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...Clint Eastwood, 75, #6 last year. Most recent on-screen role: Million Dollar Baby...
...Tied for 5. Julia Roberts, 39, #5 last year. Most recent on-screen role: Ocean's Twelve...
...Tied for 7. Mel Gibson, 51, #7 last year. Most recent on-screen role: The Singing Detective...
...On-screen smoking has been implicated as the cause of 390,000 new teen smokers every year," says Nita Maddox, AMA Alliance president. "It is estimated that 120,000 of this group of new teen smokers will eventually die from tobacco use." The Alliance is launching a parent-to-parent grassroots campaign to make future movies rated G, PG and PG-13 smoke-free - an effort that could reverberate in other foreign countries where U.S films dominate and where, Maddox says, "the tobacco industry is hunting its next generation...
...That's a 180 from the prevailing notion in classic Hollywood, where optimism was the cardinal belief, at least on-screen. (It was in the front office that the knives came out.) Most movies, whatever their genre, were romances; they aimed for tears and ended with a kiss. But to serious critics then, and to the mass audience now, sentiment is suspect. Feeling is mushy, girly - for fools. To be soft-hearted is to be soft-headed. So critics will see a horror film with extreme violence, or (less frequently) an erotic film with extreme sex, and accept these...