Actor Kyle MacLachlan, who joins the cast of Sex and the City when the HBO sitcom returns for its third season June 4, has been pumping up for his love scenes. "I'm doing one any day now," says MacLachlan, 41, who will be paired with Kristin Davis. "So, yes, I've been in the gym. I do want to look my best." Not that he expects the series will improve his real-life romantic prospects. "I know that none of the guys ever turn out good on that show," he says. "So I just hope that real women won't see me and go, 'Oh, there's that scumbag!' " Still, MacLachlan remains best known for playing coffee-crazed Special Agent Dale Cooper on the 1990-91 cult fave Twin Peaks. "Oh, you wouldn't believe it when I go into a diner," he says. "I still like getting the free coffee."
A Tough Audience
Although she is famous for playing all kinds of characters on her HBO series, Tracey Oilman takes on just one role, as Woody Allen's wife, in the director's latest film, Small Time Crooks. The British comedian says that limiting herself to only one personality takes effort. "Sometimes the kids say I'm 'on,' " says Ullman, 40, who has two children, Mabel, 14, and John, 8, with her husband, British TV producer Allan McKeown. "If I haven't worked for a while, I'll read them books at bedtime. I'll be reading Charlotte's Web and I'll do all the characters." But her performances haven't met with critical acclaim. Says Ullman: "They have both said, 'Mom, you don't have to put so much into it.' "
The Chan Plan
Asian action hero Jackie Chan, who made it big in America with the 1998 hit Rush Hour, had his doubts about costarring with fast-talking comedian Chris Tucker. "First time I meet Chris, he keep talking," says Chan, 46, who stars in the new adventure flick Shanghai Noon. "I call my manager and say, 'He don't shut up! And he talks so fast, I don't know what he's saying.' " But Chan, who will begin filming a Rush Hour sequel with Tucker this fall, is glad he hung in there. "Before Rush Hour I had many flops in America," he says. "So I insisted on the scene in Rush Wourwhere I'm hanging from a street sign on Hollywood Boulevard. It was my way of saying, 'It's all or nothing.' "
Following Suit
Former Baywatch beauty Carmen Electra,
who costars in next month's horror spoof Scary Movie, has a few problems with being a sex symbol. "I was watching an HBO special the other night on real-life maximum-security-prison guys," says Electra, 28. "I glanced up, and my poster was in quite a few cells. I was screaming, 'Oh, no!' " But that's not the scariest thing that has happened to the actress in her career. "I never had my own name on a bathing suit on Baywatch," reveals Electra, who played Lani McKensie during the 1997-98 season. "I was always given one that said Pamela [Anderson Lee] or Yasmine [Bleeth]. I earned my own suit, at the end of the season, which I now have framed."
A Heavy Role
D.B. Sweeney says it wasn't easy getting in touch with his inner iguanodon when he gave voice to Disney's animated hit Dinosaur. In fact, he had trouble finding the right pitch for his character, Aladar. "They would remind me, 'Hey, give this more weight. You weigh about 65 tons,' " says Sweeney, 38, who spent three years in and out of the recording studio. Still, he feels fortunate that, unlike many of Disney's other animated films, Dinosaur's characters don't sing. "They talked about songs at one time," Sweeney says. "But I was hoping it wouldn't happen. I had a nightmare that they got Leo Sayer to sing my songs."
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