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Shaquille O'Neal: Video Shaq
Shaquille O'Neal may or may not become a star of the big screen, but the man knows what he likes in movies. As he reveals in his own home entertainment center, it isn't II Postino.
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Toni Collette: Double Take
If you saw Muriel's Wedding, you're in for a fun surprise. Toni Collette, the zaftig actress who played Muriel, is not what she seemed.
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Gary Cole: Hot and Cole
Once best known for playing the rugged, sensitive talk-show radio host on TV's "Midnight Caller," Gary Cole went big-screen by donning a wig in The Brady Bunch Movie, and now he's at it again.
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Meet Bill Pullman
He's been around for years playing every sort of character. But even after he starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the hit While You Were Sleeping, people were still not sure who he was. Will the big blast of Independence Day liberate Bill Pullman from the vestiges of anonymity?
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The Flint Beneath the Shimmer
After a classically inauspicious beginning, Andie MacDowell has run a long gauntlet toward Hollywood success and respect. With one starring role in the touted Multiplicity and another opposite John Travolta due later this year, she just might be about to really catch fire.
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Scaling the Heights
How tall are the actors you look up at on the big screen? Definitely not that big.
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A Star is Born
Sharon Stone did it in Basic Instinct. John Travolta did it in Saturday Night Fever and again in Pulp Fiction. Lana Turner did it before either of them in The Postman Always Rings Twice. We're talking about the magical collision of good casting, good acting and great luck known as the Hollywood Breakthrough.
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Tony Scott: From Macho to Mellow
"Mellow" is a relative term for the guy who made glossy action films like Top Gun and Crimson Tide. But no question, Tony Scott, director of this summer's The Fan, has softened at the edges. Here he talks about how Quentin Tarantino changed his life, what makes Fan star Robert De Niro a "sweetheart," and why Don Simpson's death was no surprise.
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Don Simpson: Hollywood Death
Inspired by Don Simpson's uncinematic demise, David Thomson contemplates Hollywood's longtime--and accelerating--love affair with funerals and death itself.
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Vanessa Williams: Don't Look Back
She's got haunting blue-green eyes, the most genuine smile ever to grace a Miss America and a force of will Arnold Schwarzenegger himself can relate to. Will starring with Arnold in the action-blast Eraser get Vanessa Williams where she's wanted to go since long before she ever entered a beauty pageant?
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Jim Carrey: Smart & Smarter
Jim Carrey's high-wire act continues. The anarchic silliness of the past gets its new due in The Cable Guy, but there are Robin Williams-like changes ahead for the screen's most relentless and successful mugger.
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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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The Further Exposure of Rob Morrow
Can Rob Morrow do what David Caruso couldn't? His follow-up to the respectable failure Quiz Show is Last Dance, in which he stars with Sharon Stone, who, he claims, "is the real thing."
