Penelope Ann Miller is late. The photo shoot's already been moved back an hour, and she's--well, she's still not here. The photographer's assistants exchange brief, worried looks. Penny was up till 6:3O this morning finishing her next film (Kindergarten Cop, an Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy), says her publicist. Well, I figure anyone who's been up all night with Arnle making a movie can be a little late, because that must be draining. Meanwhile, the photographer next door is shooting David Lynch, so everyone wanders outside to see Lynch posing on Melrose.
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We were surprised and hurt at your charges of sexism in response to our brutally honest critiques of the careers of eight actresses who failed to make the grade. To prove just how fair we are, we've now asked three writers to tell us what went wrong with the careers of eight actors (and Steve Guttenberg) who didn't become the next Brando.
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If Ralph Kramden had ever had kids, it's easy to imagine that one of them might have been Jim Belushi.
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Adrian Lyne became one of the hottest directors of the past decade by pursuing his compulsive enthusiasm for slick surfaces in movies such as Flashdance, 9 1/2 Weeks, and Fatal Attraction. Will the new Jacob's Ladder be Lyne's artistic breakthrough, or just another one of his skin deep pretty pictures?
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Though recently named by a national magazine as one of Hollywood's most powerful people, Steven Seagal scoffs at the notion.
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From the new book Hollywood at Home, Sid Avery's portraits of stars at leisure are relics of a more innocent age
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Philip Noyce, Cameron Crowe and others play My Favorite Scene with Movieline.
In the town where I live there are two video stores. One is the kind that carries Melanie Griffith movies and one is the kind that doesn't. Oh, all right, they both carry Griffith's mainstream flicks Working Girl and Something Wild. But if you want to see vintage Griffith, prime Griffith, the Ur-Griffith that made Melanie the actress she is today--movies like Cherry 2000, Fear City, Joyride-- you have to visit the video store in the rundown part of town. The other video store doesn't cater to that kind of clientele.
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Matthew Modine may not have starred in a blockbuster movie yet. That's just the luck of the draw. But he has managed to work with some of the best film-makers in the business. That's not just luck. Here, Modine talks about the pleasures and pains of working with talents like Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Demme, Robert Altman, Alan Parker, Alan J. Pakula, and now, on Pacific Heights, John Schlesinger.
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On the night before I moved away from my hometown, I leaned over and kissed Larry Kaminsky. Larry was the stupidest boy in our class and the butt of all the jokes. But he wore his jeans slung low on his hips, in a style that continues to attract me even to this day, and he was the sexiest boy I knew. When I kissed him, all the kids in the play ground started pointing at me and whispering and saying that I had cooties. You remember cooties, don't you? That nebulous social disease--an unseen, unknown curse that comes upon you when you do something stupid or gross? The plague you can't really catch, but being around someone who has it leads other people to believe that you have it, too, which amounts to the same thing?
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Feverish
Fun couple of the hour Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts celebrate their first film together at the Flatliners Premiere
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Connie Stevens has led a definitive Hollywood life. Twenty-five years ago, when she was best known as Cricket on TV's "Hawaiian Eye" she couldn't even get an audition for Mike Nichols's first film, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. This year, Nichols rented her Beverly Hills mansion to shoot his film version of Carrie Fisher's novel Postcards From the Edge. And if that twist isn't surreal enough, keep in mind that Carrie is the daughter of Stevens's ex-husband Eddie Fisher.
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Fly me. I'm Mel.
The notoriously reclusive Gibson Guy showed up for the Premiere of his movie Air America
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