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...House Rules, and lest we forget, a secretive high school super-nerd in last year's blockbuster Spider-Man. But don't confuse him with any of those losers in real life. Offscreen, Maguire is as tough as nails, managing his resume as well as any other star in Hollywood. Look at the arc of his career. It's as perfect as the part in Peter Parker's hair. At 28, he has worked for a string of A-list directors that would make James Lipton weep, including Woody Allen, Ang Lee, Terry Gilliam and Curtis Hanson. How does...
Want a job that allows you to mingle with movie glitterati (without having to live among them) and show films in your own private theater? It may be too late. Washington institution Jack Valenti, who for 37 years has headed the Motion Picture Association of America, the Hollywood studios' lobbying group, is finally ready to retire, and sources tell TIME the choices to succeed him have been narrowed to two Louisianians. One whose name has been floated for months is Congressman Billy Tauzin, Republican chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Tauzin has strong backing from Disney, but that...
...screen. Blanchett does a wonderful job of paying homage to the woman behind the headlines - joyfully brandishing Guerin's signature brazenness and grounding her with tender vulnerability. And the melodrama is relatively restrained, considering the director is thrill seeker Joel Schumacher (Phone Booth) and the producer is Hollywood's explosives expert Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor). But as with so many films rooted in recent history, Veronica Guerin is already being accused of reshaping the truth for the sake of entertainment. "We expected it," Schumacher told TIME. "I've made movies before that have caused controversy and I think that...
...nothing else, the film's made-from-TV pedigree gives it a head start, since TV shows converted into full-length movie features are an increasingly well-worn path to celluloid riches. Unable to compete with Hollywood's expensive special-effects extravaganzas, traditional Japanese film studios have fallen by the wayside. In their place, the TV networks have become the nation's major film-production companies, churning out fast and cheap entertainment with actors, plot devices and production values borrowed from the small screen. Much of this is niche oriented, but the formula has also produced some widely popular hits...
...DIED. BUDDY EBSEN, 95, Hollywood hoofer who became the world's best-known yokel by playing the role of accidental oil tycoon Jed Clampett in the 1960s television series The Beverly Hillbillies; in Los Angeles. Ebsen started out as a lanky song-and-dance man, and partnered with Shirley Temple in the 1936 film Captain January. He almost played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, but left the film because he was allergic to the aluminum makeup used for the role. Ebsen later starred as a geriatric private investigator in TV's Barnaby Jones...