In her latest film, On My Way, which opened this week, French screen icon Catherine Deneuve plays a character not at all like herself. Her Bettie, a former beauty queen and failing restaurateur recently jilted by her married lover, is a woman riddled with regrets and running out ... More

Inside the volcano Jennifer Connelly was about to learn the truth. The actress was in Iceland, taking a break from filming the biblical-disaster epic Noah, when she and her family decided to visit one of the island nation's famous lava pits. It seemed, as so many things do, like a ... More

It’s only 10 to nine in midtown Manhattan when model Anne Vyalitsyna comes bouncing into DuJour’s office, beautifully bright-eyed and incredibly friendly, even saying a sweet hello to those non-morning people hunched over and frowning at their desks. “Let’s get started!” she exclaims, arms raised high in a silk black ... More

Jonathan Freeman’s been a villain for 22 years, and this month he’s getting a new outlet for his evil. The actor, who’s best known as the voice of the sinister Jafar in Disney’s Aladdin—as well as a series of TV shows, video games and sequels that have kept the story ... More

Before he took up acting, Ben Lloyd-Hughes wanted to be a barrister. “I like standing up for the little man,” the 25-year-old British actor says, “and trying to fight for the truth.” It was only after he discovered practicing law wasn’t what he expected—“maybe what I was attracted to was ... More

In Stage Kiss, the new show from playwright Sarah Ruhl—now playing at Playwright’s Horizons in New York—an actress is unexpectedly reunited with an old flame when they’re cast as, well, old flames and forced to lock lips repeatedly during a tumultuous run in New Haven. It’s the kind ... More

“If you walk outside your office for three blocks, you’ll pass at least 70 Vikings.” That was the pitch that award-winning writer Michael Hirst made to the History Channel—and it worked. Executives took the chance that a dramatic series on the lives of people who fought and loved more than ... More

It’s no easy task to turn a man against his family, friends and country, but in Bethlehem, the debut film from director Yuval Adler (opening February 21) that’s precisely what happens. The film—Israel’s entry for this year’s Foreign Language Oscar—follows secret service agent Razi as he develops ... More

First there was the book, and then there was the movie and now, 22 years after the story first made waves, The Bridges of Madison County has been given another life, this time as a Broadway musical. The story’s got all the trappings of a great on-stage love ... More

While director Sean Hartofilis’ Beach Pillows did most of its filming on Long Island—where this photo was shot—plenty of off-camera antics took place at a small apartment in Manhattan’s East Village. “Vincent Kartheiser and I ended up living together in a small apartment in the East Village,” Geoffrey Arend, the ... More