Ego Check
"There is nothing so awful as a self-absorbed thirtysomething woman," says Rachel Griffiths (Hilary and Jackie), who plays one—a magazine writer—in the new romantic comedy Me Myself I. "It's all about the Fendi handbags." But men, she theorizes, don't have the same egotistic issues. "They play sports, so it's not so much about themselves," says Griffiths, 31. "Well, it is, but indirectly." Besides, she adds, "thirtysomething career men aren't so much into [worrying], 'My bum looks too big.' "

No Sir
Elton John has. Anthony Hopkins has. Paul McCartney has. But veteran British actor Albert Finney, whose career has spanned over four decades, has not yet received a knighthood from the Queen. Not that he's one to stand on ceremony anyway. "Call me Sir if you like!" says Finney, 63, who costars with Julia Roberts in the hit drama Erin Brockovich. "Maybe people in America think [being a] Sir is a big deal. But I think we should all be misters together. I think the Sir thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery. And it also helps keep us 'quaint,' which I'm not a great fan of. You don't get much with the title anymore. That was all carved up by the robber barons in the Middle Ages."

Aging Gracefully
In the time-traveling thriller Frequency, opening April 28, Dennis Quaid plays a firefighter who teams up with his policeman son to catch a serial killer. The actor had to age 30 years for the role, which bounces from 1969 to 1999. "It's pretty amazing because it takes three hours, you sort of fall asleep, then you look up and you're 30 years older," says Quaid, 46. "It's a bit of a shock." Not that the actor suffered any major vanity attacks while sitting in the makeup chair. "What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No," he says, adding, "I think I look great with liver spots."

By the Horns
Although Australian actor Russell Crowe has starred in such films as L.A. Confidential, The Insider and the period drama Gladiator, opening May 5, he insists he hasn't gone Hollywood. In fact, he still maintains his primary residence on a 560-acre ranch located in the bush north of Sydney. "I need a bit of space. It's imperative," says Crowe, 36. "I get up in the morning and check out the cows. Of course that's a half day's walk. It's the things I do outside acting that fuel my art. If I spent my whole life living in Hollywood, I would be a lesser man. I wouldn't know about life. I think many people in show business are slightly out of touch with reality. For me, it's all about my bull---- detector. I want to go back to my farm and visit that kind of bull."

The Show Must Go On
Latin crooner Enrique Iglesias will share the stage with Sting, the Backstreet Boys, D'Angelo, Tom Jones and others in VH1 's Men Strike Back concert, airing April 18. The show is a masculine response to the music network's popular Divas series. But Iglesias, 24, whose CD Enrique has gone platinum, doesn't want anyone to get the wrong idea. "If there's one thing I'm not, it's a diva," he says. "You can't call a guy a diva, can you? A divo, maybe." Certainly, though, Iglesias has earned a reputation as a heartthrob, often prompting female fans to rush the stage during his concerts. "I can't stop performing, I have to keep going," he says. "If it was one of my favorite singers, I would do the exact same thing."