Annette Bening

  • "Running With Scissors"

    Alec Baldwin just might break your heart in this sympathetic adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' bestselling memoir.
  • "Being Julia"

    Annette Bening plays a great actress in Istvan Szabo's resolute charmer -- and proves she is one, too.
  • The stars can't help it

    Gina Gershon wants to pull your chain. Plus: Billy Bob Thornton's strange compulsions; Chicago alderman's way is not Hugh Hefner's; and Monica Lewinsky and Jenny Craig, still an item?
  • Look out! Here comes a sound bite!

    Being at the Academy Awards has a strange effect on the attendees. Some are moved to eloquence, some to idiocy, while others become just plain insufferable.
  • Oscars 2000

    Untethered hooters! Suave cocksmiths! But even Billy Crystal and Hilary Swank couldn't save a crushingly boring show.
  • Mike Nichols, what planet are you from?

    In his latest dissection of the gender gap, the director of the great "Carnal Knowledge" trades earnest sexual consideration for a cheap, vibrating sight gag.
  • Warren Beatty

    The ambitious and radical star -- actor, producer, director -- crafted a remarkable and uncompromising slate of mainstream movies.
  • "What Planet Are You From?"

    It's a sad day for cinema when a vibrating penis upstages a perfectly good actress.
  • Annette Bening: Once you start having on-screen sex, it isn't embarrassing anymore

    The "American Beauty" star should share her on-screen sex tips with "The Sopranos'" Alicia Witt.
  • Courtesy flush, please!

    Extra! Extra! Put the seat down! Senate reporters forced to use coed loo; "American Pie" man Don McLean gets goopy over Madonna. Plus: The descent of man continues -- Carlos Santana announces his own clothing line.
  • "Beauty" pageant

    Oscar nominations for suburban satire and Denzel Washington; "Mr. Ripley" and Jim Carrey snubbed.
  • Madonna saves Gwyneth from evil drug doom!

    Ms. Ray of Light preaches to the lithe one; the rigors of stardom: Annette Bening threatens to do herself in if she has to act again; lessons on lesbian kissing from Sarah Michelle Gellar. Plus: Scary Spice resorts to the Ph-word!
  • Beautiful dreamer

    "End of the Affair" director Neil Jordan talks about sex, Catholicism and why "God is the greatest imaginary being of all time."
  • "American Beauty"

    Kevin Spacey keeps a biting suburban satire from eating itself alive.
  • My dinner with Bulworth

    The Minnesota adman who helped Jesse Ventura become governor advises Warren Beatty on how he might claim the White House.
  • In Dreams

    With echoes of 'The Silence of the Lambs,' 'Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'Psycho,' Neil Jordan's 'In Dreams' is less than the sum of its parts.

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