No longer on most studio A-lists following the disappointing box office performances of Men Don't Leave and Music Box, 42-year-old Jessica Lange is coming to terms with the harsh realities of Hollywood. "There's a whole other generation of actresses coming up who are obviously going to be the ones who are thought of first for a lot of roles," says Lange (still an item with playwright-actor Sam Shepard) in an interview on Crazy About the Movies, a Cinemax special airing this week. "I mean, and it's so quixotic. After Frances and Tootsie, suddenly they would have given me anything. That's how I got Country made. I couldn't do that now. I'm more constricted now. But then ultimately, I don't really care."
A SEPARATE PEACE
Rapper Mark Wahlberg, the 20-year-old brother of Donnie Wahlberg, isn't a chip off the old New Kids on the Block. "I was one of the original members of that group when I was 13," says Mark, whose rap group, Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch, has just released its first album, Music for the People. "It just wasn't my thing. I don't sing, for one,"—he raps—"and I was 13 and I didn't want to be cooped up in a studio, I wanted to be a kid. I don't have any regrets about leaving that group." Asked what older brother Donnie was up to, Mark dropped a bomblet: "I think he's gonna go solo—there's been talk. Then it could be all him instead of the other Kids, because their styles are so different from his. I think he's planning on doing that."
SHOOTING OFF
Rock and roll ghoul Alice Cooper is amused by the elevated status of younger glam bands. "I love the high heels," says Cooper, 43, whose new album is Hey Stoopid. "I know how difficult it is to wear those things. L.A.'s got a very healthy crop of glam bands. They all look like early Alice Cooper." How does Cooper cope with competition? "We're trying harder now. I look at these guys who are 25, and I go out of my way to blow them off the stage, just to show them they have a long way to go. I've got to periodically put on my guns and show them different."
THOUGHT FOR FOOD
"I'm in my ninth month of pregnancy, and it's been quite a ride," says Elizabeth Perkins, 29, who stars in The Doctor. "[Director] Maurice Phillips is the father. I've been much healthier since being pregnant, not so much by choice, but because you simply can't not be healthy when you're pregnant. If you don't eat well, you'll just get sick to your stomach. Actually, I'd be lying if I said I haven't had any alcohol, because occasionally I've been drinking Guinness [ale], an age-old remedy in England for morning sickness." That's not all she has been consuming. "My craving, my 'pickles and ice cream' downfall, has been baloney sandwiches on white bread with mayonnaise, which at least has the attraction of making anyone else who happens to be around me nauseous as well."
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