Word: mcconaughey
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...without a factor that used to animate many of our best movies and many of our better moments in life: idealism. In this instance, it arises in the unlikely form of Jake Brigance, who is played by the suddenly and, on the basis of this performance, deservedly chic Matthew McConaughey. Brigance is a young and desperately unsuccessful lawyer, but he is all that Hailey can afford. Before the movie, based on John Grisham's first novel, is over, crosses will burn on the lawn and crucial witnesses will falter on the stand. Worse, Brigance's home will be destroyed...
Over the doubts of Warner Bros. and in a departure from the usual practice with John Grisham movies, director Joel Schumacher cast an unknown as the lead in A Time to Kill. But even before the first ticket has been sold, Matthew McConaughey has become Hollywood's newest golden boy and a familiar face to movie fans...
...McConaughey was the only actor that Schumacher and Grisham could agree on for the role. Still, Schumacher was worried that the film might founder on the tiny pebble of its star's anonymity. So he eliminated it. At Christmas he mentioned to his close pal Liz Smith that her fellow Texan was hot stuff. She duly noted it in her column. "I've never even met Matthew McConaughey," Smith admits. "But I trust what Joel tells me." Schumacher then hosted a screening of the unfinished film for New York City's media elite. Out of that came a Vanity Fair...
...under obituary, it should be noted that CAA still represents most of Hollywood's hardest-working filmmakers, including seriously surnamed stars Cruise, Hanks, De Niro, DeVito and Pacino. And the recent turmoil hasn't kept the agency from signing talent like Anthony Hopkins, Nick Nolte and hot newcomer Matthew McConaughey (the upcoming A Time to Kill) while forging multimedia ties with Intel and the creators of an innovative Internet Website known as The Spot...
...fret if you don't recognize all of the gentlemen photographed by Annie Leibovitz above. According to Vanity Fair, you will. Of all the young males walking around movie sets, the magazine thinks TIM ROTH, LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, BENICIO DEL TORO, MICHAEL RAPAPORT, STEPHEN DORFF, JOHNATHON SCHAECH, DAVID ARQUETTE, WILL SMITH and SKEET ULRICH will become the hot male stars of next year or so. Either that or these are the ones with the best publicists. And in case tomorrow's men aren't as interesting to you as yesterday's boys, photographer Herb Ritts gives JACKIE COOPER...