Julia Roberts: You've just won an Academy Award for your gutsy performance as the title crusader in Erin Brockovich — now what are you going to do? No, she's not headed to Disney World, silly. She's going to the press room to answer questions from hundreds of anxious reporters from around the world. And she wasn't alone. Here is TV Guide Online's who's who of who said what mere moments — or in Russell Crowe's case, many, many moments — after striking gold.
Pollock's supporting actress winner Marcia Gay Harden revealed that her nominated leading man (and Pollock director), Ed Harris, had tried to prepare her for the agony of defeat. "A couple days ago, he said, 'Just practice saying, And the winner is... everyone else's name, and you'll be fine.' [So] when [I heard] my name, all I could think was, 'Oh my gosh.'" Overwhelmed, Harden — who told TV Guide Online that she had just signed to
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These days, Jon Bon Jovi is hardly livin' on a prayer. He's got a new movie, Pay It Forward with Kevin Spacey, due in theaters Oct. 20, and his band's first album in five years, Crush, has spawned the hit single "It's My Life." The song's video recently cracked MTV's viewer-voted countdown Total Request Live, a playground usually reserved for such kiddie pop stars as Britney and 'N Sync.
"Not bad for an old man, huh?" laughs Bon Jovi, 38. "Especially one that doesn't dance or sing to tape." All joking aside, the veteran rocker isn't quick to write off teen acts: "Will any of those guys be around [in] ten years? Who knows? But once upon a time, people thought we were a fluke, too."
Indeed, despite changing musical tastes, the band Bon Jovi has remained wanted, dead or alive, long after many of its fellow '80s acts became punchlines (remember Warrant?). Bon Jovi thinks he knows why. "One thing we learned after the
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