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How Winona Ryder overcame junior high school bullies, teenage rebellion, the controversy surrounding Heathers, overwhelming stardom, tabloid harassment, her breakup with Johnny Depp, suffocating mega-fame, wearing a corset, Gen X angst, the Hollywood machine, J.D. Salinger's cone of silence, the late '90s malaise, her fear of series television, and that time she got arrested and found a way to be free at last.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/24/09

Stephen Dorff has spent more than 20 years in Hollywood playing people on the fringe, including a mystical peacemaker, a transgender superstar, and even the fifth Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe. Now he’s ready to be front and center—just in time to take on the role of a burnt-out A-list actor in Sofia Coppola’s next project.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/27/09

Carlos Valencia's show of drawings at The Journal Gallery closed Sunday, but like many objects originating in the art world, it's preserved in fashion.  BLOG POSTED: 05/13/09

Seven years ago, he played James Dean in a television biopic, tinting his hair and squinting his eyes to Rebel Without a Cause-like perfection. Ever since, the temptation has been to peg him as a good-looking young man felled by the moody blues. while it's a fact of life that no one can ever really know what lies beneath the surface of another, the Internet can help narrow the field of possibilities. Lo and behold, Generalissimo James Edward Franco: a merry prankster, a slayer of hearts, a wooer of minds, and the latest onscreen love interest of Sean Penn.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/29/08

Harvey Milk certainly wasn't the first gay politician to win an election in the united states, but he might very well have been the loudest. With his latest film, Milk, director Gus Van Sant chronicles the unlikely rise and tragic fall of an American revolutionary.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/29/08

Harvey Milk certainly wasn't the first gay politician to win an election in the united states, but he might very well have been the loudest. With his latest film, Milk, director Gus Van Sant chronicles the unlikely rise and tragic fall of an American revolutionary.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

Seven years ago, he played James Dean in a television biopic, tinting his hair and squinting his eyes to Rebel Without a Cause-like perfection. Ever since, the temptation has been to peg him as a good-looking young man felled by the moody blues. while it's a fact of life that no one can ever really know what lies beneath the surface of another, the Internet can help narrow the field of possibilities. Lo and behold, Generalissimo James Edward Franco: a merry prankster, a slayer of hearts, a wooer of minds, and the latest onscreen love interest of Sean Penn.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/25/08