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Deep Inside Sylvia Miles' Shrine to Herself
Grande Dame Sylvia Miles chews out our reporter in a whirlwind tour of her apartment/museum.
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Kim Basinger on Good Kissing, Her Academy Awards Outburst, and Conversations with God
Nobody can accuse Kim Basinger of not speaking her mind. The sexiest mouth in showbiz mouths off about what's Hollywood, and how she plans to build her own entertainment empire in the sticks.
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Janet Leigh on Surviving Hollywood With Style and Grace
Janet Leigh is living proof that it's possible to survive Hollywood stardom with grace and style.
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The Battle Cry of Aldo Ray
After a successful run as a big star of the macho hunk variety in the '50s and '60s, Aldo Ray took a long, hard fall from Hollywood's grace. But Aldo Ray is nothing if not a fighter, as our writer found when he traveled to Northern California to talk with the actor about fame, love, and the cosmic wringer.
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Director Nic Roeg Takes Control
You know when you wake up at 3 a.m. and you can't figure out what's wrong but something is? Then you realize you just had another dream about that film you saw five years ago. Yes, Roeg has that effect on people. Even in person. Even in broad daylight.
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Studio Starlets Ring in the New Year
In the days before young starlets spent all their spare time saving the rain forest, they were forced by contract to spend it luring customers into movie theaters with studio pin-up poses that had nothing to do with movies or acting. No studio publicity department missed an opportunity to deluge photo editors all over the world with the latest shots of comely players posing with cupids for St. Valentine's Day, with cuddly bunnies for Easter, with sparklers for the 4th of July.
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Pierce Brosnan: Roughing It
Pierce Brosnan has traveled far and wide in search of life after his '80s TV series "Remington Steele."
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Penny Marshall: A Penny for your Thoughts
Forget all the horror stories you hear about how hard it is to build a career as a woman director in Hollywood, it's as easy as pie. Just ask Penny Marshall.
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Michelle Pfeiffer: Out of the Past
Men want her. Women love her. Thoroughly modern Michelle Pfeiffer is the one contemporary screen actress who's really got the old movie star magic.
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Mark Peploe: Morocco without Sunglasses
Visual maximalist Bernardo Bertolucci has brought literary minimalist Paul Bowles's Sahara classic The Sheltering Sky to the screen. The film's screenwriter, Mark Peploe, Oscar-winner for Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, explains how this meeting of masters stands out in blinding relief from the desert romances of the past.
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Mandy Patinkin: Monday Near the Park with Mandy
Mandy Patinkin doesn't live like a movie star because he isn't a movie star. Broadway's great singer-actor ponders the vagaries of his Hollywood career from the Manhattan double-penthouse he and his family call home.
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Bad Accents
What do Cher, Dennis Quaid, Barbra Streisand, John Travolta, Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, Meg Tilly, and Mickey Rourke have in common with Laurence Olivier? A time ear for capturing the subtleties of foreign accents.
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Winona Ryder: Ryder on the Storm
Ah, youth. Only one year ago Winona Ryder was spoofing the very idea of movie stars. Since then, she's snagged Johnny Depp, jilted Francis Coppola, and stolen a movie from Cher. And she's barely old enough to vote.
