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Lindsay Lohan

Hollywood being fraught with sybaritic, drug-addled teen actors as it is, it's refreshing to find an earthy charmer like singer/actress Lindsay Lohan, who first garnered notice with both critics and audiences for her dual role in the 1998 remake The Parent Trap.

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Shane West: Go West

Some actors fall in love embarrassingly easy when on set, romancing one costar after another. Shane West's career to date, however, has brought him beauties of a different sort. "I love and appreciate seeing beautiful cars," says West, star of this summer's comic-book actioner The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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The Night Was Young

Mix today's hottest young stars with Hollywood's biggest headliners and you get one rockin' awards show and after party.

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Virtual Newsstand: Movieline, July/August 2003

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Bryan Singer: Real Simple

Bryan Singer has directed some of Hollywood's more complicated films, most notably The Usual Suspects and most recently the effects-laden X2. That's why he needs his personal space to be breezy and easy.

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Lisa Kudrow: Everything Good

LIsa Kudrow is the first to admit her world is "everything good," thanks to the enormous success of "Friends." But here she reveals the more intimate details of her life -- the alienation she felt in high school, the anti-semitism she faced in college, the one thing she fights about with her husband and the special off-camera bond she shared with Courteney Cox Arquette and Jennifer Aniston.

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James Marsden: He Puts the X in Sexy

Among the famous faces in the X-Men franchise--Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen. Anna Paquin--there is one that has yet to reveal its full potential. Now that James Marsden has more to bite on in the sequel, will his days of anonymity be far behind?

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The Sirens of Summer

These actresses have long been seducing us with their talent and charisma. Now they're the main attractions of this year's hot-weather entertainment. Michael Atkinson explains what makes them worth skipping a day at the beach for.

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Hollywood's Secret Hideout

If Johnny Depp were a hotel, he'd be Chateau Marmont. The two are so alike. The classic bones, the low-key glamour, the romantic decadence, the natural discretion, the streak of rebellion, the modern spirit that can cloak itself convincingly in period disguise--few hotels in the world have so much presence and promise so much enigmatic pleasure.

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Hollywood's Greatest Catfight

The world has relished the evil verbal warfare between Sharon Stone and Madonna, Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth. But nothing beats the lashings Joan Crawford and Bette Davis gave each other.

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White on Wright

Five sizzling actors on the cusp of breakthroughs this summer inaugurate the season in breezy whites at Lloyd Wright's famed Sowden House.

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Kelly Hu

We catch up with X2 star Kelly Hu on her 35th birthday as she gets ready for the opera.

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Chasing Light in Venice

Cinematographer Wally Pfister shares the journal he kept while filming the summer's megaremake The Italian Job in Venice.

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Gretchen Mol: Mol or Nothing

Auteur Neil Labute has directed Renee Zellweger and Gwyneth Paltrow, but for both the stage and screen versions of his critically acclaimed play The Shape of Things, he wanted Hollywood hype survivor Gretchen Mol.

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Virtual Newsstand: Movieline, May/June 2003

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