Movieline asked me to call the Other Coast and talk on the phone to Sarah Jessica Parker, and because she's one of my favorite actresses, I agreed, even though I hate the phone these days and recently achieved a certain notoriety at the studio for tossing one out my office window, barely missing the production president's Plexxus 2000.
Come inside the cave of producer/screenwriter/director Oliver Stone, where men are men and women exist, at best, only to please. Our reporter took a long look at those etchings on the wall -- JFK, Platoon, Wall Street, Salvador, and The Doors -- and concluded, "It's a man's, man's, man's, man's world".
Meryl Streep, the best dramatic actress of her generation, talks about the drawbacks of getting so many oscar nominations, why she's never worked with Al Pacino and what a nice guy Bruce Willis is.
Can a movie that (1) is called Buffy the Vampire Slayer, (2) stars Luke Perry, Rutger Hauer, Donald Sutherland and an unknown starlet and (3) is described as "Wayne's World meets Heathers meets 'Beverly Hills, 90210' meets The Lost Boys" slay 'em at the box office?
Annabelle Sciorra, the star of Whispers in the Dark, lets down her hair and lets fly on everything from filming sex scenes and meeting strangers on the street, to slugging Rebecca DeMornay and kissing Wesley Snipes.
Each of the movie stars named here earns at least $6 million every time he (that's right he) makes a picture. Considering that almost every one of these stars has one or more resounding bombs to his name, it makes perfect sense to ask--and we are not the first to do so--are these guys worth it?
While waiting to interview "Saturday Night Live" refugee and budding screen comedian Jon Lovitz in his manager's posh Sunset Strip office, I check out the many well-framed posters from hit films on display and wonder if, in a few years, Lovitz's movies will be similarly enshrined. Did some reporter, ages ago, wonder the same thing about Chevy Chase, before he unleashed the likes of Oh Heavenly Dog and Modern Problems? Or about Dan Aykroyd before Doctor Detroit and Nothing But Trouble?
He's not a household name--yet--but the Irish charmer Gabriel Byrne is one of the hottest properties around town. Here, he talks about his three new movies, why good actors sometimes make bad films, getting the call to serve god and how come he's the lucky one married to Ellen Barkin.
Rising from his humble origins in a working-class New Jersey neighborhood, self-described "pussycat" DeVito took on the persona of a mean, wise-cracking grouch and rode it to the pinnacle of Hollywood success. This could well be his best year yet: he plays The Penguin in Batman Returns, stars in Jack the Bear, and co-stars with pal Jack Nicholson in Hoffa, which he also directs.
Do the men who make movies about men of the cloth ever wonder if God is watching? We asked Joe Queenan to judge whether the producers of trash like Monsignor, Last Rites and We're No Angels will burn in hell.
Bruce Dern cuts one of the most durable and recognizable supporting figures in film since Elisha Cook Jr., Dern's presence has given an edge to dozens of movies over the last three decades, but he's achieved his profile with masterful portrayals of men you can't help but hate.
Imagine Entertainment co-CEO Brian Grazer has engineered audience-pleasers from Splash and Parenthood to Kindergarten Cop, Backdraft and My Girl. Here he talks about his Tom Cruise epic, Far and Away, as well as such off-screen interests as surfing, sweat lodges, torture, divorce and eating by the clock.
The judges at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival were so impressed with Samuel L. Jackson's portrayal of Gator the crackhead in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever that they created the category Best Supporting Actor just so they could honor him. Jackson himself was in New York looking for a job when this compliment was bestowed. "I called my agent to see if I'd received any call-backs," he says of the day he heard about it. His response to the news? "I said, 'Oh, wow, that's great! So did I have any call-backs?'"
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