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Jim Caviezel: He Got Game
He's ardently faithful to his wife, favors conservative Republicans and once planned either to play pro basketball or join the priesthood. What's Jim Caviezel doing in Hollywood?
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Piper Perabo
Seventeen years ago, producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer set off a box-office bonfire with Flashdance, the saga of a shapely welder in a Pittsburgh steel mill who dreams of being a ballerina but makes a buck by bumping and grinding her nights away in a sleazy blue-collar bar.
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Neal Moritz: Puttin' on Moritz
Neal H. Moritz Launched Joshua Jackson as a movie star by putting him in three films. Ryan Phillippe, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Cellar have each made two Moritz films. Paul Walker has made one and Wes Bentley and Leelee Sobieski are about to take the plunge. No wonder the producer is considered Young Hollywood's secret weapon.
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Heath Ledger: Heath Wave
He gained a huge teen following when he played a cocky charmer in 10 Things I Hate About You. Then he swore off teen films and just waited. As a reward for his nerve, Heath Ledger is likely to pick up just about every other type of following when he stars with Mel Gibson this summer in The Patriot.
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Ridley Scott: The Real Fight Club
Ridley Scott turned Alien, Blade Runner and Thelma & Louise into pop cultural phenomena. With his new romantic sword-and-sandal epic Gladiator, he's made the movie all Young Hollywood wanted to be in and now wants to see.
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Freddie Prinze Jr.: The Artist Known as Prinze
He became a star playing the good-guy charmer in films like I Know What You Did Last Summer and She's All That, and he'll do it again in next month's Boys and Girls. But in real, life, Freddie Prinze Jr. isn't the easygoing boy next door his teen fans imagine. For one, he playacts being a comic book superhero when no one's around. For another, he admits he cries a lot and prays every morning in the shower. Do we really need a third example?
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Ashton Kutcher
It's hardly surprising that young, shaggy-haired Ashton Kutcher looks like he's the offspring of some '70s rocker--he stars as the puka-shelled, bell-bottomed, spacey heartthrob Michael Kelso on the popular sitcom "That 70s Show."
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White Trash Fever
Every few years Hollywood resurrects trailer park chic. This year, the trend could reach an all-time high thanks to Julia Roberts, who slinks through Erin Brockovich in some of the sexiest pseudo-cheap duds this side of the Mississippi.
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The Collectors
Often enough, successful Hollywood actors spend their wealth on showy homes, exotic cars and lavish private parties. But many possess the means and taste to collect works of art that inspire and delight them. With their well-established art collections, Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson are successors to earlier Hollywood collectors like Vincent Price and Edward G. Robinson. Here are five actors who are not necessarily known for extensive collections, but who own paintings they passionately love.
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Beyond Feng Shui
Thanks to the better flow of positive energy around Hollywood, which is due solely to the ministrations of feng shui experts, box-office revenues are up. But too many high-priced movies still bomb. The next step? Feng che.
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Amanda Peet: Running Wild
As her alter ego Jacqueline Barrett on the prime-time drama "Jack & Jill," actress Amanda Peet plays a high-maintenance Manhattanite who secretly pines after her handsome neighbor. She recently had attention-grabbing supporting roles in both Isn't She Great, opposite Bette Midler, and The Whole Nine Yards, opposite Bruce Willis. In her upcoming film Whipped, the 28-year-old Peet portrays an urban vixen who captures the attentions of three best friends, one of whom is played by her real-life boyfriend, Brian Van Holt. When we let the New York City native loose in Malibu Canyon wearing spring's light, naturalistic dresses, she revealed a wild, earthy side we didn't know she had.
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Ripley's Italian Seacoast
The Talented Mr. Ripley has given a dark glamour to the azure waters and breathtaking vistas of cities, islands and villages are along Italy's coast.
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David Duchovny: Coming and Going
The star of "The X-Files" talks about coming to the big screen in the romantic comedy Return to Me, and not going back to the small screen for "The X-Files" no matter what.
