Had it with the prickley, preachy, self-righteous, self-promoting guy who wrote and directed prickly, preachy stuff like Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever? Meet the new laughing, self-effacing auteur behind Malcolm X.
The director of Home Alone and Home Alone 2 talks about getting out of the factory town he grew up in, getting fired by Steven Spielberg, getting creamed by critics, getting to direct Macaulay Culkin . . . and now getting to do whatever the hell he wants.
Our fearless reporter tries to get the press-shy star to return to earth long enough to answer a question or two.
Now that Gary Oldman has ascended to the status of playing lead vampire in a major motion picture, the town is in need of a new narrow-faced, paste-white, disagreeably serious actor to take those showcase roles in "uncompromising" small films.
Tim Robbins only looks like the cherub next door. In real life, the star, writer and director of the plitical satire Bob Roberts worries about the dismal state of the nation and seems to have done so since as far back as when he actually was the cherub next door.
Stephen Frears takes time away from finishing his new movie, Hero, to talk about how nice he thinks people in Hollywood (including Dustin Hoffman) really are.
A screenwriter who doesn't want to direct? Despite his Hollywood success with The Color of Money and Sea of Love, novelist/screenwriter Richard Price knows his talent is writing. Here Price talks about being a novelist and a screenwriter, about working with Martin Scorsese, about his novel Clockers and about writing the new Night and the City.
Unlike the grunting Cro-Magnon he plays in Encino Man, Brendan Fraser loves to talk.
Cameron Crowe, former Rolling Stone journalist turned writer/director, has made a movie about people falling for each other in the Singles scene. Here, he chats about everything from what it's like watching people fall for the star of his film to what it's like seeing people fall for his rock-star wife.
After years of immersing herself so completely in her roles that she was barely recognizable from one film to the next, the extraordinary Jennifer Jason Leigh may finally have made her mark with Single White Female.
Tired of surveys that ask moviegoers, "Who are your favorite stars"? What about the stars whose very presence on-screen feels to you like fingernails on chalkboard? We asked a random sample of fans stuck in the two-hour line for Batman Returns on Hollywood Boulevard what actors they just can't stand. With stars like Mel Gibson or Michelle Pfeiffer, you'd have to search far and wide for someone who hates them--even indifference would be difficult to find. But the following eight performers came up quickly and repeatedly in our scientific survey to determine Hollywood's most unwanted stars.
Oh to be young, gay and broke. New York filmmaker Tom Kalin cadges a cup of coffee and explains how Swoon, his movie about '20s child killers Leopold and Loeb, differs from the two homophobic films Hollywood has already made about the same guys.
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