Although Julia Louis-Dreyfus dreamed of becoming a glam movie queen like her idol Barbara Stanwyck, she's found, since becoming a household name with the hit series "Seinfeld," that celebrity-hood is different than it appears to be from afar.
Jim "Ace Ventura" Carrey talks about getting crazy on- and offscreen, about having sex with a rug, about romancing Linda Ronstadt, and about his big summer movie The Mask.
Director James Cameron's films have all been big, complex, special effects-propelled dramas--and nearly all have been blockbusters. Here Cameron talks about working with Arnold Schwarzenegger, about whether actresses should reconsider their objections to screen violence, and about why his new action-comedy True Lies is unlikely to meet the fate of Arnold's last action-comedy.
As we do every year, we've asked 52 celebrities to tell us about the movies that changed their lives. The next time you're in a quandary over what to rent at the video store, pick up one of these life-changing flicks!
Vixen vigilantes, vamping viragoes and otherwise very nice young women have taken to taking up arms on-screen.
What do female moviegoers learn from the movies about being women? Fortunately, not much.
She wanted it, she got it. And when she figured what it would cost her, she was off "by at least 2000 percent." Sharon Stone talks about the upside and downside of her hypercelebrity.
Denise Di Novi, the producer behind such quirky fare as Heathers, Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns, gets her way without raising her voice. Here she talks about just how hard it is getting "weird" movies made, what she thinks of the upcoming Ed Wood, and why she walked away from running Tim Burton's production company.
After watching 29 nun movies, our intrepid reporter feels certain that everyone associated with these films--producers, directors, writers, stars--will burn in hell for all eternity. Of course, as he also notes, "Everyone who works in the movie business is going to burn in hell for all eternity anyway."
Like the rest of us, they have more than enough reasons. But because they're actors, their reasons are more attractive and more dramatic. If you want to fully justify your next bender, read these pensees and go get a SAG card.
We asked five otherwise sober, emotionally balanced journalists to tell us which movie stars they're nuts enough about to see in anything. And while they're at it, they tell us which stars they were addicted to back in their silly teen years.
On the set of City Slickers 2, Jon Lovitz interviewed his Oscar-winning co-star Jack Palance for Movieline.
That's what someone once said to James Garner, who's now in his fourth decade of making films. Here, the original star of TV's "Maverick" talks about making the new movie Maverick, reveals that he'd like to kick the shit out of Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh, and opens up about why he's had to fight everyone from his stepmother at home to a studio head in court.
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