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Fairuza Balk: Spelling it Out
It's not every Hollywood actress who owns a witchcraft store. But then, Fairuza Balk is hardly like every Hollywood actress.
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John Waters: Ironic John
On a driving tour of the rundown Baltimore neighborhoods where he made all his films, writer/director John Waters talks about how Christina Ricci and Edward Furlong got their parts in his new movie, Pecker, theorizes that Catholics have better sex than Jews, and explains why he's a devoted member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
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Ron Bass: The Collaborator
Screenwriters as a group rail against the injustices of Hollywood and complain that they have no power. Oscar-winner Ron Bass, the screenwriter of such films as Rain Man, The Joy Luck Club, Waiting to Exhale, My Best Friend's Wedding, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, the new What Dreams May Come and the upcoming Snow Falling on Cedars, complains very little and wields his own powers of persuasion.
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Robert Towne: Out of Towne
Writer/director Robert Towne, who wrote what many people think is the best screenplay of the last 30 years, Chinatown, talks about everything from how he learned to write by watching Jack Nicholson act to why Billy Crudup ended up playing the role he originally intended for Tom Cruise in his new film Without Limits.
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Nicole Kidman: Nic at Twilight
Caught in a spotlight, Nicole Kidman can seem distant and reserved. But have a talk with her in quiet evening light, and she comes across as relaxed and open--about working with Sandra Bullock on her new film Practical Magic ("She doesn't take it all too seriously, and that's good"), about her never-ending shoot with Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut ("I would do it again in a second"), about Tom ("I've been going through a pretty romantic stage lately") and about herself ("I wouldn't mind having bigger boobs").
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Film Fashion Frenzy
When Isaac Mizrahi has written a movie that will star his clothes, The Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel, you know that designers have taken over Hollywood. Here are 25 films crammed full of fashion.
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Rug Rats
The biggest threat from Hollywood to the sanctity of red-blooded American men's virility is not the murderous rampages from the likes of Glenn Close or Sharon Stone, but from the horrible wigs that are festooning the pates of far too many men in the movies (according to Joe Queenan).
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We Know What You Wore This Summer
You're unlikely to spot a Versace or a Valentino in Disturbing Behavior, Halloween: H20, Urban Legend, or I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. That's because Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Katie Holmes, Jennifer Love Hewitt and the other stars of these youth-market slasher films wear the same labels everyone in their audience likes to wear.
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Angela Bassett: Steel and Silk
Angela Bassett has a reputation for playing strong women, but with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, she gets to soften her edges. Here, Bassett talks about playing a woman who falls for a guy half her age, discusses her real life with her new husband Courtney B. Vance and tells a sweet story about working with Ralph Fiennes.
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Michelle Williams: The Young Old-Timer
At 18, "Dawson's Creek" and Halloween: H20 star Michelle Williams lives alone in Los Angeles. After you meet her, you don't worry too much about her being too young to be on her own.
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Gretchen Mol: Rhymes with Doll
Gretchen Mol's quiet existence won't be quite so quiet after playing the girlfriend opposite two of Hollywood's hottest tickets--Matt Damon in Rounders, and Leonardo DiCaprio in Celebrity.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Feeling Choosy
Thanks to the fame and fortune Seinfeld gave her, Julia Louis-Dreyfus can afford to be selective as she eyes her movie options. And for her first post-_Seinfeld_ film, she's chosen to play... an ant.
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Elizabeth Hurley: Elizabeth's Reign
The extraordinarily beautiful, tirelessly stylish Elizabeth Hurley clears away several misconceptions about her--that she started out a model, that she goes to parties minus underwear--and also talks about her new movie, Permanent Midnight, her relationship with Hugh Grant and her just-wrapped movie with Matthew McConaughey, Ed TV.
