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...moment, Linney's in a very happy place. This month she'll begin shooting "The Mothman Prophecies," a thriller that will reunite her with Gere, and she's considered the most worthy Oscar competition for "Erin Brockovich"'s Julia Roberts. But knowing how fortunes can turn, Linney isn't waiting until the nominations are announced next month to enjoy the ride. "Awards or no," she says, "it feels pretty damn good...
This past year the movie gods smiled on Soderbergh once again, and this time they grinned like Julia Roberts on ecstasy. As director of last spring's Erin Brockovich, he coaxed the best performance yet out of the biggest female movie star on Planet Earth and generated more than $256 million at the box office worldwide. Now his new film, Traffic, an epic sweep through the international drug trade, has been named Best Picture by the New York Film Critics Circle...
...irony--the nation's newly appointed drug czar. "Steven jumps from one venue to another better than anybody." When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed down its Golden Globe nominations for 2000, Soderbergh's amazing versatility was rewarded with two directing nods--one for Traffic and one for Erin Brockovich. Which means that as the Oscar race heats up, Soderbergh is facing off against himself...
...fantastically fantastic Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Between Harry, boy bands and PlayStation 2, it was a very good year to be 12.) In architecture, Frank Gehry's baroque fantasies reached a mainstream audience through the Experience Music Project in Seattle. In the hit film Erin Brockovich, a feel-good fantasy posed as the real world...
...months earning more than $100 million reinforces the who's-in-it? who-cares? trend. Only six, besides M:I2, had front-line performers: Tom Hanks in The Green Mile and (we're being generous) Toy Story 2, Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath, Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Mel Gibson in The Patriot and Eddie Murphy in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. The other winners connected with audiences' fondness for old franchises (the James Bond The World Is Not Enough), twisted family dramas (American Beauty, Double Jeopardy), barnyard critters (Stuart Little, Chicken Run) and black comics dolled...