We'd love him just for making a hero out of a magazine editor (!) in the fact-based Shattered Glass, but Golden Globe-nominated Peter Sarsgaard is grabbing attention outside of media circles, too.
For decades, Michael Childers has snapped Hollywood's finest. Here he shares with Hollywood Life the stories behind a few of his iconic works -- recently collected for the exhibit "Icons and Legends: The Photograph of Michael Childers" running at the Palm Springs Desert Museum through February 15, before touring museums across the country.
The arresting soulfulness and singular beauty of Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation and Girl With A Pearl Earring (she earned Golden Globe nominations for both) have transformed her into one of Hollywood's most sought-after talents. With a soaring movie career, a brand-new car, house and 'do and even a potential new boyfriend, the outspoken 19-year-old reflects on her breakout year's projects and what's still to come.
Thanks to the likes of J. Lo and Nicole, the glorious beautiful-women-cleaning-toilets film genre gets a jolt.
How Renzo Rosso -- Diesel's high-octane owner -- turned a predilection for denim into a bonafide pop culture bonanza.
Farrah Fawcett had few acting credits when Charlie's Angels rocketed her into a cultural icon, so how apropos that another rookie thesp, 29-year-old model Tricia Heifer, was cast after a worldwide search to play the poster goddess in NBC's Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels. Heifer was hauling grain and plucking chickens on the family farm in rural Canada until she was discovered at age 17 in a movie theater line by a modeling agent; she soon won the Ford Supermodel of the World contest and became a catwalk staple in New York, Paris and Milan, adorning the ad campaigns of Chanel, Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren. We caught up mid-production with the newlywed (to RKO Films exec Jonathan Marshall) newcomer.
Megawatt stars lauded Hollywood's next big things at Hollywood Life's third annual break through of the year awards.
Director Anthony Minghella is plagued with anxiety over his new film Cold Mountain, just as he was with his previous Oscar-friendly films The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley. At least there's always Bach.
Actor James Todd Smith. Rapper LL Cool J. Whichever. You'd just better not sell him short.
We're already excited to watch Halle Berry get feline, get cultured at a reopened museum classic and ogle Brad Pitt's gams. (Skirt-wearing hunks -- now there's a positive sign for the New Year...)
After wowing the critics in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive and audiences worldwide in The Ring, Naomi Watts quickly became one of Hollywood's most in-demand actresses. With a gift for dark, wrenching material, like her current film 21 Grams, and a best friend by the name of Nicole Kidman to shepherd her through fame, she knows she can--finally!--enjoy it.
Preparing for the role of notorious womanizer Warren Beatty in ABC's upcoming Natalie Wood biopic required maximum dedication on the part of actor Matthew Settle. "I've never met Warren," he says, "but I've been with women who've said they've been with him, so I've vicariously been with him. If you look at it that way, I've actually slept with Warren Beatty."
The Roman a Clef diva on naked manicures, sequined (male!) producers, those Vanity Fair parties -- and who's who in her latest, Hollywood Divorces.
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