ER doctor Goran Visnjic diagnosed himself with cabin fever after his long hours on the NBC drama's set. "When you're spending all of your days on Stage 11, it feels compressed inside, a little too tight," says the Croatian actor, explaining why he traveled to Lake Tahoe to play a reluctant blackmailer in the new big-screen drama The Deep End. Still, Visnjic, 38, couldn't escape his day job, since his character was required to perform CPR. "We were worried it would be some unwanted comic relief," he says, adding that there was nothing funny about filming the scene: "The problem when you're doing fake CPR is that you must not use real pressure because you can kill somebody. It's actually easier to do it in real life than it is to fake it."
Diapered Diva
His new comedy Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back boasts cameos by stars like Chris Rock, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Shannen Doherty, but actor-director Kevin Smith got the most diva-ish behavior from his own daughter Harley Quinn. "She was the worst actor I've ever worked with," says Smith, 31, who cast her to play the toddler version of his man-of-few-words character Silent Bob. "We said, 'Action,' and she starts bawling her head off, like she wants to get out of the stroller in a big way. I just wanted to scream, 'You're supposed to be Silent Bob! The key word is silent!' But you can't really communicate that to an under-2-year-old." As for the psychological ramifications of her switching genders and sharing a role with her father, Smith says, "I fully expect she'll be doing some therapy by the time she's 12."
A la Mode
Two years after his sexual liaison with a dessert product in American Pie, Jason Biggs is having pastry problems. "I'm still never able to order pie without the server giving me a little smirk or going back to the kitchen and saying, 'Oh my God, the pie guy just ordered a piece of apple pie!' " says Biggs, 23. Consequently, when the time came for the inevitable sequel, this summer's American Pie 2, he says, "I think there was an understanding among everybody that there weren't going to be baked goods or any food this time around." Biggs rejoined the original cast (including Mena Suvari, Tara Reid and Chris Klein) for the sequel, although he jokes that the atmosphere was a little different because everyone had become so famous. "Yeah, everyone's got a big ego now," he says. "Even our egos have their own entourages."
Resisting Temptation
She holds nothing back as Ray Romano's nagging mother on Everybody Loves Raymond, and Doris Roberts is just as opinionated about her sitcom's TV competition. "I am amazed at young people who are buying into all of these reality shows. If that's their taste, I think they're in trouble," says Roberts, 75, who reserves her strongest criticism for FOX's Temptation Island: "If you bring women in for sexual favors with men and men for sexual favors with women, I think they're called hookers." In fact, the only reality show that passes muster with Roberts is Raymond, where the cast and crew's real-life exploits are often turned into plots on the show. "It's all based on somebody's experience, including the [episode] that I backed my car into the house," says Roberts (who, for the third straight year, is up for a best supporting actress Emmy for her role). "It happened to one of the writer's cousins. So on-set I don't tend to talk too loudly."
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
