Look Ma, No Hands!
Movies as diverse as Cape Fear, Something Wild, The Rookie and Bull Durham make it clear we're living in the movies' golden age of bondage, so our trusty reporter put down his own handcuffs long enough to review the classics and create the Essential Home Video Bondage Library. You're welcome.
Kim Basinger: No Regrets
The inimitable Kim Basinger talks about the talk about her, praises her new husband Alec Baldwin and the film they've made together, The Getaway, and gives her verdict on Boxing Helena: "Let's just say I made the right decision."
Jason Scott Lee: Natural Wonder
Jason Scott Lee, the star of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and the upcoming South Seas saga Rapa Nui, talks about the spiritual healing powers of Hawaii, demonstrates martial arts technique to young toughs on the street in London, and massages our reporter's twisted neck.
Halle Berry: Halle-lujah!
As beautiful as she is outspoken, the actress--who made her mark in Jungle Fever, Boomerang and TV's "Queen"--lets fly on everything from making The Flintstones and her career advice for Spike Lee, to competing for roles with Winona, Julia and Marisa, and her marriage to Atlanta Braves ball player David Justice.
Chemistry Class
When love scenes work on the big screen, it's because the sexual chemistry between the actor and actress makes for "a particular kind of movie moment, when cinema leaves respectability behind and starts talkin' cheap carny trash to the tiny trailer-park whore deep within all of us."
Anne Rice: Interview With the Author of Interview With the Vampire
Anne Rice re-condemns the casting of Tom Cruise as the vampire Lestat, and pretty much lets Hollywood have it in the shorts (though she loves movies, especially if they have Tom Berenger in them).
63 Minutes with Richard Gere
Our intrepid reporter spends an hour with the movies' silver fox and manages to get him to talk about everything from working with Sharon Stone and marriage to Cindy Crawford to why people gossip and, yes, a word or two on behalf of Buddhism.
Joan Chen: Chen Reaction
Actress Joan Chen--now a Hollywood veteran who remembers back when Bruce Lee was just about the only Chinese actor who commanded any respect onscreen--chats about the new wave of Chinese films, Chinese filmmakers and Chinese actors, and reveals her unwillingness to leap into a rice paddy for Oliver Stone.
Jim Sheridan: Daniel's Director
The unknown Jim Sheridan directed the not-yet-a-movie-star Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot and changed both their careers forever. Now the director and actor have teamed up again, and the surprise is that their film, In the Name of the Father, is not a megaproduction, but a small, personal film not unlike My Left Foot.
Christopher Walken: Interview with the Antichrist
When Christopher Walken won an Oscar in 1978 he looked like the Next Big Movie Star. He became, instead, a specialist in weird characters. These days he's a virtual Cult Hero -- his recent appearances in Batman Returns and True Romance, and the new Wayne's World II show why.
The Joyful Noise of Bruce Joel Rubin
At 47, he became an "overnight" success story as the screenwriter of the megahit Ghost, then saw the movie of his script Jacob's Ladder bomb. Now, at 50, he's making his directorial debut with yet another life-and-death saga he's penned, My Life. Here, Hollywood's self-appointed metaphysical Mr. Fixit reveals why his flicks "might even be better than going to church."
