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Role Call

We asked 30 actors to pick out the one gem of a movie role in their entire oeuvre they cherish most. And if you think Jim Carrey picked Liar Liar or Lauren Bacall said The Mirror Has Two Faces, you're in for a surprise.

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The Drilling Fields

An oral history of Hollywood's unfair depiction of a tragically downtrodden minority-dentists.

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Ten Films That Showed Hollywood How To Live

A treatise on how 10 famous pictures have expressed and influenced the ideas and behavior of Hollywood people.

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Janine Turner's Life Story

She left the Hollywood scene, risking everything she'd gained from Northern Exposure and Cliffhanger, to go home to the range and get a life.

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Gina Gershon: Everyone's Darlin'

Starring in the campy Showgirls and the controversial bound has put Gina Gershon in a class by herself. This summer she mixes it up with Nic Cage in Face/Off.

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Jeremy Northam: No More Mr. Knightly

Jeremy Northam, the actor who played Gwyneth Paltrow's gentlemanly Mr. Knightley in Emma, talks about his movie with Mira Sorvino, Mimic, and has a few words as well on the spitting death worms of the Gobi desert and on body piercing.

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Harrison Ford: Off the Beaten Path

Harrison Ford discusses Air Force One, and then talks about the Dalai Lama, happiness, the legalization of marijuana, the best way to die, and the one question he'd ask God.

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William H. Macy: Character Issues

UNLESS YOU'RE A DAVID MAMET AFICIONADO OR AN "ER" BUFF, chances are that you hadn't fully registered the existence of William H. Macy before Fargo. Since Fargo, Macy seems to be everywhere.

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What's Eating Devon Sawa?

We get a taste of the young Canadian upstart fresh from his appearance in Wild America.

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Virtual Newsstand: Movieline, June 1997

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Rob Lowe: High on Lowe

The guy who was the Brat Pack's resident looker in the '80s stepped out of the spotlight to become Rob Lowe the stable family man in the early '90s. Now, with a role in Robert Zemeckis's Contact, a TV deal, and a directing debut of his own, he's proving to be a Hollywood survivor, too.

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Mark Wahlberg: The Boogie Man

With each movie he makes, Mark Wahlberg pushes his old Marky Mark persona further away from him. With his new film, Boogie Nights, a black comedy about the porn world of the '70s, he'd like to prove once and for all that he's an actor.

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Robert Downey Jr. : The Father of the Man

Robert Downey Jr. crawls into a dry bathtub for a chat with his director, James Toback, at the end of the fast, grueling shoot for the film Two Girls and a Guy, and explains the lure of personal movies, explores the mysteries of fathers and sons, and praises directors who give actors a chance to hang themselves.

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The 100 Dumbest Things Hollywood's Done Lately

A compilation of 100 truly idiotic things Hollywood has done as of late.

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Jon Voight: Isn't it Romantic?

With Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, and Coming Home to his credit, Jon Voight is one of the great acting heavies, but in real life he's sweetness and light. Our intrepid reporter chats with Voight about the good old days, and about the slew of movies he's done recently.

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