Mobbed!
Since winning a Best Actress Emmy last year for her portrayal of Mafia wife Carmela Soprano on the HBO drama The Sopranos, Edie Falco has been feeling like a made woman. "Last month I'm walking my dog in New York, and a fire truck full of men pulls up screaming, 'Carmela! Carmela!' " says Falco, 36, whose series returns for its second season Jan. 16. "Every woman has this thing for firemen, so it was really exciting." But Falco, who is Italian-American, says that the role has made her an even bigger hit with her family. "To them," she says, "the only better thing than being on The Sopranos would be employment in a Godfather movie or if I was in the real Mob." On second thought, maybe The Sopranos is better: "This way I'm safely in the Mob."

Self-Therapy
To play a mental-hospital patient in the drama Girl, Interrupted, Winona Ryder probed the recesses of her past experience: When she was 19, she checked herself into a psychiatric ward for five days. "I didn't get anything from that place, I really didn't," says Ryder, 28, who was suffering from depression. "I went there and I was so tired, I just wanted to sleep. They didn't help me at all." In fact, the actress says she concluded that the only person who could really help her was herself. "What I learned is that no matter how rich you are, no matter how much you pay some hospital or doctor, they can't fix you," Ryder says. "They can't give you a pill or a secret answer to anything that's going to make you all better. You have to figure it out for yourself. I just had to either choose to move on or stay miserable. And I chose to move on."

I'm Not Worthy
Believe it—actors get starstruck too. Just ask William H. Macy. "It was Captain Kangaroo [Bob Keeshan] who put me over the top," says Macy, 49, who costars with Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore and Jason Robards, among others, in the drama Magnolia, "I was in an elevator, and he started talking. I recognized his voice, and I just went to pieces. I told Captain Kangaroo that I loved him. He looked at me very calmly in his Kangaroo way and said, 'Well, young man, that's very nice.' " At least Captain Kangaroo wasn't caught in the buff. "Once I was working out at a health club, and I noticed James Taylor buck naked right near me in the locker room," Macy says. "I couldn't talk to him because he didn't have a stitch on. It just didn't seem like an appropriate moment to say, 'I really love your stuff.' "

That's Not Entertainment!
Although this month Sigourney Weaver appears in two films, the sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest and the rural drama A Map of the World, the actress says she actually prefers being a stay-at-home mom. "I'm lucky I don't have some high-powered job in which I have to work constantly, because I really like staying home with my daughter," says Weaver, referring to Charlotte, 9, her child with theater-director husband Jim Simpson, "She's wonderful company." And while both her parents are in showbiz, so far Charlotte has entertained no such aspirations. "She'll do odd jobs like sweeping up my husband's theater for a few dollars," says Weaver, 50. "But she's not interested in my movies. I tried to show her Gorillas in the Mist, but she found it boring. She said, 'Can I watch cartoons instead?' "