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...Enter Julia Roberts, bearing an Oscar. In this free-market free-for-all, she epitomizes the paradox of being the best. Is Roberts the best American actress? That little statue is a sign that she can sometimes be a screen presence to reckon with, but in any ballot of the most accomplished performers, she would meet heavy competition from Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Julianne Moore and Kathy Bates, to name a few. But Best Movie Star? No contest. And that's because she is the biggest female box-office draw, even in films that are often of so-so quality...
...would Julia Roberts believe in regret? For the gods have not only blessed her with a $20 million smile, they've been smiling on her ever since 1985, when she graduated from high school in Smyrna, Ga., and headed to New York City to be with her big sister Lisa. "The whole point of me moving was to reunite with her," says Roberts. Acting was an afterthought--"something that I could attempt to do in New York"--but fate saw her coming. On the count of three--Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman--Roberts was a star...
...Julia Roberts is America's Best movie star not because she is good in good movies--heck, Tom Hanks can do that--but because she is so popular in mediocre ones. Her every-award-winning role in Erin Brockovich was an aberration. Roberts typically fronts airy romantic comedies or treacly melodramas that might go direct to video if she weren't in them. And still they are hits. People go to see Roberts despite her films, happy to pay for the privilege of being in her virtual presence. They want what she's got--what, seemingly, she is. No matter...
...rock stars?salesmen, by example, of countless beguiling or corrosive fashions. If they could make cocaine and tattoos fashionable, perhaps they could goad the masses toward physical and spiritual enlightenment. Today yoga is practiced by so many stars with whom audiences are on a first-name basis?Madonna, Julia, Meg, Ricky, Michelle, Gwyneth, Sting?that it would be shorter work to list the actors who don't assume the asana. (James Gandolfini? We're just guessing...
...David Duchovny practices Kundalini yoga; Julia Louis-Dreyfuss prefers Ashtanga. Sabrina the Teenage Witch stars Melissa Joan Hart and Soleil Moon Frye throw yoga parties. Jane Fonda cut out aerobics for it; Angelina Jolie buffed up for Tomb Raider with it. The newly clean Charlie Sheen used yoga and dieting to shed 14 kg. Add at least two Sex in the City vamps, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis. All three Dixie Chicks. Sports stars from basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Yankee pitcher Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez are devotees. And speaking of athletes, who showed up recently at Turlington...