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Lend Me Your Ears
No on-screen appendage is truly safe in this age of violent cinema. If you think ears are, just listen up!
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Annette Bening: A Private Star
"In retrospect, it's all sort of hilarious," says Annette Bening of the media circus in which her current life as star, mother, and wife of Warren Beatty began. Here she opens up about why she dislikes feminist complaints about Hollywood, what actors intimidate her, and just how unlikely it is her husband would approve of her doing a nude scene like the one she did in The Grifters.
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Christian Slater: The Responsible Romantic
Christian Slater, young enough to take over for River Phoenix in Interview With the Vampire and old enough to play Kevin Bacon's lawyer in Murder in the First, talks about taking responsibility for everything from preventing his coffee from getting too creamy to avoiding the home-wreckers who are out to destroy his relationship.
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Dylan McDermott: Miracle Man
Between In the Line of Fire and Steel Magnolias, you could suppose everyone has seen Dylan McDermott in a movie--they just don't blame him or give him credit for any of them.
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Stan Winston: The Michelangelo of Monsters
Special effects maestro Stan Winston discusses the special artistry of bringing horrible images to the big screen and the special challenge of keeping Tom Cruise from looking silly in Interview With the Vampire.
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Neil Jordan Bites the Big One
Is there any way to satisfy audiences who've been waiting years for the movie version of Anne Rice's novel Interview With the Vampire? Writer-director Neil Jordan thinks so, and he has some surprises in store--like his notion that the vampires are just another "dysfunctional family."
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James Woods: Out of the Woods?
After being trapped in career hell, romance hell and scandal hell, James Woods says he's back on top, working with filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone. Here, the actor lets fly about greedy agents, double-crossing lovers, baring his all on-screen and why he hates hookers.
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Patrick Stewart: The Next Generation
The proper British actor who invented Captain Picard and is bringing him to the big screen talks about the agony of "Star Trek" costumes, the ecstasy of a certain country music songstress and the oddity of being mistaken for Ben Kingsley.
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Aidan Quinn: The Mighty Quinn
Aidan Quinn is in demand, well paid, and respected by his peers. Yet he's not a big star, and he likes it that way. Here he talks about everything from doing nude scenes and kissing men to working for "insane" directors and the importance of saying "I love you."
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Camille Paglia's Target Practice
Anti-feminist feminist Camille Paglia takes aim at the follies and foolishness of the film world.
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Johnny Depp: In Depp
The star of some pretty strange movies tells some pretty strange tales--about fighting armadillos, meeting Marlon Brando, getting freaked out at the Oscars and stepping into women's shoes.
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Jennifer Connelly: Coming Up Connelly
I'm walking through a Santa Monica coffeehouse with Jennifer Connelly when a gentleman patron pipes, "Are you Jennifer Connelly? You're my favorite actress and you're in my dreams." It almost seems staged, but then Connelly turns to me and whispers, "Scary--he has dreams about me? I won't ask."
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Mary-Louise Parker: Oh Mary!
"I don't get parts because of the way I look. I lose parts. I thought I was really fuckin' cute until I got into the movie business." So says Mary-Louise Parker, who has been getting gigs in Hollywood because of her reputation as a strong, theater-trained actress, not because of her face.
