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Jon Favreau
I think it was Walter Matthau who said 'All you need are breaks,'" says actor/writer Jon Favreau. "One break does not make your career-but still, you better be ready for it.
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Don Cheadle: The Missionary
Being great at being bad in Devil in a Blue Dress and Out of Sight made Don Cheadle one of Hollywood's most respected character actors. Now he's reaching for fun and the stars in Mission to Mars.
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Josh Hartnett: Working Man
Josh Hartnett has three films hitting the big screen almost all at once-- O, The Virgin Suicides and Here on Earth. Obviously it isn't just teen girls who love him.
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Ten Best Actors
1999 was such a strong year for leading performances by actors that no matter who has the five Oscar nominations, justice is only being half-served. So here's a tribute to 10 performances, any one of which deserves an Academy Award.
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Leelee Sobieski: Leelee Land
She was the teen saint in the miniseries Joan of Arc and the teen vamp, in the big screen's Eyes Wide Shut, and now she's the teen Camille in Here on Earth. In real life, Hollywood's ethereal young million-dollar-a-movie darling Leelee Sobieski is the teen boho.
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Mekhi Phifer
Auditioning for his very first acting job five-and-a-half years ago, Mekhi Phifer found himself up dose and personal in a volatile scene with Mr. Intensity, Harvey Keitel. But Phifer-- 19 at the time--wasn't fazed.
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Triumph of the Tarts
Hollywood producers with ten-grand hair weaves and laser-whitened teeth are having a heyday. The most popular fictional archetype on the big screen today is that old Hollywood standby--the tart.
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Chris Noth: Big Deal
Chris Noth, best known as Mr. Big on HBO's "Sex and the City," talks about why Mr. Big is called Mr. Big, and about how important the not-too-big movies he's just made are to him.
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Sela Ward: Sela Under Covers
Sex goddess emeritus Sela Ward looks and sounds too good to be true. But we're happy to take her to face value.
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James Woods: The Man Who Loves Women
James Woods has been a great actor for more than two decades. Go rent The Onion Field, Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador or last year's The General's Daughter if his screen prowess is what you want to concentrate on. If you'd rather hear what Woods has to say about crazy actresses, Viagra, breast implants, Heather Graham, penis size, strippers and Gwyneth Paltrow, read on.
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Rebecca Romjin-Stamos: Rebecca Goes X
The new millennium will get a sexy boost this summer when supermodel Rebecca Romijn-Stamos joins superheroes on the big screen in X-Men.
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Black Magic
When it comes to sex on the big screen, the black dress is a cinematic tradition all its own.
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Ali Larter
Most striking as the ambitious cheerleader in the whipped-cream bikini in Varsity Blues, but memorable also as the goth girl in Drive Me Crazy and the Hollywood climber in The House on Haunted Hill, Ali Larter becomes a leading Lady next month opposite Devon Sawa in Final Destination.
