Cinema: The Class Of '98

First they took over your TV. Now they're clogging the 'plexes! It's the Invasion of the Teen Stars, and Hollywood moguls couldn't be happier

Katie Holmes flashes her luminous, kitten-on-a-pillow smile and says, "It's a wonderful thing to be 19 and in show business right now." Ain't it, though? Last year she and her mom made a video screen test in the rec room of their Toledo, Ohio, home and sent it to Kevin Williamson, the Scream screenwriter, who needed an ingenue for his new TV series, Dawson's Creek. "I thought it would be just a sweet attempt," he says, "but Katie was amazing. At first she couldn't come meet us because she was in a high school play. Finally she walked in, and she...

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