How does a classically trained New York theater veteran make the transition to Hollywood leading lady? By keeping her head down, according to Laura Linney, star of last summer's no-brainer Congo and this spring's psychological thriller Primal Fear.
The celebrated star of Leaving Las Vegas talks about seeing a ghost, throwing up on prom night, living in the competitive world of the Coppolas, and getting words of wisdom from Sean Connery while making The Rock.
Though Jeremy Piven plays an ex-medical student on TV's "Ellen," the day I visit him on the sitcom's set he looks more like the construction worker from the Village People, right down to his bright yellow hard hat.
Diane Lane, an actress who's hardly 30 but has been on screen for 16 years, shows us her slick L.A. aerie and gives us a tour of some interesting Tinseltown terrain while she's at it.
Is the dumbing down of films about female lawyers just further proof of sexism in Hollywood, or a deliberate salvo in a larger war against feminism? Our dauntless reporter has prepared this brief on the legal antics of everyone from Cher, Cindy and Demi to Rebecca, Jessica and Julia.
Although she protests that she is nobody's "role model." Jamie Lee Curtis demonstrates how to stay sane while managing a 20-year career and a decade-old marriage she says what she things does as she likes and doesn't give damn what anybody thinks.
What do Meryl Streep, Judy Davis, Andie MacDowell and Mercedes Ruehl have in common? Each got one of the best roles of her career thanks to Richard LaGravenese. Here the screenwriter of The Fisher King, The Ref, The Bridges of Madison County, A Little Princess and Unstrung Heroes talks about why women are more interesting than men, and what it's like writing a film about beauty for Barbra Streisand.
We asked 50 Tinseltown women to tell us what female characters they've admired in the movies--and why.
On the beloved TV hit "Friends," Matt LeBlanc plays an I.Q.-challenged actor. In his screen debut, he plays a pitcher who learns life lessons from a monkey. But as we all know by now, stupid is as stupid does.
Riding high on the improbable success of Pulp Fiction, Danny DeVito's company, Jersey Films, set out to corner cutting-edge talent. If improbability is the game, they couldn't do better than let Steven Baigelman, who'd never held a camera, direct Feeling Minnesota, the first script he ever sold. And, as if that weren't improbable enough, they got Keanu Reeves to star in the film.
Samantha Mathis loses her cool over John Travolta, and waxes rhapsodic about working with guns.
Eighteen-going-on-thirty, Edward Furlong talks about having had a rough life, not having done drugs, never having gone clubbing with Leonardo DiCaprio, and having gotten in Before and After, "such a great part that you don't even have to act to look great on film."
Fashion and screen star Isaac Mizrahi dresses up Young Hollywood for the Academy Awards, explains why the next big fashion thing for young stars will be neatness, and, while he's at it, announces "If Stanley Kubrick calls me, I'm all his. Look what he did for Sue Lyon."
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