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Among the news stories covered in the Feb. 4, 2002, issue of TIME are the Winter Olympics, George Bush's approval rating, mammograms and the actress Jennifer Garner...
...curse to be beautiful? Tell that to the 6 billion people who aren't. Halle Berry--Miss Teen All-American, runner-up Miss USA and by acclamation one of the world's prime ravishers--is a gifted actress too. She has lent boldness and tact to Jungle Fever, Losing Isaiah and Bulworth; she has captivated TV viewers as Dorothy Dandridge and Alex Haley's Queen. All this hints at some divine conspiracy--or at least a case of unfair genetic competition. A glamour monopoly...
...movie is about the redemption of a racist--though some may ask how many prejudicial scruples a man would have to overcome to persuade himself to have sex with Halle Berry. The actress, who had previously flashed her bosom in Swordfish, once had scruples of her own about going buffo. "If a movie script had nudity in it," she says, "I wouldn't even finish reading it. But I've become a woman who's a bit more secure and willing to free herself of her inhibitions for her art." Thus the startling, dramatically expressive love scene in Monster...
Jennifer Connelly describes the woman she plays in A Beautiful Mind--Alicia, the wife of the brilliant, mad mathematician John Nash--as "forthright, gutsy, irreverent, a bit of a black sheep." Those qualities are certainly present in Connelly's luminous performance, but perhaps out of modesty, the actress doesn't mention her own shining, salient characteristic, which is intelligence of a particularly watchful kind...
...part of their culture for a long time. I was promoting Iron Monkey with director Quentin Tarantino and one day he took me back to his house, sat me down and described in detail an action film that he wants to make in Hong Kong and Japan. The actress Uma Thurman will play the lead. Is this merely a fetish? No, I don't think...