Director Herbert Ross can be (and is) accused of many things. A boring career is not one of them. Here, the inimitable Hollywood veteran talks about wrangling divas, delivering hits, and turning Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid into a stylish comic duo for Undercover Blues.
Still beloved by teens, but yet to carry a major hit, the reformed Christian Slater makes his bid for breathing room with Tony Scott's True Romance.
Buoyed by your letters telling us how much you enjoyed last year's roundup of the films that 52 celebrities said had changed their lives, we've once again asked 52 famous folk to tell all. Next time you're stymied at the video store, pick up one of these life-changing flicks.
Our intrepid reporter has a second encounter with the silver screen's best bad girl, and finds that although she's working and playing in Hollywood's fastest lane, the fastest thing about her is her way with a smart remark.
The star who passed up Pretty Woman, Ghost, and The Silence of the Lambs to make The Doors, Joe Versus the Volcano and Prelude to a Kiss is back in business in a big way, with two new eagerly anticipated films, Sleepless in Seattle and Flesh and Bone. And a good thing, too, for here she reveals, "I'd be insane if I wasn't an actress."
One of the screen's great comediennes talks about being directed by Robert Altman and Woody Allen, chats about everyone from Bette Davis to Bette Midler, and reveals why she's selling videos out of her garage.
Holed up with scorching up-and-coming actress Halle Berry in a hotel room overlooking Universal Studios, I feel like I'm living a scene from The Bodyguard, the Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston megahit I laughed clear through. The biggest difference between that film and the events that have befallen Berry in the last 24 hours is that no one's laughing.
In a world overrun by film sequels, our trusty reporter viewed over a dozen Part III movies in hopes of answering the unasked question: "Are Part IIIs really different from Part IIs or Part VIs?"
The award-winning actress who made her mark at the edge of the mainstream talks about Jungian dream work, bonding, nurturing and the possibility that Jurassic Park will be the hit that lets her demand $5 million a picture.
It was a challenge to narrow this list down to 100, but a scrupulous winnowing effort yielded the following collective and individual stupid moves. Remember, it's only the tip of the iceberg.
Since the down of cinema man, Hollywood has tried to pass off lizards, puppets and men in monster suits as dinosaurs. Now that we have Jurassic Park to look forward to, it's a good time to look back at the long line of movies designed to part a 10-year-old from his allowance.
Cuba Gooding Jr. and I are on the trampoline in his mammoth backyard for a number of reasons. First, it's a beautiful day. Second, there's no furniture in his San Fernando Valley home--Gooding just moved in four days ago. And third, I figure if the Boyz N the Hood star and I fail to connect. I can win him over with my swivel-hips-into-a-knee-flip combination and call it a day.
As her first film, True Love made clear, director Nancy Savoca despises easy black-and-white situations, simpleminded good-guy/bad-guy definitions and cheap happy endings. No wonder her new film. Household Saints, was not made in Hollywood.
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