Bridgette Wilson

Back in 1999, Pete Sampras appeared on "60 Minutes." Charlie Rose posed a somewhat leading question that could've made Sampras uncomfortable. Instead, the tennis great just smiled. "So when you read, 'he's boring,' you say," Rose prompted. "I'm not,"...

"Shopgirl" is like "Pygmalion" for the upper-middle-brow business class flier. Which isn't to say it's bad. On the contrary, it's smart, spare, elegant and understated. Especially the sex scenes, in which Claire Danes poses like an Ingres Odalisque in...

Fresh off a run on "Battlestar Galactica," Lucy Lawless is headed to ABC and its drama "Football Wives." Lawless is one of several actors joining ABC pilots, the showbiz trade papers report. "CSI's" Louise Lombard has landed the title role in "Judy's Got...

Friday February 27, 1998      Flash! The fashion industry is a skin-deep, sexist, reality-distorting business that perpetuates false expectations among men and objectifies women. This just in, too: Television soap operas are facile melodramas...

Friday October 29, 1999      Call it, if you want, "That Thing You Do: The Sequel." Except that, unlike that underrated Tom Hanks project from 1996 about one-hit wonders from the 1960s, "The Suburbans" gets its title from the name of an imaginary "fab...

Friday September 10, 1999      Look, I'm as tired as you are of lame wish-fulfillment fairy tales being passed off as romantic comedies. I could use a stiff chaser of pure, uncut ribaldry as an antidote to the sappy "Runaway Brides" and "Sleepless in...

Friday January 26, 2001      Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey have great chemistry in "The Wedding Planner," but their megawatt star power is short-circuited by the movie's lack of energy and crackling dialogue. Their charisma will likely be enough...

There had to be a way to finish this electric night with grace and elegance, a charming touch that wasn't some forced gesture. Surely there was something to punctuate this celebration of Pete Sampras' marvelous career, a pitch-perfect memory to be...

Saturday February 11, 1995      "Billy Madison" looks as if it were made to fill the void left by Pee-wee Herman. We never needed Pee-wee more.      Adam Sandler plays Billy Madison, a spoiled rich nudnik who stands to inherit the family business from...

Friday November 1, 1996      Gena Rowlands glows in her son Nick Cassavetes' endearing "Unhook the Stars" as a woman coming to the realization that she's reaching a crossroads in her life. A beautiful, wise, 60ish widow, Rowlands' Mildred has stayed on...