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Start this story where it ends: on a drizzly night in Los Angeles, Neve Campbell's car is running out of gas. You've been at a coffee bar with the rising young actress, and afterward she takes you for a spin in her dark-green Porsche and then offers to drive you to your hotel. The needle on the gas meter is on the running-on-fumes side of EMPTY, and there's even an exclamation mark shining crimson on the dashboard. But Campbell, preternaturally polite, continues blithe small talk. "Is that band the Cult still together?" she asks...
...Scream 2, despite being pursued by psychos and serial killers, she exudes likability and warmth. And in her newest film, the sweaty, hormonal romp Wild Things, Campbell glistens with sincerity, even as her character is swept up in an unlikely swirl of perjury, murder and three-way sex. "[Neve] makes you care and empathize with her," says Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax, the studio behind the Scream films. Says Peter Roth, president of the Fox Entertainment Group: "She's beautiful but accessible. You feel she could be your friend...
Everybody wants to be Neve's friend these days. She's one of the recent crush of young actors whom Hollywood powerbrokers are starting to bank on to bring a new generation of fans into movie theaters. Her rise has been rocket-fueled. She was born and raised in Guelph, Ont. Her father, a high school drama teacher, and her mother, who ran a dinner theater, divorced when Neve was young. At age 9 she joined the National Ballet School of Canada; at 14 she dropped out of school to join the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera...
...chapter. As presented by Keyser and Lippman, though, the relentless suffering is positively enjoyable. That is so partly because Party of Five offers the guilty pleasure of watching other people's troubles, but the show is much finer than any soap. When the competence of Julia (played by Neve Campbell with sensuous innocence and gravity) wounds her ineffectual husband, the moments are pointed and true. Keyser and Lippman produce a discerning weeper, and it has found a large, passionate audience...
Scream and Scream 2 may be raking in the bucks, but that doesn't mean the franchise is making BOB and HARVEY WEINSTEIN happy. First Disney executives chastised the Miramax co-chairmen for overstating Scream 2's opening grosses; now actress NEVE CAMPBELL may not star in Scream 3. Why? Just before Scream 2 opened, Campbell, 24, expressed interest in acting in another Miramax film--Rounders, by The Last Seduction director JOHN DAHL, which was scheduled to go into production before the holidays. Miramax said she could appear in Rounders only if she would commit to Scream 3, and offered...