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Christopher Reeve's days as a leading man are far from over. The actor, who recently finished the HBO film In the Gloaming, his directorial debut, has been offered the role of the wheelchair-bound nosy neighbor in a remake of the 1954 thriller Rear Window. "It's going to be a real showcase of what people in [Reeve's] condition can do," says exec producer Robert Gaulin. "Chris is extremely excited about it." Reeve's publicist says the actor is merely considering...
...auteur hag," says his friend director John Waters, and Depp's longtime agent, Tracey Jacobs, agrees. "It all starts with the screenplay," she says, "not the bottom line. Then he chooses directors and actors he likes." Among them--twice, including Depp's upcoming directorial debut, The Brave--is Marlon Brando, another instinctive actor, who almost certainly would have preferred a hide-in-plain-sight career like Depp's to the one he got. Depp, now 33, was lucky. He was given his shot at mainstream studdishness early on and blew it off fast. That was after he scored his first...
This toxic brew fascinates alienated teenage males, who have made Superstar a surprise hit. Since its debut last November, the album has sold more than 1 million copies and climbed as high as No. 3 on the charts, right behind Celine Dion and Kenny G. Rolling Stone magazine put Manson on its cover in January and proclaimed him Best New Artist of 1996. This week Manson makes his screen debut as a seedy porn actor in the David Lynch film Lost Highway...
SENATOR TED KENNEDY He wrote his own role for his debut on TV's Chicago Hope: health-care subcommittee chair...
...auditioning for Ordinary People, and not getting it," KEVIN BACON says. "I didn't even get past the casting director." He obviously bears no grudge toward the guy who later won an Oscar in the role he sought, because he's starring in TIM HUTTON's feature directorial debut, Digging to China. "Being my first time," says Hutton, "it was great working with an actor who had just directed." (Bacon directed Losing Chase in 1996.) In China, Bacon plays a mentally disabled man who forms an odd friendship with a girl played by EVAN WOOD. He gives Hutton high marks...