Word: filming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dawson's Creek. Sarah Polley--with Creature-from-the-Black-Lagoon eyes and a mouth born to pout (some clever director will cast her as Heather Graham's younger, savvier sister)--is a cashier. Party of Five's dreamboat Scott Wolf is in Polley's check-out line. The film isn't five minutes old and already you suspect you'll be entranced even if it stinks...
Julia Stiles is a straight-A high school senior who just turned 18 two weeks ago. She has a publicist. She has an agent. She co-authored a script that's in rewrites, and she has the leading role in a studio film. All of which makes her remarkably similar to the 289,000 other adolescents currently jockeying to be Hollywood's next big thing. Surely you've noticed how each weekend brings scores of cheaply made movies packed with TV kids from the WB or Fox networks (see previous review). Stiles thinks it's unfair to stereotype the genre...
...BONDED WITH MADONNA: Asked to appear in a Material Girl-produced film about a young pyromaniac, Stiles took an informal meeting with her longtime feminist influence. "She's very assertive, and nobody's bossing her around," the younger actress says, mimicking Madonna's screwy new British accent. "I've always kind of tried to emulate that...
...SUCCESSFULLY "OPENED" A FILM: Well, it remains to be seen if 10 Things will do as well as Stiles--or Disney--hopes. The studio moved the release date up, hoping to capitalize on spring break. If the movie does well, Stiles could become Hollywood's latest overnight star--seven years after she began her acting career...
DIED. GARY MORTON, 74, film and TV producer and husband of the late Lucille Ball; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Morton was a popular stand-up comic when he met Ball on a blind date. He went on to produce The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, among others. The couple were married nearly 28 years...