The bimbo is one of Hollywood's oldest and most successful contributions to world culture. If you want to know who the first bona fide bimbo was and who the best bimbos have been through the years--or if you fear you might be a bimbo yourself without knowing it--read on.
After a decade on top of the fashion world, Amber Valletta wants to go where other models have gone before--to the silver screen. Obviously she intends to make it to the top of that world, too--she debuts opposite Harrison Ford in the haunted thriller What Lies Beneath.
On screen Maria Bello plays the ringleader off the sexed-up. Offscreen, Bello goes Italian gorgeous.
Now that we're all wised-up to the rampant fakery of moviemaking, it's touching that we still want to believe that the lovers we see on-screen are like Bogey and Bacall in real life. It's also ridiculous. Here are some case studies to sober up on.
Director Wolfgang Petersen talks about how he filmed a drama set in "the storm of the century" and why his star George Clooney might rise to Harrison Ford-level status in five or so years. He also discusses his strange journey from post-Hitler Germany to postmodern Hollywood.
Who put Hollywood on notice with her uncanny love of humanity and good old romantic love?
As the darkly heroic Revolutionary War epic The Patriot breaks out on screens, Mel Gibson looks back on the other dark heroes he's played, names the films he's proud of, disses some losers, and explains what he was thinking when he made the many choices that have turned him into the near legend he is today.
Carmen Electra's been a "Baywatch" babe, a Prince protégé and Jenny McCarthy's replacement on MTV's "Singled Out." Now, after a tumultuous stint as Dennis Rodman's on-again, off-again wife, the Cincinnati-born bomb-shell is, at age 28, channeling the drama into her work, turning up on the big screen in the horror parody Scary Movie.
Mena Suvari emerged practically out of nowhere to become the It girl of two of last year's megahits. Is the unusually striking actress at all like the sweet, offbeat schoolgirl she played in American Pie? Or is she the too- cool-for-school object of erotic obsession of American Beauty? More will be revealed in two new movies, but to hear Suvari tell it, she's none of the above.
Thanks to the two Oscar-beloved films he's done, Saving Private Ryan and The Green Mile, and the upcoming big-budget sci-fi flick Battlefield Earth, just about everyone in Hollywood thinks Barry Pepper is one of the hottest young actors working. Everyone except Pepper, that is.
Diane Lane has been riding the crest of a career upswing since last years A Walk on the Moon. Her leading role in Wolfgang Petersen's hotly anticipated The Perfect Storm could be one more step on the way to becoming the star she's deserved to be for more than two decades.
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