the Oscars earlier than usual, thanks to a new location that promises an added dash of glamour.
He had the world on a string after Dead Poets Society, but instead of pursuing big movie stardom, Robert Sean Leonard opted to work in theater and do small films with friends, like Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls.
If the eyes are truly the windows into the soul, the souls of these actors may be the most carnal and suggestive Hollywood has ever had the pleasure of knowing.
She's been in the news for making Charlie's Angels a blockbuster, escaping a house fire and marrying Tom Green, but there's more to Drew Barrymore than headlines. Here she tells us what she really does behind closed doors--from the phobia she developed after the destruction of her home to the anxiety she's experienced as a producer to the emotional roller coaster she endured while making her biggest challenge to date, Riding in Cars with Boys.
Allen and Albert Hughes were barely out of their teens when they emerged like baby Scorseses with their blistering debut, Menace II Society. Eight years later, on the verge of the release of their latest film, the Jack the Ripper thriller From Hell, starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, the angry young men say they've finally mellowed. But based on their remarks about the way they've been treated over the years, they haven't made peace with Hollywood just yet.
Just three years ago, Eva Mendes was a student at Cal State Northridge, clueless about her future. Currently she's costarring with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke in the cop drama Training Day and looking toward the release of All About the Benjamins with Ice Cube.
Troy Garity knows he has something to prove. He is, after all, the only child of Jane Fonda and former California state senator Tom Hayden--who surnamed their baby boy after his paternal grandmother in order to nurture his own identity.
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