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Madeleine Stowe: Impostor Bride

Talk about attention-grabbing! As a married couple in Impostor, Madeleine Stowe and Gary Sinise forget foreplay and cut right to the passion, making steamy love in the sci-fi thriller's opening credits. Says Stowe: "We wanted to show that the two of us are not only married, we're very deeply in love." And how! While Stowe doesn't get much screen time, her role is crucial to Impostor's surprise ending, which she admits "was a total shock. I was reading the script and I didn't see it coming." What she also didn't see coming was the struggle she'd face while shooting A&#38E's upcoming The Magnificent Ambersons. Feisty director Alfonso Arau (

Mon, Jan 7, 2002

Tom Cruise on That Other Cruz

At the Manhattan press junket for Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's new romantic thriller (opening Dec. 14), Pen&#233lope Cruz was chatting up a room full of reporters when Tom Cruise appeared in the doorway calling, 'Hola, Hola!' Cruz then gasped, jumped from her seat and bolted from the room to follow her beau down the hall. She sheepishly returned moments later to apologize for exiting without a good-bye. Apparently, such is the whimsical real life/reel life romance of the handsome Vanilla stars. But contrary to widely-circulated rumors, Cruise insists they didn't become intimately involved during the film's production. Says he: "I wasn't falling in

Wed, Dec 5, 2001

Sarandon Sudses It Up on Friends

From the soaps she came, and to it Susan Sarandon shall return. Well, sort of. The actress, who had early gigs on Search for Tomorrow and A World Apart back in the '70s, will only be a fictitious soap star this time around. On tonight's Friends, she portrays Cecilia Monroe, a catty castmate scorned by Joey (Matt LeBlanc) when he reprises his role as Drake Ramoray on Days of Our Lives. "Joey gets my brain in a brain transplant," Sarandon previews. "It's one of those preposterous soap-opera inventions. [Though] I guess it would be more preposterous if Joey was donating his brain for the brain transplant." Despite having made guest appearances on other primetime shows like The Simpsons and Mad TV, Sarandon readily admits she's no great lover of the tube. "We have a sticker on one of our station wagons that says, 'Kill your television sets,' so we're very picky in terms of h

Thu, Feb 15, 2001

Survivor Goes Hollywood

Whoopi Goldberg made a shocking confession to Survivor winner Richard Hatch during a taping of Hollywood Squares. "I have to admit I didn't see a single episode of Survivor," she told the notorious nudist. "I did catch snatches of the show here and there, and Richard, in your case, I caught more than a snatch." Backstage, Hatch  who joined fellow contestants Jenna Lewis, Gervase Peterson, and Susan Hawk for a special Survivor-themed Squares (airing this week)  maintains that he's unfazed by his newfound celebrity. On meeting Goldberg: "She's just another person." On just receiving his million dollar prize money: "I'm financially stable, and there isn't anything I need to go out and get." And on the constant ribbing he gets: "I couldn't care less. So what? I'm a fat naked gay guy. Actually, I'm not as fat anymore, but I'm still the naked gay guy." Hatch may be blas&eacute; about all the

Mon, Sep 25, 2000

Whelchel Reveals Facts Facts

Former Facts of Life star Lisa Whelchel is happy to report that her role as snobby Blair Warner won't change much in an upcoming TV reunion movie based on the popular '80s sitcom. "I met with the writer and she wanted Blair to have grown up and matured and to have found herself and discovered all kinds of things," she tells TV Guide Online. "I said, 'Oh no, please don't make me do that. Let her be as lame and shallow as she ever was. It's a lot more fun.' So Blair will be back as we all knew her." Whelchel reports that not everyone is on board for the nostalgia trip. Nancy McKeon's tough girl character, Jo Polniaczek, one of Blair's classmates at the prestigious Eastland Academy, most likely won't be dropping in. "Nancy has a new series [City Lights] on Lifetime playing a female cop and I think she's trying to kind of distance herself from the Jo character just so people can see her in a new role," explains Whelchel. "There was a rumor that Nancy wou

Tue, Sep 19, 2000

Bacon's Vanishing Act

Kevin Bacon won the title role in the new film Hollow Man for one very good reason: He's not a big ol' jerk. The film's director, Paul Verhoeven, reveals that he could have had his pick of A-list celebs (reportedly including John Travolta), but went with the Footloose actor because of his easygoing reputation. "I knew that the actor playing Hollow Man, who becomes invisible, was going to have to endure a lot with all the special-effects makeup," Verhoeven tells TV Guide Online. "I didn't want an actor who would be complaining about how difficult it was." Well, Bacon ? who appears in the flesh for only 20 minutes of the film ? may have been well-behaved while the cameras were rolling, but he now admits the process was a bit of a chore. "I won't say it wasn't tough," sighs the 42-year-old. "First they had to acquire a tremendous amount of information about my face and my body... all of my dimensions ? and I mean all ? were calculated.

Thu, Aug 3, 2000

Squeals and Sequels Backstage at the MTV Movie Awards

Hollywood's sexiest young actors are in love and wanted everyone to know at MTV's Movie Awards, held last Saturday and airing Thursday. Katie Holmes and her American Pie hunk Chris Klein did a lot of hand-holding, waist-holding and, well, other body part-holding. Tara Reid, also of American Pie, accompanied MTV's Carson Daly; he wore his classic black suit while she wore a very revealing black pantsuit with a wide-open front. But the award for couple of the evening went to Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. Gellar may have won two containers of gilded popcorn but her favorite prize was stealing kisses from her Prinze. "When we were coming in there was this one girl I saw out of the corner of my eye who had this Freddie Prinze poster and all these pictures of every movie he's ever done," Gellar says. "And I'm hitting him, going, 'Look over there.' And she was crying and [it] was breaking my heart. And I thoug

Wed, Jun 7, 2000