River Phoenix would be an anomaly anywhere, let alone show business. The Oregon-born actor was named after the river of life in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, and spent his childhood wandering Central America with his parents, then missionaries for an organization called The Children of God. They raised an incurable idealist.
With roles in Milos Forman's opulent Valmont and the upcoming Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes, Meg Tilly has a rare second chance at major stardom. Anybody else would be fanning the career fires at Spago, Meg's off in the Canadian Woods raising her kids in a big log cabin.
The actor who isn't returning as Michael J. Fox's dad in Back to the Future II is turning over a new leaf (again).
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation star Chevy Chase admits that reading A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live made him cry.
It's one of the ironies of show business that when Audrey Hepburn came out of retirement to return to the screen, it was opposite Sean Connery in the 1976 Robin and Marian; now, she's back again, this time not as Connery's co-star-but as his replacement-in Steven Spielberg's Always.
One of the spring's brightest films was only a modest success in theaters; "I hope it has a life in video," says filmmaker Cameron Crowe.
Philip Noyce, Cameron Crowe and others play My Favorite Scene with Movieline.
He looks mean in Armani. He looks mean in jeans. Face it, Kevin Dillon looks mean in anything if you've seen his fist-clenching performance as the deranged "Bunny" in Platoon.
Will the Steel Magnolias star who one wanted to be "just like Shirley Temple" now follow her role model off the screen into a committed life public good works?
Philip Noyce, Cameron Crowe and others play My Favorite Scene with Movieline.
What passes for social life in Hollywood is largely a matter of quid pro quo.
There have always been Latino actors in Hollywood, but the current contingent is smashing the role barriers.
Since she burst lustily on the scene as the freewheeling Daisy, brimming over with carnal knowledge, in the surprise hit Mystic Pizza, Julia Roberts has invariably been identified as actor Eric Roberts's younger sister.
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