Word: heartthrobs
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...this movie is Brad Pitt, who showed a great deal of promise in a small role in "Thelma & Louise" and who, since then, has been given virtually nothing to do in the way of performance. Finally, with "Seven," he dispels entirely the notion that he is simply a heartthrob with no acting ability. He has finally broken out of the quandry from which Johnny Depp and Keanu Reeves can never escape. He has proved himself to be an excellent actor...
...location in a handsome old villa in Wujiang City, 10 miles from Suzhou in eastern China, Chen Kaige is shooting Temptress Moon. The film crew, a tight team of 20 or so artisans, is being entertained by the Chinese actress Gong Li and Hong Kong heartthrob Leslie Cheung, both of whom starred in Chen's 1993 hit, Farewell My Concubine. Gong Li picks up a TV remote and pretends it's a telephone ("Wei? Wei?"--"Hello?"), then playfully runs it under a prop man's arm as if she were a beautician with an electric shaver...
...eyebrows were raised when Long Island LotharioJoey Buttafuocowas arrested last month for soliciting sex from an undercover cop on Hollywood's Sunset Strip. But today, just a few blocks away, it was -- oh no! --British heartthrob Hugh Grant.Police say the demure, 34-year-old actor, best known as the lead in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," invited a "known prostitute" into his car in the wee hours and was later "observed to be engaged in an act of lewd conduct." He's due in a Los Angeles courtroom to face a misdemeanor charge July...
Over at General Hospital, once TV's top-rated soap and currently a slightly faded No. 3, writers seem to be aiming for morbid, publicity-conscious social relevance. Last week ABC held a press conference to announce the launch of a new G.H. plot line revolving around dyslexic heartthrob Stone Cates (Michael Sutton). Stone, a former street kid who dates likable Port Charles teen Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), has just discovered that he is HIV positive. His illness will progress in what network press material describes as "real time" and will "not be rushed for the sake of accommodation...
...poses carefully, but manages to be convincing only as a particularly promiscuous fantasy lover with all the depth of a glistening Harlequin-novel cover man. His star-power and glamour nearly vanquish his acting skills in a throwback to his "21 Jump Street" days as a brooding teen heartthrob. The camera, too, is seduced, almost comically drawn ever-closer to his face, even when he tries to hide in the depths of his knit brows during particularly emotional moments...