Paul Rudnick, the openly gay writer who penned the script of Addams Family Values, lives in John Barrymore's Greenwich flat. He's one of the funniest gay men we've got, as he demonstrates in a conversation that ranges from whether he's glad he took his name off Sister Act to homophobia in Hollywood.
Can the schemes and incidents Hollywood blithely depicts in the movies actually be recreated in real life? Joe Queenan risks his life to prove, once again, the answer is: NO!
As Hollywood's hottest film composer readies his most personal project, the upcoming animated musical, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, he lets fly on everything from the rumors that he doesn't compose his own scores to what's wrong with cramming pop tunes into movies.
I'm one of those people who has to take a big pill and go to bed at the very sight of an Olsen Twin. So I had reservations about interviewing 13-year-old Christina Ricci, who's making her second outing as Wednesday Addams in Addams Family Values.
Chris O'Donnell, the fair-haired star of Scent of a Woman, spent months working with Kiefer Sutherland and Charlie Sheen and still seems like a sweet kid from the Midwest.
Though she's certain she's not a good interview subject, Bridget Fonda talks about everything you could hope for, from doing drugs and shooting nude scenes to growing up a Fonda and falling in love with Eric Stoltz. But whatever you do, don't call her a "hot" actress!
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, star of many a film by Pedro Almodovar, has broken camp and taken up English with showy parts in Philadelphia, The House of the Spirits and the upcoming Interview with the Vampire.
After the success of The Player, Robert Altman has turned to Raymond Carver's stories as the basis for his new film, Short Cuts. Here he chats about everything from Hollywood and the importance of male nudity in the movies to pot smoking and the likelihood of his ever winning an Oscar.
She's the brave beauty Daniel Day-Lewis was willing to die for in The Last of the Mohicans. In real life, though, Madeleine Stowe is a little more timid. And much more mysterious.
Maybe it was the pain that came with wading into the part of a brutalized teenager in This Boy's Life, but star-in-the-making Leonardo DiCaprio, 19, says he relished playing Arnie, Johnny Depp's dimwitted brother in Gilbert Grape, a winsomely oddball comedy-drama from director Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog).
James Caan was a huge star in the '70s and then virtually disappeared until Misery and Honeymoon in Vegas resurrected him. Here he talks and talks about Coppola, gambling, Italian friends, Streisand, his new movies, Barry Diller and plenty more.
Director Gus Van Sant relaxes after a hard day of work and explains where he was in the '60s, what Harvey Milk meant in the '70s, and why drugged whooping cranes could make for big box office in the '90s.
The night before the megadud Last Action Hero was officially released last summer, one of my best friends called the house around 10:30 p.m. and asked if I would like to attend a midnight preview of the film.
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