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Christopher Walken: Walken Tall
Christopher Walken has been doing it his way since he started in show business at the age of three. Now he's inspiring a new generation of actors.
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The Breakthrough Kids
They're young, they're hot and they're ready for their close-ups. Behold our guide to Hollywood's new guard -- from, the already-verging to the just-emerging.
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Alicia Silverstone: Arousing Alicia
Parked outside Alicia Silverstone's trailer on the set of her NBC series Miss Match is an eco-friendly Toyota Prius hybrid, which is not surprising, given the 27-year-old vegan actress' well-publicized views on animal rights and the environment. On the car's back window, someone has scrawled "Watch me, please."
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Gregory Smith: Ever Good
From baby commercials to films like The Patriot with Mel Gibson, Gregory Smith has been acting (and loving it) since he can remember. Now melting hearts as shy, sensitive piano prodigy Ephram Brown on the WB's angsty father-son hit drama Everwood, Smith says he didn't have to travel far to Sundance this January for the preem of what he calls his "extremely independent" new movie Book of Love, an infidelity tale costarring Frances O'Connor and Simon Baker.
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Rachel McAdams: A Life Less Ordinary
Watch out. Rachel McAdams will steal your heart. And no, she won't give it back. Otherwise known as the hot chick in The Hot Chick, and, well, a mean girl in Mean Girls, it's her searing turn in June's The Notebook that'll suspend romantic reality and make this pretty baby stand out.
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Mekhi Phifer: The Hustler
He could've become a multi-platinum rapper, but instead Mekhi Phifer chose to get his bona fides as an actor with such choice projects as 8 Mile, O, a regular gig on "ER," and his latest, Dawn of the Dead. Gettin' down with luscious leading ladies like Beyonce and Jessica Alba is just a bonus.
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Max Mara: Who Is Max Mara?
High up on a hill, in a land far, far away, there lives a brilliant fashion mogul and his brood. Tucked into the Italian countryside, the retail emperor dwells in a 13th-century castle replete with a working drawbridge, a turreted brick tower and its very own enchanted forest. On Sundays, Achille Maramotti, as he is known, and his wife Ida gather their three children, Luigi, Ignazio and Maria Ludovica, and nine grandchildren, to sup in their verdant gardens and discuss the family business. But theirs is no ordinary venture. And while "family business" might sound modest, theirs is hardly that. Theirs is what some like to call: the largest high-end retailer for women in the world. With 1,790 boutiques and counting, and staggering sales of over $1 billion, it is a global giant named simply: MaxMara.
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Liv Tyler: Living It Up!
Liv Tyler on bonding with Orlando and dad Steven, overcoming middle-Earth depression and making a movie with Bennifer.
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Sex & Clothes
As Cold Mountain proved, sex on screen isn't just about skin and sweat, it's about disrobing and robing again.
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Thieves Like Who?
Forget those public-service announcements hosted by set designers and stuntman -- here are the anti-piracy shorts we'd like to see.
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Zuleikha Robinson: Not Horsing Around
Most young starlets getting their big break are ecstatic. Not Zuleikha Robinson. When the 26-year-old actress landed the leading-lady role in this month's Hidalgo, she was--in a word--terrified. And it's not because she'd be wooing hunky Viggo Mortensen, who plays a Pony Express courier competing in a brutal horse race across the Arabian desert. No, it was the equine costars that had her up at night.
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Inside Natalie Wood
For the second time in three years, director Peter Bogdanovich casts a glance at a Hollywood life that ended in a mysterious death. The Cat's Meow--which was released in 2002 and starred Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davies, Eddie Izzard as Charlie Chaplin and Jennifer Tilly as Louella Parsons--followed the line of persistent rumors of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst's guilt in director Thomas Ince's death and an ensuing cover-up. The Mystery of Natalie Wood takes a much broader view of its iconic subject, but the whole movie can't help but be colored by our inescapable knowledge of her untimely death by drowning off Catalina Island in 1981.
