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...insisted that the sexual-assault charge he filed against Kobe Bryant had nothing to do with the celebrity of the Los Angeles Lakers' star. But from the beginning, legal experts wondered whether a Rocky Mountain lawman would have filed such a case had the defendant been anything other than Hollywood-famous...
Before you can teach a quarterback to run, you have to school him in the swagger. Lucky for ADAM SANDLER, who stars in next year's remake of 1974's football-in-prison film The Longest Yard, his coach is Hollywood's most beloved jock, BURT REYNOLDS. "What I told Adam is, 'Get a walk,'" says Reynolds, who played the QB inmate in the original. "A quarterback walk is like a cop walk, where you stride up there, and before you even tell the guy to roll the window down, he knows he's in deep trouble." With a cast...
...makers of Joey know TV series don't get on the air until months after taping. But why should Joey be any more realistic about life in Hollywood than Friends was about Manhattan real estate? This is one of many ways that Joey signals its determination to deliver what NBC desperately wants: familiar, Friends-style humor to kick off Thursdays at 8 p.m. E.T. exactly as we remember it--nothing less and nothing more...
...Nair, "energy and obsession" are everything. "I've always worked independently," she says. "Vanity Fair has a Hollywood budget, but it's completely an independent filmmaker's film." These days, she's regularly courted by Hollywood, but the turbulence of her career has taught Nair that her flavor-of-the-month status won't last. In any case, Mamdani says, that isn't the objective. Nair is "driven more by passion than ambition," he says. This has afforded her a rare artistic license in what is often a timidly conventional profession. "When I have passion for something," says Nair...
These are the premises of three recent movies, Girl on the Bridge, Man on the Train and Intimate Strangers, by the French director Patrice Leconte, and one feels obliged to advise Hollywood to beat a path to his door. The man invents better mousetraps than anyone in the American industry--entertaining and deadly little contraptions that are also slyly muted melodramas about the way apparent opposites do not so much attract as join forces to muddle through life's inevitable messiness...