Luke Grimes
November 26, 2008
Twenty-four-year-old actor Luke Grimes grew up believing in God and Bruce Willis. Eventually his faith in both changed.
Jennifer Lawrence
November 26, 2008
Unlike many indie starlets who come to the screen after a few stints in life’s darker corners, 18-year-old Jennifer Lawrence has never hit rock bottom.
MGMT
November 25, 2008
MGMT If any band owns 2008, it’s the psychedelic, scruffy-haired duo who dresses like hippies, sings about drugs and models, and opened for Radiohead. They already sound like rock stars, but they still feel like kids.
Anna Paquin
November 25, 2008
Her biggest TV moment to date was winning an Oscar at age 11. Now she’s back in prime time—a lot more grown up and hanging out with the undead.
Pharrell Williams Nominates Chester French
November 24, 2008
“Harvard grads. Musical savants. Brian Wilson meets Motown with guitars.” That’s perennial hitmaker Pharrell Williams’s take on Chester French, the unlikely duo of pop whiz kids that he recently signed to his label, Star Trak.
Mia Wasikowska
November 24, 2008
Mia Wasikowska has faced unspeakable tragedies. Fortunately for the 17-year-old Aussie actress, who is being likened to a young Jodie Foster, it’s all taking place onscreen.
Robert Pattinson
November 24, 2008
A former child model-he posed professionally from ages 12 to 15 (“when I stopped looking like a girl”)-Pattinson has been dubbed “the next Jude Law” in the British press. “I don’t really see the similarity,” he says. One opportunity to break out comes via next year’s Little Ashes, a Spanish drama in which Pattinson stars as the young Salvador Dalí.
The Enemy UK
November 21, 2008
In 2006, a pair of English teens working as minimum-wage television salesmen ended a nightly trip to the pub with a promise: They would do something different. Turns out it wasn’t just drunken babble.
Al Pacino Nominates Jack Huston
November 20, 2008
“I worked with Jack on an indie film I’ve been directing,” says Al Pacino of 25-year-old actor Jack Huston, who stars in Salomaybe?, Pacino’s unconventional adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s notorious play Salome.