Clued-in Hollywood types began noticing James Marsden a few years ago when he auditioned for Edward Norton's role in Primal Fear, read for Starship Troopers and came that close to a primo part in 54.
Taye Diggs ran buck naked in a theater without requiring stage direction for it.
Julia Stiles; Prom queen of everyone's inner high school.
With Portrait of a Lady and G.I.Jane, Viggo Mortensen emerged from a decade plus of mostly marginal roles and turned Hollywood heads. Now A Perfect Murder ups the ante again.
As Frank Sinatra in HBO's The Rat Pack, Ray Liotta gets to let some of his bad-guy chops loose once more, but he gets to let his blue eyes do their magic, too.
Wesley Snipes discusses his new vampire-chic thriller Blade, talks about working with Maya Angelou in his upcoming Down in the Delta, explains why he thinks Sean Connery has African blood, responds to Jennifer Lopez' tales of his romantic aggression and offers to take his pal Woddy Harrelson's interest in hemp.
Jenny McCarthy, the curvy, blonde enfant terrible of TV, talks about the days of Singled Out, the debacle of Jenny and the blast she had making BASEketball for the big screen. While she's at it, she recounts her casting couch nightmare with a famous action star and explains why she'd like to skin her boyfriend after he dies.
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas went from exotic art-house import and rising star in upscale films to tabloid romantic and overexposed star in mediocre fare. How, with his life in better focus and The Mask of Zorro hitting screens, Banderas sounds a confident note as he talks about wielding swords, living with Melanie Griffith, directing his first movie, and hoping and preparing for what he knows would be the role of his life, The Phantom of the Opera.
The Farrelly Brothers hand cream is not something you really wanna put in your hair. Sound cryptic? Read on...
Years ago, Drew Barrymore scooped the world on the off-center appeal of actor Breckin Meyer.
"I'M SOOO SORRY," SAYS GIOVANNI RIBISI as his cell phone rings for, like, the third time in four minutes. "There, I'm turning it off. I feel like such a Hollywood asshole."
Actors seldom let tears into their performances, so those brave moments when they do-Brad Pitt's weeping in Legends of the Fall, Matt Damon's cathartic cry in Good Will Hunting-are all the more interesting to examine.
At different times over the last 20 years, Dennis Quaid has gotten one step away from megastardom. Today he may be sorry about some of his film disappointments and some of his own mistakes, but he's not sorry he's not Tom Cruise. Here he talks about when he 'started to lose it, big time' during his drug-fueled '80s days, about why his marriage to Meg Ryan is so good for him, and about how he came to be directing TNT's film Everything That Rises, and starring in Disney's The Parent Trap.
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