Now that unzipped, the film about couture with films about fashion designers. Here are five creature Isaac Mizrahi, is hitting screens, it's time to examine Hollywood's fascination of the looniest flicks about the problems of - literally - cutting a swath through life.
It seems quaint now, but there was a time when stars had their image crafted for them, invariably without their input, by the studio they were under contract to. The carefully considered choice of roles, scripts, directors and all-important publicity photos went a long way to putting over a player's personality.
We asked for dozen Tinseltown types to tell us which female star's movie costume lingered in their mind long after the movie was over.
Reluctant movie star Andy Garcia explains why he doesn't like to be on magazine covers, defends his decision to let his daughters act and reaffirms his commitment never to do nude sex scenes.
Molly Ringwald, once the style-setter of her generation, is now a beloved, nostalgic fallen icon. She will or she won't come back, but there's no doubt she's the height of chic in limbo.
Billy Baldwin describes the high points of shooting sex scenes with Cindy Crawford, reveals how he proposed to Chynna Phillips and confesses that he knocked out his mother's teeth.
Jennifer Beals, ever on the verge of returning to the glory days of the Flashdance era, has three new movies coming up. To hear her tell it, she got these parts by praying to the "shoe God."
Antonio Banderas stands poised on the edge of the international stardom no Spanish actor before him has ever achieved. If the El Mariachi sequel, Desperado, doesn't do it, the Sylvester Stallone pic Assassins is coming up. On top of that, his affair with Melanie Griffith has made him the topic of Tinseltown's steamiest gossip.
Where else but in Hollywood does fame mean having your name stepped on by tourists, runaways, hookers and crack dealers?
Renée Zellweger got her start in show biz by landing small roles in films such as Dazed and Confused and Reality Bites--films shot in her native Texas. Then she nabbed the lead in Love and a .45. No one saw .45, but casting directors were impressed with her turn as a white-trash, trailer park-dwelling sex kitten who joins her drug store-robbing boyfriend on the lam. Now she's starring in a big-budget film, Empire Records, playing yet another white-trash vixen. Although she keeps playing trash, in person Zellweger is polite, sweet and more fun than a barrel of cowboys.
Salma Hayek's transition from soap star in Mexico to movie star in America did not happen overnight, but she has sure been successful.
What movie are you addicted to? That's what we asked 50 celebrities to confess. What film stops 'em cold whenever they're channel-surfing in the middle of the night? Which one can they see again and again--and again?
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