Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that kind of four-on-the-floor joyride, seemingly heedless of Hollywood story conventions as it spins from one attractive group of actors to the next. When Polley disappears after 40 minutes, you may feel no one can take her place; then Diggs (our choice for Afro-fab star of the future) assumes center screen and is just as beguiling. Wolf is delightfully disdainful of getting an ear kiss from the narc's free-love wife: "And that ear thing. I have Q-Tips, thank you." Olyphant is also an accomplished hunk. In fact, why not round up the entire...
...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. "Some teen movies really suck, while others are really good...
...SHOOK UP SUPPORT TEAM: The new Ovitzian model of Hollywood calls for dropping your agent in exchange for a manager. Stiles did the opposite. "Having a manager is sort of superfluous and redundant," she says. "My agent and publicist are doing a fine job, and I didn't feel like paying somebody else 10% to do nothing." Stiles' former manager refused comment, other than to say that he lined up her last three projects, including 10 Things...
...RIGHT MAGAZINES: Her inside pages for Harper's Bazaar, Interview and Vogue showed class, but Stiles admits that posing for the cover of Moxie Girl last year was cheesy. Swearing never to do another teenzine, she was featured on Vanity Fair's Hollywood-cover foldout between Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Polley...
...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...