A pneumatic blonde model and former Playboy playmate, Canadian-American actress Pamela Anderson (a.k.a. Pamela Anderson Lee and Pamela Lee) burst onto the scene in the early 1990’s and defied skeptics by staying there. As star of the international television phenomenon, “Baywatch” (Syndicated, 1989-2001), Anderson cemented her seamless transition from modeling into acting and Page Six [...]

South African actress Charlize Theron made Oscar and Golden Globe-worthy impressions with heavy-hitting dramatic roles which often saw her struggling to survive oppressive environments. Theron’s own experiences surviving the strife of an unstable childhood home gave her a strong perspective, as did the strong-willed independence that inspired her to head to Europe and begin a [...]

The career of this Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1982 indeed has consisted of many erotic or quickie action films often released direct-to-video. Nevertheless, the statuesque blonde former model has moved into more mainstream vehicles, particularly in the 1990s, even appearing on allegedly substantive TV series such as “Frasier” and “Wings”. A cool yet [...]

Grammy-winning recording artist and actor Justin Timberlake more or less grew up in the spotlight. Making his screen debut before he was even old enough to shave, Timberlake was a cast member of the early 1990’s revamp of “The Mickey Mouse Club (The Disney Channel, 1989-1994). His greatest claim to fame, however, was as the [...]

A pouty and pretty strawberry blonde New Yorker who commenced her career a child actor with instincts, skills and a streetwise grace that far outpaced her age, Scarlett Johansson first came to attention playing the daughter of Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw terrorized by Blair Underwood in “Just Cause” (1995). Having made her stage debut [...]

Exceptionally bright, outspoken, and controversial both onscreen and off, Golden Globe-winning actress Sharon Stone weathered career ups and downs, but always emerged as master of her own iconic image. With a flair for self-invention and a full embrace of the old Hollywood notion of creating a larger than life persona, Stone was a journalist’s dream [...]

Although he had wanted to be an actor for as long as he could remember, Daniel Radcliffe had to convince his parents to allow him to pursue his dream. The schoolboy had been encouraged to try out for a 1999 British TV version of Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” but his mother and father opposed the [...]

Once a pretty, sultry teenage model with a slightly subdued, aloof quality, Moore evolved into one of the top female screen stars of the 1990s. She began as a regular on ABC’s staple of daytime drama, “General Hospital”; her husky voice and hushed line delivery seemed to lend itself well to the tense plots. Moore [...]

When actress Tammy Blanchard landed the lead role of the young Judy Garland in the popular 2001 ABC miniseries “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows”, it seemed almost pre-ordained. One of the first roles the Bayonne, New Jersey native had ever played with Dorothy in a grade school production of “The Wizard of [...]

Perhaps the western world’s most famous living filmmaker, Steven Spielberg succeeded in combining the intimacy of a personal vision with the epic requirements of the modern commercial blockbuster. Though his astonishing success delayed his acceptance as a serious artist for many years, few could deny that Spielberg’s work decisively influenced twentieth century filmmaking through his [...]