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Dwayne Johnson: A Piece of the Rock
With his kick-ass film debut in The Mummy Returns now on screens everywhere, The Rock reveals his softer side.
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Angelina Jolie: The Joy of Being Jolie
Angelina Jolie goes right over the top in beauty, in talent, in accomplishments, in love and in public. She just might go over the top in stardom, too, as action heroine Lara Croft in this summer's Tomb Raider.
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Where Have All the Bad Guys Gone?
Audiences used to be able to count on vile, seething, snarling villains when they went to action movies or thrillers. But the standards of villainy have dropped so dramatically these days that most nemeses look like they could barely take on Calista Flockhart.
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Patricia Velasquez: Va-Va-Velasquez
Patricia Velasquez rose from poverty in Venezuela to the fashion world of Paris to an acting career in Hollywood. Here she discusses what she experienced along the way (drugs, Sandra Bernhard) and what she finds thrilling now that she's starring in big films (getting kicked around in The Mummy Returns).
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Charlton Heston: The Alpha and Omega Man
In a career spanning more than half a century, Charlton Heston has played everyone from Moses to Michelangelo, John the Baptist, to the last man on Earth. Here Heston talks about the great roles he's played in the past and the role he'll be playing this summer in the remake of one of his own classics, Planet of the Apes.
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Michael Bay: Bay Watch
Director Michael Bay is gambling big by turning the disastrous 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor into a big-budget, big screen romantic epic. If he succeeds, it will be his own big leap forward.
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Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
It may surprise you to know that Bridgette Wilson-Sampras has been toiling away in Hollywood for a decade, in everything from comedy (she was the teacher Adam Sandler fell for in 1995's Billy Madison) to action movies (countless boys developed crushes on her when she fought evil that same year in Mortal Kombat).
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The Prime of Miss Jacqueline Bisset
I've had so many interesting life experiences, so many psychological journeys, that on a certain level I feel fearless," says English actress Jacqueline Bisset. And so she should. Bisset's Hollywood career spans a prolific 35 years--and counting. One of the Industry's great beauties, she has played opposite Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Steve McQueen, Albert Finney and Nick Nolte.
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Christina Ricci: The One and Only
Christina Ricci has made her mark as a child star, indie queen, leading lady, and all-around unique presence on-screen and off. Now she's adding producer to her resume with the upcoming films Prozac Nation and Pumpkin. Here the prodigiously talented, invariably outspoken actress talks about why she doesn't need any more therapy, what cult classic she'd steal an Oscar acceptance speech from and how she couldn't help giggling when filming sex scenes with Johnny Depp in The Man Who Cried.
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Tom Green: It's Easy Being Green
Can Freddy Got Fingered, the film Tom Green wrote, directed and stars in, possibly make him more famous than testicular cancer, a certain white mouse and Drew Barrymore already have?
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Drea de Matteo: Drea's Dread
Drea de Matteo plays tough on "The Sopranos," but in real life she claims to be wracked with fear, guilt and the desire to star in a Merchant-Ivory film.
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Jennifer Garner
While doing summer stock in Atlanta, Georgia, a few years back, Jennifer Garner approached a veteran New York stage actress for career advice.
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James Franco
With his wild mane of black hair and a copy of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tucked under his arm as he sits in a West Hollywood cafe, James Franco would probably like to appear dark, brooding and serious. But his cover gets blown when a teenage girl walks up to him and loudly proclaims, "You're yummy!"
