Now that the influx of mannequins into moviedom has reached high tide, it's high time for The Cindy Crawford Scale, our scientific system for measuring the acting skills of Elizabeth Hurley, Naomi Campbell, Vendela and other supermodels with big-screen aspirations.
Heather Graham grew up a good Catholic girl, which somehow prepared her to distinguish herself first as a junkie in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy and most recently as a porn star in Boogie Nights.
Morgan Freeman, the man considered by many to be the best actor working on-screen today, didn't break through until the age of 50, and is now about to turn 60. Here he talks about dealing with gangs as a kid, having an epiphany in a T-33 Jet Trainer, starving on the streets of Los Angeles, and using his late-life success to tell his part of American history.
David Duchovny explains his esthetics of self-protection, talks about his foray back onto the big screen in Playing God, and lays out the strategy for "The X-Files" movie(s).
The greatest thing to come out of Kiev since perogies, young Ms. Jovovich dazzles in The Fifth Element.
Loyal wives, loving mothers, lost lushes. Heroines, whores, homicidal hussies. They're all here, with a few slick sisters, whip-smart working girls, a screwy septuagenarian, and other women concocted out of light, shadow and sound.
"ER" star Julianna Margulies already makes big money on the small screen, so she's decided not to cash in on her first movies.
First she was a starlet, then a Hollywood wife. Now Kelly Preston is reinventing herself on-screen-- proving to be, in Jerry Maguire, Citizen Ruth and two upcoming films, a gifted comedienne.
Just when it looked like Versace and Armani were dominating the Hollywood glamour-girl market, up popped Mark Badgley and James Mischka to revive Tinseltown femininity sans fussiness. Here, the designing duo disses '80s excess, warns that "pretty, pretty, pretty" is "boring," and describes how they'd dress Gwyneth Paltrow for her wedding.
How tall are these actresses...._really_? The answers might surprise you -- and them!
If only, somehow, Julia Roberts could be as complicated on-screen as the feelings she prompts in one who looks carefully at her career. If that were possible, she might become a real actress, instead of remaining just a great beauty who gives off an uncanny sense of being flawed or damaged, and needing to be rescued. The flirt's secret message to her viewers is, after all, exactly that: Rescue me. But the serious actress must learn that that task is hers alone. And as a start, she has to take charge of her own smile.
After a couple of years on maternity leave from Hollywood, Kim Basinger will be back on-screen in the cool noir L.A. Confidential. Here she confides that baby Ireland has none of Alec's looks but some of his temper, claims she has no desire to be a first lady, and details exactly how she came to have a chic new hairdo.
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