The Vault
The First Cut
Stars specialize in thin skin, but nothing critics say can wound like the cutting remarks they endured back in their schoolyard days.
The Vault
Don't Try this at Home, Part 3
What happens when a regular Joe re-creates scenes from the movies in his own life to test Hollywood's grip on reality? Here, our intrepid reporter reports on his third attempt to find some shred of celluloid credibility, for which he willingly put himself in such life-threatening situations as nearly freezing to death in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Vault
Elmore Leonard in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino's favorite novelist recounts decades of being jerked around by Hollywood talents like Burt Reynolds and Dustin Hoffman, explains why Get Shorty was the first decent adaptation of one of his novels, and gives thumbs up to the chemistry of George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez in the new film of his novel Out of Sight.
The Vault
David Duchovny: An Actor and a Poet
David Duchovny touts the creatures of The X-Files movie as "A-list aliens," discusses the dynamic bonds of marriage, explains why Princess Di's death was not a tragedy and shares one of his poems.
The Vault
Tom Sizemore: The New Tom
Tom Sizemore is good at playing bad men--like the evil private dick in the lurid Strange Days, the demented cop on the trail of serial killers in Natural Born Killers, the professional thief in Heat and the mysterious "fixer" in Devil in a Blue Dress.
The Vault
Yasmine Bleeth: She Can Cut It
You'll never believe what Yasmine Bleeth said on the set of her first big studio film set.
The Vault
Terry Does Vegas
Terry Giliam weathered months in America's least authentic city to capture the surreal reality of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Here, he describes how Johnny Depp "stole Hunter Thompson's soul" for Fear and Loathing, and explains why he's still upset years after The Adventures of Baron Munchausen that he wasn't the first director to present Uma Thurman naked on-screen.
The Vault
Jeremiah Chechik: Secret Agent Man
Director Jeremiah Chechik explains why making The Avengers was ever so much more fun than his last movie, Diabolique, and promised that Ralph Fiennes will be "light as a feather" as Mr. Steed.
The Vault
Peter Weir: Weir's World
Director Peter Weir's movies, which include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, Witness, The Year of Living Dangerously, Dead Poet's Society, and Fearless, tend to be unlike other movies, and unlike one another. His newest, The Truman Show, which stars Jim Carrey as a man who doesn't know he's living in a TV show, fits that bill perfectly.
The Vault
Channeling Fame
Twenty-five stars tell us about their first big break on the small screen.
The Vault
Jennifer Love Hewitt: Love of the Party
Not long ago, Jennifer Love Hewitt was just another one of the teens on TV's Party of Five. Then her screamfest I Know What You Did Last Summer hit the screen. Now, fresh out of high school, Hewitt has two new films - Can't Hardly Wait and the upcoming sequel to Summer - and Hollywood just wrote her a $500,000 paycheck for a pitch she'll develop and star in.
The Vault
The Good Times of Nicolas Cage
The actor who won an oscar for playing a suicidal alcoholic in a small, dark movie describes the joys of playing action heroes in big-budget movies like this summer's Snake Eyes. While he's at it, he explains why he's a Coppola and a Cage, and confesses his unease with Superman's underpants.
The Vault
Kirsten Dunst: Thirsty for More
At age 11 Kirsten Dunst gave the consummate precocious-kid performance in Interview With the Vampire as Claudia, a lustful bloodsucker forever trapped in a child's body. By the time the sun charred her to ashes, she'd mouthed lofty, formal 18th-century dialogue, cozied up to Brad Pitt in a coffin and gleefully slashed Tom Cruise's throat.
