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...sort of cool elder sister for the new group of Hollywood teens. With a stream of increasingly grownup movie parts, she's not a bad role model. After a 1996 cameo in Scream and a perky co-starring role in The Wedding Singer, she stars in Ever After, a sweet feminist remake of Cinderella that opens this weekend, and plays a pregnant fast-food clerk in the quirky black comedy Home Fries, coming later this year. She makes a reported $3 million a picture, has her own production deal at Fox, and is being courted for dramatic roles, including...
...though? Last year she and her mom made a video screen test in the rec room of their Toledo, Ohio, home and sent it to Kevin Williamson, the Scream screenwriter, who needed an ingenue for his new TV series, Dawson's Creek. "I thought it would be just a sweet attempt," he says, "but Katie was amazing. At first she couldn't come meet us because she was in a high school play. Finally she walked in, and she was exactly what I had envisioned for the role...
...FIRE ME--I'M BACK!" Sweet-'n'-sour talk-show host Charles Grodin, dropped from the CNBC lineup on June 4, was added to the MSNBC weekend schedule on July 14. "When was the last time somebody was fired and hired by the same place?" he asked. Sorry, Chuck--it happens all the time...
What really supports this film is its strong cast. As usual, Pesci turns in a maniacally fine performance, adding a sentimental riff here and there. Russo, looking remarkably unpregnant for someone who gives birth at the end of the movie, is sweet. Jet Li is magnificently creepy as a strong-and-silent, impeccably elegant villain. Alone among the principal supporting actors, Chris Rock, normally so funny, fails to fit his role as Murtaugh's young cop son-in-law. His edgy, larger than life comic persona makes Rock look like he is intruding on someone else's shtick...
Well, you can see how reluctant I am to say home sweet home...