Now that the golden girl of the '70s is beginning to reappear on the big screen, it's a good time to look back and trace her long, strange trip of hard work, talent, good luck and questionable decisions.
Joel Schumacher, the director of such hits films as Flatliners, St. Elmo's Fire, and The Lost Boys, started out 21 years ago as a costume designer. In his Bel-Air home, he admits that his movies are like his "children," and says he worries whether sometimes he has "failed that child."
The extremely successful, supremely self-effacing Adrian Lyne talkes about L.A. disappointing decline (in alcohol consumption, that is), Anglo-American prudery, and the challenge of keeping Demi Moore from looking like a whole in his new film, Indecent Proposal.
It's the second time around for our roving reporter and Hollywood's best-looking bad boy. Depp gets loose and lets fly on everything from Winona Ryder, collecting skeletons and making movies he's not ashamed of, to Buster Keaton, breast-feeding and "making love with Bonnie Parker."
Given that Dermot Mulroney plays an aspiring country songwriter in Peter Bogdanovich's upcoming film The Thing Called Love, I attempt to score some points with the actor by offering to teach him the Achy Breaky dance, a diverting morsel of boot-scootin' footwork I picked up at a local country bar.
With the success of Menace II Society, the 21-year-old Hughes Brothers have taken Hollywood by storm. Here the opinionated twins share their thoughts on everything from what's wrong with Halle Berry to what's right about looting.
You're the best-looking kid in your graduating class, and you secretly dream of hopping a bus to Hollywood where you'll be immediately discovered and turned, overnight, into a star. Stranger things have happened, right? Well, before you leave home, we suggest you read the following cautionary tales. Perhaps these six case studies of "instant" fame--Julia Roberts, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, John Travolta, Linda Blair and Christopher Atkins--will make you think twice about what can happen after your dreams come true.
Over a long Editorial Retreat weekend, we got together away from the stress of the office to survey the acting achievements of Young Hollywood and selected the 10 best performances given by an actor or actress under age 30 in the last five years. We managed to settle on the 10 without the expected fuss--by Monday, only one person had been fired. Your favorite is not here, you say? What of it? This is our list. We asked Rebecca Morris to go watch the 10 movies and explain our choices to us and to you.
The film industry is commonly regarded as either a cultural landfill, a General Motors assembly line or a self-adoring, power-lunching version of ancient Babylon. For me, I've always pictured it as a giant, wind-breaking gastrointestinal system, trying its best to digest the non nutritious mountains of Batman Cereal that are shoveled into its maw.
There are flagrant conclusions to be drawn about people who choose to live in the steep hills collaring the rabid, happy dog of Los Angeles. If caution is not a way of life to everyone who faces the twists, turns and runaway descents of these neighborhoods, it's because some were born lucky.
A casting director told me that when you're with Moira Kelly, it's like sitting in a room with Robert De Niro or Winona Ryder--you sense a major talent.
Long after a sexy movie's made its way to the bargain bin at your video store, the gossip lingers on: were the stars making love for real when those steamy scenes were filmed? An informal survey of the movies most whispered about separates the acting from the act.
Lara Flynn Boyle, whose movie career kicked into gear when her TV series "Twin Peaks" kicked the bucket, comes on as a self-described "young girl" whose Mother Knows Best--but she's got the tensile smarts to survive the mean streets of Hollywood.
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