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Moviegoers are seeing less of John Travolta in his thriller Swordfish than they're used to. But it's not the part that's smaller, it's the actor. "I've lost 40 lbs.," says Travolta, 47. "I've been exercising and cutting my [portions] in half. It's easy to eat what you want, but just half. It worked, and I can still eat cheeseburgers." But the leaner actor isn't ready to follow the lead of costar Halle Berry, who has a nude scene in Swordfish. "They would have to up the ante," says Travolta, who, on second thought, admits he wouldn't disrobe for money. "I would probably just bask in the offer and then probably not do it."
Ready to Rock
She didn't win on Survivor last summer, but Jenna Lewis hopes to outwit, outplay and outlast her fellow castaways in the fame game. She's landed a job as the host of VH1's Rock Across America. "I try to act like I'm not thrown, but I really am," says Lewis, 23, who is spending her summer interviewing musicians on the video countdown and performance series, which begins its sixth season on June 30. "I'm still just the girl next door. These guys are huge to me." And fun: "You can't have a bad time when you're traveling around the country with rock stars and celebrities."
Czech-In Time
When it comes to keeping a secret, there's no place like Prague, at least for Julianna Margulies, who headed for Eastern Europe after filming her hush-hush reunion with George Clooney in her final appearance on ER last year. "It made it much easier for me, because I'm not good at keeping secrets. I get too excited," says Margulies, 35, who went to the Czech Republic to film The Mists of Avalon, a miniseries airing July 15 and 16 on TNT. The location also made Margulies wish she had real nursing skills. "It was a long shoot, and people were getting the flu and this and that. When [costar] Anjelica Huston noticed that I was the only one not getting sick, I made the mistake of saying, 'I was brought up on homeopathic medicine, I don't get sick,' " says Margulies, who ate her words that night when she came down with a nasty bout of food poisoning. "I opted to eat salmon carpaccio, which you really shouldn't do in a landlocked country."
Taking a Fall
"I like falling down and into walls," says Hannibal's Julianne Moore, 40, who turns up as a pratfall-prone scientist opposite David Duchovny in the comedy Evolution. "I like physical comedy. I know how to do it right. I learned it in acting school." Not everything got covered at Boston University's School of Fine Arts, however, like how to react when Duchovny presented her with a souvenir of his mooning scene in the film. "He gave me a Polaroid," she says.
You Should Have Heard the One That Got Away
Getting a hook on a suitable voice for a fish in the Eddie Murphy sequel Dr. Dolittle 2 wasn't an easy catch for Hal Sparks. "After all, how do fish talk?" says the former Talk Soup host, who currently costars on the Showtime series Queer as Folk. "But it's not like I'll be hearing, 'Excuse me, I've spoken to many fish, and they all have a southern English accent." Now, Sparks, 31, is having trouble getting out of his character's gills. "I feel that I understand fish better," he says. "My urge is to free all fish from aquariums. It's cruel and unusual punishment, never being able to leave your apartment. Plus, in the middle is a really annoying castle that you can't actually live in."
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