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...often says that she prefers her current gig as Miss Virginia to more conventional post-graduate opportunities. “At some point I’m going to have to get a real job, so I want to enjoy this,” she says. “It’s all about what I can do. There are no limits...
...seen before: Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman occupying the same piece of celluloid. Although the two wily veterans were roommates way back in their struggling-actor days, they have never shared the big screen. Runaway Jury, a legal thriller that opens Oct. 17, will be their first co-starring gig. "Gene's always had the ability to be extremely, almost criminally, honest and natural in his work," says Hoffman. Says Hackman: "Dustin takes big chances, a big bite out of something, which I love." Well, now he does. Probably it was different back when they shared a fridge...
...Robert Plant hasn't called, and Grohl is no longer practicing the Zep canon. "The most important thing is that if they do a reunion tour, they find the person most capable of filling in for John Bonham. Of course, I would cut off my c___ to have that gig." The dream lives on. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...didn't mean to create the devil. He just wanted a job. But when Seann William Scott quit his gig stocking shelves at Home Depot to audition for the 10-line part of Steve Stifler in 1999's teen-sex comedy American Pie, he unwittingly invented the icon of the Generation Y frat boy, the Eustace Tilly of the Maxim set. Scott's Stifler, who returns this Friday in the Pie franchise's third installment, American Wedding, is a rich kid dedicated to humiliating those who appear to be his friends. In the first film, he slipped a laxative...
...gig its tormentors. When he went to England to lobby for the American cause, he made his point with another widely reprinted hoax, "An Edict by the King of Prussia." In it the King declared that the Germans had colonized Britain years ago, protected it during wars and had now decided they had the right to levy taxes and restrict British trade. The edict added that the felons in German jails "shall be emptied out" and sent to England "for the better peopling of that country." Lest anyone be so thick as to miss the point, it concluded by noting...