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Secrets in the burbs is a hoary theme, and Weeds begins unfortunately, with the suburbia-spoof folk classic Little Boxes ("... and they all look just the same") playing over the credits. Showtime likes to hammer viewers with its high concepts--The L Word, Fat Actress--and the note tied to this particular brick is, "This comedy will satirize the suburbs." But Weeds proves far more complex about Nancy and her neighbors. She's a criminal and a fiercely caring mom, a hypocrite with true morals. Even her superficial neighbor Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), who nicknames her chubby daughter "Isabelly," proves...
...says he has battled eating problems in real life, and perhaps as a result Starved treats Sam and his friends with sympathy but not sentimentality. They are people, not case studies. In the pilot, for instance, Sam dates a sweet girl whom he tricks into dressing like an actress from a cookie commercial. He does this, we see, because of deep body-image and intimacy issues (also because he's kind of a jerk...
...Billy Idol called?he wants his look back." JENNIFER ANISTON, actress, in her first interview since she and actor Brad Pitt split up, on her estranged husband's new hairdo
...that his fiancé "can have us both by her bedside at night," he says. After meeting White last November at a screening for the 30th anniversary of Chinatown, Evans married her last week in Mexico. "She's the only girl I've ever married who's not an actress or an aspiring actress, and you have no idea what a pleasure that is," says the man whose life story, including prior nuptials to starlets Ali MacGraw and Catherine Oxenberg, has inspired a film and a cartoon. "I wasn't impulsive this time," says Evans. "I waited over six months." Evans...
Interference was a given, with Miramax--Dimension Films' Bob and Harvey Weinstein backing Grimm. The Weinsteins overruled Gilliam's choice of Samantha Morton as the female lead (they wanted a more conventionally beautiful actress, and got one in Lena Headey). They fired cinematographer Nicola Pecorini after six weeks (he was shooting too slowly, they said) and nixed a silly nose Damon was to wear (Bob says, "It would be the most expensive nose job in history"). "I'm used to riding roughshod over studio executives," Gilliam says, "but the Weinsteins rode roughshod over me." To Bob, it was just business...