Sharon Stone: Wild Thing
A hurricane of protest surrounded the filming of Basic Instinct. Will 1992's sexy, controversial, and talked-about thriller launch the sexy, controversial, talked-about Sharon Stone into the front ranks of Hollywood's femmes fatales?
The King and His Court
Madonna is not the first rocker to make movies as bad as those in the cinema d'Elvis Presley and--sad to say--she won't be the last. Here's a look at the big-screen blunders of everyone from Prince, Sting, and Mick Jagger to David Byrne, Diana Ross, and Bob Dylan.
Rebecca DeMornay: My Lunch With Rebecca
The rather reclusive beauty Rebecca DeMornay converses about Hollywood style downhill racing, pretend breast-feeding, and then unseen talent of Tom Cruise.
Liam Neeson: Puttin' on the Ritz
Liam Neeson pours the bubbly and spreads the charm in Room 2103.
JFK Filmography "Dead Again and Again"
An exclusive expose of Hollywood's secret attempts to turn the assassination of John F. Kennedy into big box-office entertainment.
Dye Dye My Darling
Back in the heyday of the studio system, nobody thought that the men who ran the factories were gentlemen. Still, there's no doubt that they preferred blondes, so there was a new crop every season. Since nature falls short when it comes to supplying real blondes, most of the bombshells, ice maidens, femmes fatales, screwballs and faux virgins ended up addicted to the bottle. It was worth it--in a town fueled by fantasies, no illusion was better box office than the golden girl of the silver screen.
David Cronenberg: Get Happy
If Scanners, Videodrome, and Dead Ringers didn't lift your spirits, you missed the point. David Cronenberg, director of the new Naked Lunch, talks about life, death, pain, guilt, heaven, hell and, yes, happiness.
Tony Scott: Where the Boys Are
Manhood, in its tug o' war between sensitivity and secretion, has lost sight of the things near and dear to its collective and heretofore unbreakable heart. What we've become, if I read my Iron John right, has little to do with what we really are. No one knows this better than Tony Scott, kahuna of kick-ass, duke of dude, Buddha of buddy films.
Steven Spielberg On the Couch
There is only one film director alive today whose name is a household word. Steven Spielberg achieved that status at an astonishingly early age by creating a series of movies which managed to appeal to that most elusive, yet massive, audience, "children of all ages."
Rush to the Top
The whiplash rise of Lili Fini Zanuck--from producer's wife to production gofer to Oscar-winning producer of Driving Miss Daisy to first-time director of the new film Rush--has left everyone in town breathless. Everyone, that is, but the woman herself. Here, over lunch, she drops a few clues to what's really driving Ms. Zanuck.
My Favorite Scene
Philip Noyce, Cameron Crowe and others play My Favorite Scene with Movieline.
Mark Rydell vs. The 800 Pound Gorillas
The Hollywood jungle drums have for years been passing along tales of the fearless exploits of director Mark Rydell, tamer of ferocious, director-mangling actors. In view of the fact that his last three movies, The Rose, On Golden Pond, and The River, together won 17 Oscar nominations, many in acting categories, Rydell obviously has the clout to take on these predators. But it's not just these credentials that Rydell takes onto the set--when necessary, he can bear his teeth and beat his breast with some of the scariest specimens this side of Skull Island. While shooting The Cowboys, for instance, only his third movie, he chewed out historical landmark John Wayne before a stunned cast and crew.
Kim Cattrall: Of Vulcan Bondage
"There was a feeling on the set when we did it that it was really uncharted territory," says Kim Cattrall before crunching into one of the plums she brought from home.
