Here a Love, There a Love, Everywhere a Love....

Both Pics Courtesy of
David Mauerman

by Elizabeth Snead

Cardiac Arrest
Jennifer Love Hewitt is a certified heart-stopper at the L.A. premiere of Heartbreakers in her little black rhinestone promo tee and sexy slim pants. But she needs some fashion CPR for that clip-on ponytail and solo rhinestone drop earring--stat!

From: Jim Mix of My Love Hewitt
To: E! Fashion Police

Why don't you all have a heart attack and die

Copyright © 2001 E!Online/Paul Smith. All rights reserved.

WEBSITE DETAILS STARS' SKIN PROBLEM

By Randy Dotinga

FRIDAY, March 23 (HealthScout) -- When the Academy Awards ceremony is broadcast Sunday, a San Francisco dermatologist will be more interested in scars than Oscars. He'll also be on the lookout for rashes, pimples, birthmarks and moles.

But Dr. Vail Reese isn't prowling for new celebrity patients. He just wants to expand skinema.com, a Web site that spotlights the skin conditions that plague the beautiful people of Hollywood.

While celebrities often make no secret of their emotional scars, plenty are also physically scarred. The faces of Elizabeth Hurley and Brad Pitt show evidence of their struggles with acne, while Elizabeth Taylor and Catherine Zeta-Jones have tracheotomy scars on their necks.

When she isn't experimenting with unique hair gels in "There's Something About Mary," Cameron Diaz appears to suffer from a difficult-to-cure skin condition called rosacea. Heartthrob Richard Gere has a large and noticeable birthmark. And then there's Mark Wahlberg, of "Boogie Nights" and "A Perfect Storm," who seems to have an extra nipple.

Photos of all these actors and actresses appear on Reese's Web site, along with dozens more, from Matt Damon (a galaxy of potentially hazardous moles) to Jennifer Love Hewitt and Leonardo DiCaprio (chicken pox scars).

While he often makes cheeky comments about the stars and their careers, the 36-year-old Reese says the goal of his site is serious. He wants to educate people about skin disease and dermatology, a field of medicine not always well understood by the public.

"What I'm really trying to do is have some fun, interject some humor and make it as entertaining as possible so people will learn without feeling like they're learning," he says.

Reese diagnoses the skin disorders he sees on the big screen and offers details about treatments.

Reese created his Web site about five years ago: "Several years ago, it came to me how you can see skin conditions in movies. Nobody had ever really looked at movies this way as far as I could tell, but it seemed like such a natural thing."

Now, as many as 100,000 people visit skinema.com each month. Reese usually updates the site once a week. While he rarely focuses on television, a recent addition is an entire section on "Survivor II," the CBS reality show that is a virtual bonanza of skin disorders, from big moles to receding hairlines.

"When one fellow (Nick) has a large birthmark on his shoulder and a woman (Alicia) shows up with a cold sore, I can't look away," he explains.

Then came the most gripping moment of "Survivor II" so far, when a castaway fell into a fire and suffered third-degree burns to his hands. After explaining burn treatments, Reese wrote: "We're hoping this is the most significant skin problem the show will ever feature."

No Hollywood stars have ever contacted Reese about their write-ups on his site.

"That makes sense to me," he says. "A lot of these celebrities have other things to worry about, and most of the things you see on my Web site don't have stigma -- beauty marks and small scars and birthmarks."

Some of the celebrities have more serious problems, such as acne, but the photos on the site are all in the public domain, he says: "It's nothing that someone can't see."

In Los Angeles, home to many of the nation's most vain people, one dermatologist gave a rave review of skinema.com.

"It's pretty clever," says Dr. Susan Goodlerner, a professor at UCLA. "Obviously he's someone who understands skin and skin disorders."

She adds that the site will educate people who think Hollywood stars all have beautiful bodies.

"Seeing that certain actors may have imperfect skin or scars is reassuring to the average person," she says. "There's a myth about having perfect skin. There's not too much perfection in the human race."

What To Do

You can visit skinema.com.

Copyright © 2001 Health Scout. All rights reserved.

SONY'S "THE BROTHERS", MGM'S "HEARTBREAKERS"
AND 20TH CENTURY FOX'S "SAY IT ISN'T SO"

They say as follow....   "Three is the loneliest number at the boxoffice this weekend.   Three features open in wide release today:

Given prevailing marketplace sentiment toward the trio, this will be the third consecutive three-day session in which sales fail to match last year's levels.   The new movies simply are not generating sufficient prerelease momentum to inspire optimism. "Brothers" is probably the most promising as it will play younger than the other two and has a black-audience component the others lack.  

"Heartbreakers" has developed a fairly firm following among women of all ages, while "Say" will be met with a resounding nay. That the televised college basketball playoffs are embroiled in the final phase known as the "Sweet 16" is another negative, particularly for "Brothers."  

"Heartbreakers" will be hurt on Sunday by the Academy Awards telecast, which will distract the older segment of its female fans."

In my opinion of this story......I summit up in three letters, "LOL!"

Copyright © 2001 The Hollywood Reporter. All rights reserved.

See what the critics are saying about Heartbreakers

DISPELLING SOME MYTHS FROM THE SWEET 16

By Mike DeCourcy

Souring some myths from the Sweet 16:

Number 4. The quickest shortcut to the Sweet 16 is hiring a "big-name" coach. Wrong.

Wisconsin abandons a course that provided the Badgers with first-division finishes and NCAA Tournament appearances. South Carolina treads water chasing coaches who hold better jobs than the one being offered. UNLV gambles on a name it can throw on the Thomas & Mack marquee. Rhode Island plays so far out of its league it might as well dial......

Jennifer Love Hewitt

.......and ask for a date.

Copyright © 2001 The Sporting News. All rights reserved.

Q&A WITH RAY LIOTTA

By LIZ BRAUN

Ray Liotta stars in Heartbreakers, which also features Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt as a mother-daughter grifter team. Liotta plays a chop shop owner from Jersey and is one of the men who gets conned.

THE SUN: Weren't you going to be on The Sopranos?

RAY: "They offered me a part to do for two years."

THE SUN: You didn't want to commit to that?

RAY: "You know, not for nothin', but after Goodfellas, The Sopranos is ... well, I wouldn't mind doing a guest shot. I'd have had to lose out to Tony Soprano, and my ego is too big. The Sopranos is a good show. Again, Goodfellas was the same sort of thing, realistic, street level. But after Goodfellas ... "

THE SUN: You were there first?

RAY: "Yeah. And better. I'm kidding. You're writing that down?!!"

THE SUN: Okay, Heartbreakers -- was it fun doing comedy for a change?

RAY: "Not as much fun as doing The Muppets. It was fun to work and not have to work myself up to beating anybody up or choking anyone."

THE SUN: In fact, you get tied up in this one. Was that fun?

RAY: "Totally. Don't you like it? Come on! This is one of the few movies where I'm really the moral centre. And I'm not always bad. In Field Of Dreams, I didn't hit Kevin with a bat."  

THE SUN: What do you think of the costumes in Heartbreakers?

RAY: "Well, how about Jennifer in those outfits? Jeez Louise."

THE SUN: She looks so tiny on the screen. Is she a midget, or what?

RAY: "Yeah, she's small, she's tiny, but, (holds up cupped hands to indicate breasts) she's packin'."

THE SUN: What was it like shooting that scene where her hair is caught in your fly?

RAY: "Great! What's not to like? I'm a faithful married guy, so any chance you get to have some fun like that, you take advantage of it! "A lot of movies I do, it's heavy stuff. I'm always the maniac. Sometimes at seven o'clock in the morning you just ain't in the mood to beat somebody up."

Copyright © 2001 The Toronto Sun. All rights reserved.

Wednesday marked MGM's time to shine at ShoWest, as the studio unveiled its slate of promising pics for theater owners. One distributor called MGM's product reel "impressive and a nice mixture of genres from comedy to war movies."

Among the highlights:

• The studio screened Heartbreakers, a lighthearted chick flick starring Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt as a mother/daughter con team, hitting theaters March 23. The film received polite applause from the delegates, but others went so far as to call it "fabulous." Another noted, "The word of mouth should be great."

  The quote of the day, however, came from an MGM rep, who stood up and proudly announced "we're pleased because 75 percent of screening audiences said they thought it was better than they expected." (Hooray for low expectations!)

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