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Sunday, Aug. 03, 2003
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    First look

    Look closely at this picture. It shows something you have never seen before: Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman occupying the same piece of celluloid. Although the two wily veterans were roommates way back in their struggling-actor days, they have never shared the big screen. Runaway Jury, a legal thriller that opens Oct. 17, will be their first co-starring gig. "Gene's always had the ability to be extremely, almost criminally, honest and natural in his work," says Hoffman. Says Hackman: "Dustin takes big chances, a big bite out of something, which I love." Well, now he does. Probably it was different back when they shared a fridge.


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    It used to be that to make it in Hollywood you needed talent, a pretty face and a lot of luck. Now they'll give you a break on the talent part if you're willing to videotape yourself getting shot with a Taser. Case in point: prankster JOHNNY KNOXVILLE, of Jackass infamy, has no fewer than five movies in the works, and he just scored the lead in the upcoming Farrelly brothers' flick The Ringer, about a guy who pretends to be retarded so he can enter the Special Olympics. If that doesn't make you want to give up on Western culture, consider ASHTON KUTCHER, host of the MTV prank show Punk'd and Knoxville's heir aberrant. Not only is Kutcher a gossip-page staple thanks to his dalliance with Demi Moore, but he is also morphing into a legitimate thespian (stop that giggling!). He has half a dozen movies on the way, including The Woods, from Signs auteur M. Night Shyamalan. Rumors even have him starring in a big-screen remake of that other '70s show, The Dukes of Hazzard, with Britney Spears mentioned to fill the short-shorts of Daisy Duke. Dude, where's the General Lee?

    From Russia with Sex
    Let's be clear: Carrie Bradshaw, the character played by SARAH JESSICA PARKER on Sex and the City, is totally different from Candace Bushnell, who wrote the columns on which the show is based. There's no connection. None. So when Carrie needed a love interest for the show's final season, someone who could make fans forget about her enigmatic ex Mr. Big, it was just by chance that HBO tapped bedroom-eyed ballet dancer and international superhunk MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV. Never mind that Bushnell is married to Charles Askegard, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. It was all sheer coincidence. Or maybe it was those nice dancer's legs.

    They Met in the Movies; Will They Make It Last?
    Ben and Jen got jiggy on the set of Gigli, but will their romance last now that the credits have rolled? Onscreen passion doesn't always make for great marriages. Or great movies ...

    THE COUPLE Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon

    THE MOVIE Bull Durham, a baseball comedy so deft it manages to make even Kevin Costner hilarious

    THE MARRIAGE A home run. Although Robbins and Sarandon have never officially tied the knot, they have stayed together through 15 years (and two kids) and counting

    THE COUPLE Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman

    THE MOVIE Days of Thunder. Horrible: it's like a car crash, except you can look away

    THE MARRIAGE Mediocre, even by show-biz standards: they split after 11 years

    THE COUPLE Tom Green and Drew Barrymore

    THE MOVIE Charlie's Angels. High-quality popcorn

    THE MARRIAGE Barrymore may have been an Angel, but the six months the couple spent as man and wife seemed like an eternity in hell