Word: swank
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...HILARY SWANK was in Beverly Hills 90210 with Tori Spelling who was in House of Yes with Parker Posey who was in Basquiat with Courtney Love who was in Man in the Moon with...
...hobby has become equally hot among the on-the-set set. Hilary Swank of Boys Don't Cry chatted with Jay Leno about her passion for the craft, joining the celebrity knitting circle that includes Julia Roberts, Winona Ryder and, yes, Monica Lewinsky...
...success in Hollywood can be fickle, so Swank has hired a team to help her climb through the window of opportunity that Boys has opened. A publicist (cost: around $2,500 a month) was brought in to build Oscar buzz. A new stylist (paid per event) is helping her glam up. "It's so weird. I get calls from designers: 'We'll send a look book. Just tell us what you want,'" says Swank, whose current taste for Valentino should avert barbs from E! channel fashionista Joan Rivers. And the agent who negotiated the deal for Boys...
...every studio, as well as Robert De Niro and director Michael Bay. Last week she met Ridley Scott, who's scouting a female lead for Hannibal now that Jodie Foster has declined to reprise her Silence of the Lambs role. "I haven't sat with [Martin] Scorsese yet," says Swank, who's angling for a part in his Gangs of New York opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, though she hears Cameron Diaz has an inside track. "That will be my truly impressive meeting...
...been a 10-year wait for this overnight success. After moving as a teenager from Bellingham, Wash., to Los Angeles with her mom, Swank was a guest on the sitcoms Growing Pains and Evening Shade before playing the best friend in the original, 1992 movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In 1998, after a bad run of TV movies and short-lived series, she auditioned for the role that turned her career around. Director Kimberly Peirce tested "every butch lesbian and transsexual out there" for Brandon before watching a tape from Swank. "She was beautifully androgynous...