He touched teen hearts with 10 Things I Hate About You, then grabbed everyone else with The Patriot. Now Heath Ledger is starring in a rockin' medieval adventure, Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale, and has already shot Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur's Four Feathers. Here Ledger explains how he keeps his sanity in the mounting storm of stardom, provides a plausible theory on why Aussies are stealing the best parts in Hollywood films, and praises the new star in his life, Heather Graham.
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Hollywood likes them young. It's always been that way in a town fueled by new blood reworking old ideas, but it's never been truer than now. Each season, Hollywood seems to require fresh hope in the form of a Matthew McConaughey, a Mira Sorvino, a Gretchen Mol, a Gwyneth Paltrow, a Hilary Swank, a Colin Farrell. Some of the chosen succeed brilliantly, and some last long enough to survive the hype. Others fade fast. For over a decade now, Movieline has featured one young actor on its cover to symbolize Young Hollywood. Here's a look at who some of them were back then and who they are now.
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The Oscars take themselves so seriously, most of us would like to see the statuette slip on a banana peel. But for the moment, let's play along. Here's a glance back at 10 Academy Awards that were awarded to truly worthy winners.
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Ever since Johnny Depp moved to France to be with Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his child, he's been making fascinating career choices, like Lasse Hallstrom's Chocolat and, this month, Ted Demme's Blow. Here Depp talks about the pleasure of living in Europe, explains why he was surprised Hallstrom wanted to work with him, and discusses what made him bolt from the Oscars and steal Harrison Ford's limo the one year he went.
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Geoffrey Rush's career took off when he won an Oscar for Shine, and now he's involved in more awards buzz for his performance as the Marquis de Sade in Quills. Here he discusses how being Oscar's golden boy has changed his career but not his life, why he was eager to sink his tongue into playing the Marquis and what's with his title role opposite Pierce Brosnan in The Tailor of Panama.
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One minute he's an unknown director leaping from a Budweiser commercial to the feature Mouse Hunt, the next he's directing the high-wattage pairing of Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt in The Mexican. Here's how Gore Verbinski did it.
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Few young actors are ballsy enough to risk comparison with Tom Cruise's vampire Lestat in 1994's Interview With the Vampire. Wes Bentley, Heath Ledger and Josh Hartnett all turned down the starring role in Queen of the Damned, the upcoming movie version of the Anne Rice novel in which Lestat becomes a rock star whose anthems bestir the mother of all vampires from her beauty sleep.
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So bubbly she could carbonate Lake Michigan, Brittany Murphy works like crazy.
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When it comes to playing the bad guy, Jason Isaacs is very, very good. He portrayed troublemakers in 1996's Dragonheart and in 1998's Soldier, but he really got moviegoers hating him as the red-coated sadist Colonel Tavington in last summer's The Patriot. Can he top that villainy? Actually, he doesn't want to. "You can't be typecast-- you're only cast if you accept the jobs," says the 37-year-old, who has chosen to appear next in much lighter fare as Charlize Theron's cross-dressing best friend in Sweet November, which also stars Keanu Reeves.
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A little over a decade ago, Sean Young was a hot, rising star with Blade Runner and No Way Out under her belt. Then came trouble that would literally send her back into the desert for years. Is Hollywood ready for a great comeback story? Is she?
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A portfolio of actors who will be bringing their erotic voltage to big screens in the coming year.
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Now in his fifth season as a vampire, first on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and currently on "Angel," David Boreanaz is finally spreading his wings to play a regular guy on the big screen in the thriller Valentine.
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Goran Visnjic, "ER"'s post-Clooney heartthrob, reveals his passion for his homeland and his affection for Sigourney Weaver.
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