“I think you have to keep your distance from mainstream Hollywood in order to be a normal human being,” Sarah Polley [left] once commented. [imdb.com]
She continued, “I mean, I work there, and I like being there, but I love having an anonymous life. I think there’s definitely such a thing as being too famous.”
Many [...]

One of the pleasures of the tv series “Numb3rs” is a character [Amita Ramanujan - played by Navi Rawat] who is not only a math whiz, but a woman of exotic beauty, not the standard blonde [as appealing as many blonde actors may be].
Navi Rawat was born to a German mother and an Indian father, [...]

> excerpt from article: “This top grossing actor has strict code - Samuel Jackson sees his stardom as artistic capital, something he’s unwilling to have frittered away.” By Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, February 14, 2006
He is intensely disciplined and purposeful, a combination that has made him much in demand as an actor, though his [...]

“The film industry is very old fashioned in California. It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she’s lesbian.
“It’s very distressing to me that that should be the case. It’s not true of actors [...]

Commenting about her feelings this morning and her best-actress Oscar nomination for “Transamerica,” Felicity Huffman [left, as Bree in the film] said, “I woke up in fear and anxiety - which I know is the enemy of art, and in general.”
[CNN Showbiz Tonight Feb 13 2006]
Nicole Kidman admits, “Every time I star in a film, [...]