January Jones: January in September
January Jones, appearing in American Wedding, Love Actually, and next year's spin on Dirty Dancing, takes a breather on Chanel's rooftop above Rodeo Drive.
Heidi Fleiss: Rinse, Lather, Repeat
Heidi Fleiss--once known worldwide as "the Hollywood Madam" and still a symbol of decadence years after completing her prison sentence for money laundering, tax evasion and attempted pandering--talks about her new incarnation as designer and author, and sees Shampoo for the first time.
Peggy Moffitt: The Moffitt Movie
Mod muse Peggy Moffitt's L.A. story gelled when she teamed with designer Rudi Gernreich and photographer William Claxton revolutionizing fashion with one snap of the camera's shutter.
Fashion Victims
Hollywood has always had the ability to turn something that is very new into something that is very old very quickly. Right now that seems to be happening with the retro duds genre. What started out as a good idea with films like Dazed and Confused, Boogie Nights and Velvet Goldmine--which introduced the young to the terrifying fashions of the '70s, while serving as a grim reminder to Baby Boomers who had lived through that sartorially toxic era--is now getting a bit out of hand.
Sharon Stone: The Unbelievable Brightness of Being
Sharon Stone left the spotlight, encountered white light and now sees life in a new light altogether. Here she talks about her return to the screen and the strange changes she's been through in the last few years - everything from miraculous healing and communicating with the beyond to restarting her career and ending her marriage.
Christopher Gorham
After playing unpopular in "Popular" and getting good notices in the wholesome indie The Other Side of Heaven as well as Showtime's "Odyssey 5," 29-year-old Christopher Gorham landed the titular role of UPN's big post-"Buffy" thriller "Jake 2.0," in which he plays an NSA tech-support nerd accidentally given awesome superhuman abilities.
Fred Segal: Legends of the Cutting Edge
Nicole Kidman, Ben Affleck, Winona Ryder, Leonardo Dicaprio, Meg Ryan. The list of stars who go there is longer than the list of those who don't. Fred Segal is the source for fashion and the primo incubator of next big things.
Gary Ross: The Final Stretch
Back in the '30s, Hollywood stars gathered to watch the great thoroughbred Seabiscuit fly down the stretch at Santa Anita. Now director Gary Ross reteams with his Pleasantville star Tobey Maguire to bring Hollywood back to racing in this summer's Seabiscuit.
Gerard Butler: The Butler Did It
Not so long ago, Scottish lawyer turned actor Gerard Butler was a stellar (and stellar-looking) actor in need of a worthy project, now, including the starring role in The Phantom of the Opera, he has three.
To Live & Divorce in L.A.
Marital breakups are hellish no matter where they take place. But in L.A., the stakes are sky-high, the fallout is brutal, the publicity is nasty and all too often one or both of the spouses can act.
London Calling
It was the sixties. Fashion, films and sexual attitudes were changing. Antonioni made Blow Up, but who took these recently discovered photographs?
When Great Beginnings End
Precisely thirty-nine minutes and 12 seconds into the very bad, very long, but mostly very bad 3000 Miles to Graceland, Kevin Costner whips out an unmistakably phallic, nickel-plated six-shooter and blows away Christian Slater. The shockingly greasy, oafishly duck-tailed honcho of a cabal of unlikely Elvis impersonators who have just knocked over a casino in Vegas, Costner had taken exception to several thoughtless remarks Slater had made about Costner's fixation on the King.
Angelina Jolie: The Education of Angelina Jolie
The passion for Billy Bob Thornton is history, and the glitz is gone. The Oscar-winning star of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life has only one man in her life now, her adopted son, and she worries more about the hunger of refugees in Africa and the danger of tigers in Cambodia than about the lost souls or carnivorous predators of Hollywood.
